System Atlas

Market and positioning → suppliers and partners → product or service design → production or delivery (+2)

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
10
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 90% of instances
    information
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 90% of instances
    work
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 90% of instances
    then
  5. Data
    Compute capacity
    in 100% of instances
    material
  6. Process
    Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
    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
Suppliers and partners
90%
9
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.

  • Compute capacity4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Inference serving2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
  • Logistics and fulfilment2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription10%
Size
  • 201-500 people20%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 51-200 people10%
Region
  • San Francisco, United States20%
  • United States20%
  • China10%
  • North America10%
  • San Francisco, California10%
  • United States (founded in the US); team distributed across Europe and North America10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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