System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → production or delivery → security and access (+1)

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
19
Of their industry
28%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    work
  3. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Security and access
    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
Process2
Product or service design
95%
18
Production or delivery
100%
19
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
19
Security and access
100%
19
Data protection and security assurance
100%
19
Variant 31
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Suppliers and partners
63%
12
Org structure
63%
12
Customer service and support
58%
11
Account management
42%
8
Process9
Hiring
74%
14
Customer onboarding
58%
11
Uptime and incidents
53%
10
Onboarding and training
47%
9
Logistics and fulfilment
42%
8
Evaluation and red-teaming
42%
8
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
37%
7
Learning and improvement
32%
6
Quality control
21%
4
Software3
Inference serving
63%
12
Integrations
63%
12
Subscription billing
26%
5
Data4
Inventory and assets
32%
6
Compute capacity
32%
6
Training data acquisition and licensing
21%
4
Data management
21%
4
Decisions11
Regulatory compliance
79%
15
Pricing
68%
13
Usage pricing and metering
68%
13
Strategy and goals
68%
13
Policies and culture
63%
12
Contracts
47%
9
Model release and versioning
37%
7
Performance and pay
37%
7
Health, safety and environment
37%
7
Governance and decision rights
26%
5
Usage policies and model documentation
21%
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 partners6 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 3 · 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
  • Data protection and security assurance2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Policies and culture2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription11%
  • service5%
Size
  • 201-500 people11%
  • 51-200 people11%
  • 501-1000 people5%
Region
  • United States26%
  • North America11%
  • Canada5%
  • France5%
  • New York, NY5%
  • Redwood City, California (HQ); offices in New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin and Singapore5%
Instances
The 19 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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