Market and positioning → lead generation → sales → pricing (+10)
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 100% of instancesinformation
- PeopleSalesin 90% of instancesthen
- DecisionsPricingin 90% of instancesthen
- PeopleSuppliers and partnersin 100% of instancesinformation
- ProcessProduct or service designin 90% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 100% of instancesthen
- SoftwareInference servingin 100% of instancesthen
- PeopleOrg structurein 90% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 90% of instancesthen
- DecisionsUsage pricing and meteringin 90% of instancesthen
- DecisionsSecurity and accessin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsStrategy and goalsin 90% of instancesthen
- DecisionsData protection and security assurancein 90% 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
Uptime and incidents
80%
8
Customer onboarding
60%
6
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
60%
6
Logistics and fulfilment
50%
5
Evaluation and red-teaming
50%
5
Onboarding and training
40%
4
Learning and improvement
40%
4
Billing and invoicing
20%
2
Compute capacity
60%
6
Inventory and assets
50%
5
Training data acquisition and licensing
30%
3
Data management
30%
3
Legal and contracts administration
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 partners6 findingsDependency 6 · at 6 companies
- Sales4 findingsManual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
- Customer service and support3 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
- Customer onboarding2 findingsDependency 2 · at 2 companies
- Production or delivery2 findingsDependency 2 · at 2 companies
- Health, safety and environment2 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
- Training data acquisition and licensing2 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
- Usage policies and model documentation2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- subscription10%
Size
- 201-500 people20%
- 51-200 people20%
Region
- United States40%
- North America20%
- Redwood City, California (HQ); offices in New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin and Singapore10%
- 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.