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
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- PeopleSuppliers and partnersin 90% of instancesinformation
- ProcessProduct or service designin 90% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 90% of instancesthen
- DataCompute capacityin 100% of instancesmaterial
- ProcessPretraining and fine-tuning runsin 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
Inference serving
80%
8
Integrations
30%
3
Subscription billing
20%
2
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 findingsDependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
- Suppliers and partners4 findingsDependency 4 · at 4 companies
- Production or delivery3 findingsDependency 3 · at 3 companies
- Hiring3 findingsTacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
- Training data acquisition and licensing3 findingsDependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
- Health, safety and environment2 findingsDependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
- Inference serving2 findingsBottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
- Logistics and fulfilment2 findingsTacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
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.