System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners → logistics and fulfilment (+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
10
Of their industry
15%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Logistics and fulfilment
    in 100% of instances
    control
  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
People1
Suppliers and partners
100%
10
Process3
Product or service design
100%
10
Logistics and fulfilment
100%
10
Production or delivery
100%
10
Decisions1
Market and positioning
100%
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.

  • Sales6 findings
    Manual hand-off 4 · Dependency 2 · at 5 companies
  • Suppliers and partners5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 201-500 people20%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 51-200 people10%
Region
  • North America20%
  • United States20%
  • China10%
  • Remote-first; offices in Austin, San Francisco and London10%
  • San Francisco, CA10%
  • San Francisco, California10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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