System Atlas

Product or service design → market and positioning → hiring → health, safety and environment

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

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
    Product or service design
    in 93% of instances
    information
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Health, safety and environment
    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
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
Process2
Product or service design
93%
14
Hiring
100%
15
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
15
Health, safety and environment
100%
15
Variant 32
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Org structure
73%
11
Customer service and support
60%
9
Suppliers and partners
53%
8
Account management
40%
6
Process9
Customer onboarding
53%
8
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
53%
8
Evaluation and red-teaming
47%
7
Learning and improvement
47%
7
Quality control
40%
6
Uptime and incidents
40%
6
Onboarding and training
40%
6
Logistics and fulfilment
33%
5
Billing and invoicing
33%
5
Software3
Inference serving
73%
11
Integrations
47%
7
Subscription billing
27%
4
Data4
Compute capacity
40%
6
Training data acquisition and licensing
27%
4
Data management
20%
3
Legal and contracts administration
20%
3
Decisions12
Policies and culture
80%
12
Strategy and goals
80%
12
Pricing
73%
11
Usage pricing and metering
67%
10
Data protection and security assurance
67%
10
Performance and pay
53%
8
Security and access
53%
8
Regulatory compliance
53%
8
Contracts
40%
6
Governance and decision rights
40%
6
Usage policies and model documentation
40%
6
Model release and versioning
33%
5
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.

  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 4 companies
  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Workaround 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Inference serving2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer service and support2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product7%
Size
  • 201-500 people13%
  • 51-200 people13%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 501-1000 people7%
Region
  • United States33%
  • North America13%
  • San Francisco, United States13%
  • Germany / United States7%
  • Japan7%
  • San Francisco7%
Instances
The 15 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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