System Atlas

Evaluation and red-teaming → product or service design → market and positioning → production or delivery

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
18
Of their industry
26%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Evaluation and red-teaming
    in 100% of instances
    information
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 94% 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
Sales
67%
12
Org structure
67%
12
Suppliers and partners
50%
9
Customer service and support
44%
8
Account management
22%
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.

  • 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
  • Quality control3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer service and support2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • service6%
Size
  • 201-500 people11%
  • 51-200 people11%
  • 501-1000 people6%
Region
  • United States22%
  • San Francisco11%
  • China6%
  • Japan6%
  • New York, NY6%
  • North America6%
Instances
The 18 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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