System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design → org structure (+5)

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
11
Of their industry
16%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 91% of instances
    then
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 91% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Data protection and security assurance
    in 91% of instances
    information
  7. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    then
  8. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    information
  9. Software
    Integrations
    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 9
At least 90% have it
People2
Org structure
91%
10
Sales
100%
11
Process4
Lead generation
100%
11
Product or service design
91%
10
Hiring
100%
11
Production or delivery
100%
11
Software1
Integrations
100%
11
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
11
Data protection and security assurance
91%
10
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Suppliers and partners
73%
8
Account management
45%
5
Process8
Uptime and incidents
55%
6
Onboarding and training
45%
5
Learning and improvement
45%
5
Quality control
36%
4
Logistics and fulfilment
36%
4
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
36%
4
Evaluation and red-teaming
27%
3
Billing and invoicing
27%
3
Software2
Inference serving
64%
7
Subscription billing
27%
3
Data2
Compute capacity
27%
3
Data management
27%
3
Decisions7
Regulatory compliance
64%
7
Health, safety and environment
64%
7
Contracts
45%
5
Performance and pay
45%
5
Usage policies and model documentation
36%
4
Model release and versioning
27%
3
Governance and decision rights
27%
3
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 2 · at 6 companies
  • Health, safety and environment3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Inference serving2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Regulatory compliance1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Contracts1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription9%
Size
  • 51-200 people18%
  • 501-1000 people9%
Region
  • United States36%
  • North America9%
  • San Francisco, CA9%
  • San Francisco, United States9%
  • United Kingdom9%
Instances
The 11 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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