System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → contracts (+2)

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

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
21
Of their industry
24%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Contracts
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    work
  6. Process
    Production or delivery
    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
Policies and culture
76%
16
Security and access
71%
15
Regulatory compliance
62%
13
Usage pricing and metering
52%
11
Data protection and security assurance
43%
9
Performance and pay
38%
8
Health, safety and environment
38%
8
Governance and decision rights
33%
7
Model release and versioning
29%
6
Security certifications and audits
29%
6
Usage policies and model documentation
29%
6
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 partners7 findings
    Dependency 7 · at 7 companies
  • Procurement4 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · Dependency 2 · at 3 companies
  • Health, safety and environment3 findings
    Workaround 2 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
  • Contracts2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Uptime and incident response2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Inference serving2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product5%
  • subscription5%
Size
  • 201-500 people14%
  • 11-50 people10%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States48%
  • Beijing, China5%
  • Germany / United States5%
  • London, England5%
  • New York (US); also offices in London and San Francisco5%
  • New York, NY5%
Instances
The 21 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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