Market and positioning → org structure → strategy and goals → product or service design (+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
- 56
- Of their industry
- 4%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 91% of instancesthen
- PeopleOrg structurein 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsStrategy and goalsin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 95% 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
Integrations
32%
18
Inference serving
23%
13
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
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Entropy
Where it runs rough
Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.
- Sales17 findingsManual hand-off 9 · Dependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 16 companies
- Suppliers and partners16 findingsDependency 14 · Dependency (public record) 2 · at 16 companies
- Production or delivery9 findingsDependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 9 companies
- Customer onboarding5 findingsDependency 5 · at 5 companies
- Org structure5 findingsDependency 2 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
- Customer service and support5 findingsDependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
- Governance and decision rights4 findingsBottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
- Product or service design4 findingsBottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
- Cloud and GPU compute providers18%
- Machine learning and AI developer tooling18%
- Foundation model developers16%
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers11%
- AI applications and agents9%
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers7%
Business model
- product18%
- subscription7%
- asset2%
- marketplace2%
- service2%
Size
- 1000+ people13%
- 201-500 people9%
- 51-200 people9%
- 11-50 people7%
- 501-1000 people5%
- 1-10 people2%
Region
- United States43%
- France5%
- North America4%
- San Francisco, United States4%
- South Korea4%
- United Kingdom4%
Instances
The 56 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
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