System Atlas

Market and positioning → suppliers and partners → product or service design → 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
17
Of their industry
25%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 94% of instances
    work
  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
Usage pricing and metering
76%
13
Security and access
71%
12
Contracts
65%
11
Policies and culture
65%
11
Regulatory compliance
59%
10
Health, safety and environment
41%
7
Performance and pay
35%
6
Model release and versioning
29%
5
Usage policies and model documentation
29%
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 partners9 findings
    Dependency 9 · at 9 companies
  • Sales5 findings
    Manual hand-off 4 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Health, safety and environment3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Hiring2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Inference serving2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription12%
Size
  • 201-500 people12%
  • 51-200 people12%
Region
  • United States24%
  • North America12%
  • France6%
  • New York (US); also offices in London and San Francisco6%
  • Redwood City, California (HQ); offices in New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin and Singapore6%
  • Remote-first; offices in Austin, San Francisco and London6%
Instances
The 17 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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