Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → product or service design (+1)
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 10 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 16
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 94% of instancesmoney
- ProcessLead generationin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsPricingin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 94% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 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
Hiring
63%
10
Customer onboarding
50%
8
Logistics and fulfilment
44%
7
Billing and invoicing
38%
6
Proposals and quoting
31%
5
Quality control
31%
5
Learning and improvement
25%
4
Customer data
44%
7
Reporting and dashboards
38%
6
Legal and contracts administration
38%
6
Inventory and assets
25%
4
Data management
25%
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.
- Pricing5 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
- Sales5 findingsManual hand-off 4 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
- Production or delivery3 findingsDependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
- Suppliers and partners2 findingsDependency 2 · at 2 companies
- Billing and invoicing1 findingManual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
- Customer onboarding1 findingDependency 1 · at 1 company
- Hiring1 findingDependency 1 · at 1 company
- Integrations1 findingDependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
- Machine learning and AI developer tooling19%
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers19%
- Foundation model developers13%
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers13%
- B2B SaaS6%
- Cloud and GPU compute providers6%
Business model
- product38%
- subscription31%
- asset6%
- service6%
Size
- 11-50 people13%
- 201-500 people13%
Region
- United States31%
- Canada6%
- Germany / United States6%
- India6%
- Los Angeles, California, United States6%
- New Zealand6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.