System Atlas

Lead generation → product or service design → market and positioning → production or delivery (+1)

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
23
Of their industry
34%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Lead generation
    in 91% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 96% of instances
    information
  3. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 96% of instances
    then
  5. Software
    Inference serving
    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
People4
Org structure
70%
16
Customer service and support
61%
14
Suppliers and partners
57%
13
Account management
35%
8
Process9
Customer onboarding
65%
15
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
52%
12
Uptime and incidents
43%
10
Evaluation and red-teaming
43%
10
Logistics and fulfilment
39%
9
Onboarding and training
39%
9
Learning and improvement
35%
8
Billing and invoicing
30%
7
Quality control
26%
6
Software2
Integrations
39%
9
Subscription billing
26%
6
Data3
Compute capacity
48%
11
Inventory and assets
35%
8
Training data acquisition and licensing
30%
7
Decisions13
Pricing
78%
18
Strategy and goals
78%
18
Data protection and security assurance
78%
18
Policies and culture
70%
16
Usage pricing and metering
70%
16
Security and access
61%
14
Regulatory compliance
57%
13
Health, safety and environment
52%
12
Contracts
43%
10
Model release and versioning
39%
9
Performance and pay
39%
9
Usage policies and model documentation
30%
7
Governance and decision rights
22%
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.

  • Suppliers and partners7 findings
    Dependency 7 · at 7 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Workaround 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Compute capacity3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Inference serving3 findings
    Workaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product4%
  • subscription4%
Size
  • 201-500 people13%
  • 51-200 people9%
  • 11-50 people4%
Region
  • United States26%
  • San Francisco, United States13%
  • North America9%
  • San Francisco9%
  • Canada4%
  • Germany / United States4%
Instances
The 23 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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