System Atlas

Market and positioning → org structure → hiring → strategy and goals (+3)

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
7
Of their industry
50%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Process
    Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
    in 100% of instances
    work
  7. Process
    Evaluation and red-teaming
    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
Market and positioning
100%
7
Strategy and goals
100%
7
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.

  • Training data acquisition and licensing4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 1 company
  • Sales2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Compute capacity1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Inference serving1 finding
    Workaround 1 · at 1 company
  • Product or service design1 finding
    Informal channel 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 201-500 people29%
  • 51-200 people14%
Region
  • Japan14%
  • North America14%
  • San Francisco14%
  • San Francisco, United States14%
  • United States14%
  • United States (founded in the US); team distributed across Europe and North America14%
Instances
The 7 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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