Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → pretraining and fine-tuning runs (+3)
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
- 10
- Of their industry
- 15%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessLead generationin 90% of instancesthen
- DecisionsPricingin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessPretraining and fine-tuning runsin 100% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduct or service designin 90% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 100% of instancesthen
- SoftwareInference servingin 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
Usage pricing and metering
80%
8
Contracts
70%
7
Health, safety and environment
70%
7
Strategy and goals
70%
7
Data protection and security assurance
70%
7
Policies and culture
60%
6
Security and access
60%
6
Regulatory compliance
60%
6
Usage policies and model documentation
60%
6
Model release and versioning
50%
5
Performance and pay
40%
4
Licences and registrations
20%
2
Governance and decision rights
20%
2
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 partners5 findingsDependency 5 · at 5 companies
- Health, safety and environment4 findingsWorkaround 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
- Sales4 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
- Production or delivery2 findingsDependency 2 · at 2 companies
- Inference serving2 findingsBottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
- Pricing2 findingsTacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
- Customer service and support2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
- Training data acquisition and licensing2 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product10%
- subscription10%
Size
- 201-500 people30%
- 11-50 people10%
- 51-200 people10%
Region
- United States30%
- North America20%
- Germany / United States10%
- San Francisco, United States10%
- United States (founded in the US); team distributed across Europe and North America10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.