System Atlas

Product or service design → market and positioning → production or delivery → inference serving (+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
18
Of their industry
26%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 94% of instances
    information
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 94% of instances
    then
  4. Software
    Inference serving
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    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
Product or service design
94%
17
Production or delivery
94%
17
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 4 · Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 7 companies
  • Suppliers and partners6 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Compute capacity3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Inference serving3 findings
    Workaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 2 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
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription6%
Size
  • 201-500 people11%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States22%
  • San Francisco, United States17%
  • North America11%
  • San Francisco11%
  • Canada6%
  • Redwood City, California (HQ); offices in New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin and Singapore6%
Instances
The 18 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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