System Atlas

Lead generation → evaluation and red-teaming → product or service design → market and positioning (+2)

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
15
Of their industry
22%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Evaluation and red-teaming
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Process
    Hiring
    in 93% 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
Customer onboarding
47%
7
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
47%
7
Quality control
40%
6
Uptime and incidents
40%
6
Logistics and fulfilment
33%
5
Onboarding and training
27%
4
Learning and improvement
20%
3
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Sales6 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 6 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Lead generation3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
  • Quality control3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 201-500 people13%
  • 51-200 people13%
Region
  • United States27%
  • San Francisco13%
  • Japan7%
  • New York, NY7%
  • North America7%
  • United States (founded in the US); team distributed across Europe and North America7%
Instances
The 15 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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