System Atlas

Org structure → market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design (+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
43
Of their industry
27%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 98% of instances
    money
  3. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 98% of instances
    money
  5. People
    Suppliers and partners
    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
People2
Org structure
100%
43
Suppliers and partners
100%
43
Process2
Lead generation
100%
43
Product or service design
98%
42
Decisions1
Market and positioning
98%
42
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Sales
53%
23
Customer service and support
49%
21
Account management
28%
12
Process5
Hiring
79%
34
Production or delivery
72%
31
Billing and invoicing
44%
19
Quality control
42%
18
Customer onboarding
37%
16
Software3
Integrations
42%
18
Inference serving
23%
10
Core system of record
21%
9
Data2
Customer data
44%
19
Reporting and dashboards
40%
17
Decisions8
Pricing
72%
31
Security and access
72%
31
Regulatory compliance
67%
29
Governance and decision rights
53%
23
Contracts
42%
18
Performance and pay
33%
14
Data protection and security assurance
26%
11
Usage pricing and metering
23%
10
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 partners17 findings
    Dependency 15 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 17 companies
  • Sales11 findings
    Manual hand-off 7 · Dependency 4 · at 10 companies
  • Production or delivery5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · at 5 companies
  • Customer onboarding4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • marketplace14%
  • product14%
  • subscription12%
Size
  • 1000+ people21%
  • 201-500 people12%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 501-1000 people5%
Region
  • United States51%
  • North America5%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL2%
  • China2%
  • France2%
Instances
The 43 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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