System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → product or service design (+5)

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
13
Of their industry
19%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 92% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 92% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 92% of instances
    then
  6. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Process
    Hiring
    in 92% of instances
    then
  8. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    then
  9. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances

Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.

Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Invariant 9
At least 90% have it
People1
Org structure
100%
13
Process4
Lead generation
92%
12
Product or service design
100%
13
Production or delivery
92%
12
Hiring
92%
12
Decisions4
Market and positioning
100%
13
Pricing
92%
12
Regulatory compliance
100%
13
Strategy and goals
100%
13
Variant 29
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Suppliers and partners
62%
8
Customer service and support
62%
8
Account management
23%
3
Process9
Customer onboarding
69%
9
Logistics and fulfilment
46%
6
Onboarding and training
46%
6
Learning and improvement
46%
6
Quality control
38%
5
Uptime and incidents
38%
5
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
31%
4
Evaluation and red-teaming
31%
4
Billing and invoicing
31%
4
Software3
Inference serving
54%
7
Integrations
54%
7
Subscription billing
23%
3
Data4
Data management
31%
4
Compute capacity
23%
3
Training data acquisition and licensing
23%
3
Reporting and dashboards
23%
3
Decisions10
Policies and culture
77%
10
Data protection and security assurance
77%
10
Usage pricing and metering
69%
9
Security and access
69%
9
Model release and versioning
54%
7
Performance and pay
46%
6
Health, safety and environment
46%
6
Governance and decision rights
46%
6
Usage policies and model documentation
38%
5
Contracts
31%
4
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Suppliers and partners5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 1000+ people8%
  • 201-500 people8%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 51-200 people8%
Region
  • United States38%
  • Canada8%
  • Japan8%
  • New York (US); also offices in London and San Francisco8%
  • North America8%
  • Remote-first; offices in Austin, San Francisco and London8%
Instances
The 13 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.