System Atlas

Lead generation → product or service design → market and positioning → production or delivery (+1)

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
25
Of their industry
37%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 96% of instances
    information
  3. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Data protection and security assurance
    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 5
At least 90% have it
Process3
Lead generation
100%
25
Product or service design
96%
24
Production or delivery
100%
25
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
25
Data protection and security assurance
100%
25
Variant 28
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Org structure
64%
16
Suppliers and partners
56%
14
Customer service and support
56%
14
Account management
36%
9
Process8
Customer onboarding
64%
16
Onboarding and training
44%
11
Uptime and incidents
40%
10
Evaluation and red-teaming
40%
10
Logistics and fulfilment
36%
9
Learning and improvement
32%
8
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
28%
7
Quality control
24%
6
Software2
Inference serving
68%
17
Integrations
56%
14
Data2
Compute capacity
32%
8
Inventory and assets
28%
7
Decisions12
Strategy and goals
80%
20
Pricing
72%
18
Policies and culture
72%
18
Security and access
68%
17
Usage pricing and metering
64%
16
Regulatory compliance
60%
15
Contracts
44%
11
Health, safety and environment
44%
11
Model release and versioning
36%
9
Performance and pay
32%
8
Usage policies and model documentation
28%
7
Governance and decision rights
20%
5
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 partners8 findings
    Dependency 8 · at 8 companies
  • Customer onboarding6 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
  • Health, safety and environment3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Inference serving2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription4%
Size
  • 201-500 people8%
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 501-1000 people4%
Region
  • United States20%
  • North America8%
  • San Francisco, United States8%
  • Beijing, China4%
  • Canada4%
  • France4%
Instances
The 25 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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