System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design → model release and versioning (+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
13
Of their industry
19%
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 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Model release and versioning
    in 100% of instances
    information
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    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 5
At least 90% have it
Process3
Lead generation
100%
13
Product or service design
100%
13
Production or delivery
100%
13
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
13
Model release and versioning
100%
13
Variant 31
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Org structure
77%
10
Sales
62%
8
Suppliers and partners
54%
7
Customer service and support
38%
5
Process10
Hiring
77%
10
Logistics and fulfilment
54%
7
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
54%
7
Customer onboarding
46%
6
Uptime and incidents
38%
5
Evaluation and red-teaming
31%
4
Billing and invoicing
31%
4
Learning and improvement
31%
4
Quality control
23%
3
Onboarding and training
23%
3
Software3
Inference serving
69%
9
Integrations
31%
4
Subscription billing
23%
3
Data3
Training data acquisition and licensing
38%
5
Compute capacity
31%
4
Inventory and assets
23%
3
Decisions11
Pricing
77%
10
Regulatory compliance
69%
9
Data protection and security assurance
69%
9
Policies and culture
62%
8
Usage pricing and metering
62%
8
Security and access
62%
8
Contracts
46%
6
Health, safety and environment
38%
5
Performance and pay
31%
4
Governance and decision rights
31%
4
Usage policies and model documentation
31%
4
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 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Sales5 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product8%
Size
  • 201-500 people23%
  • 11-50 people8%
Region
  • United States23%
  • North America15%
  • Beijing, China8%
  • Canada8%
  • Germany / United States8%
  • New York (US); also offices in London and San Francisco8%
Instances
The 13 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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