System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design → production or delivery (+4)

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
14
Of their industry
21%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 93% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 93% of instances
    work
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 93% of instances
    then
  5. Software
    Inference serving
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  8. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    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
Integrations
43%
6
Subscription billing
29%
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.

  • Sales7 findings
    Manual hand-off 5 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 7 companies
  • Suppliers and partners6 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Hiring2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription7%
Size
  • 201-500 people14%
  • 51-200 people14%
Region
  • United States36%
  • North America14%
  • San Francisco, United States14%
  • Canada7%
  • Remote-first; offices in Austin, San Francisco and London7%
  • San Francisco7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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