System Atlas

Market and positioning → pretraining and fine-tuning runs → product or service design → production or delivery

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
19
Of their industry
28%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
    in 100% of instances
    work
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    work
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 95% 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 4
At least 90% have it
Process3
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
100%
19
Product or service design
95%
18
Production or delivery
95%
18
Decisions1
Market and positioning
100%
19
Variant 34
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People5
Org structure
74%
14
Suppliers and partners
63%
12
Sales
53%
10
Customer service and support
37%
7
Account management
26%
5
Process10
Lead generation
74%
14
Hiring
68%
13
Evaluation and red-teaming
53%
10
Uptime and incidents
42%
8
Logistics and fulfilment
37%
7
Customer onboarding
37%
7
Quality control
26%
5
Billing and invoicing
26%
5
Onboarding and training
26%
5
Learning and improvement
26%
5
Software3
Inference serving
63%
12
Integrations
32%
6
Subscription billing
21%
4
Data4
Compute capacity
53%
10
Training data acquisition and licensing
53%
10
Cash and treasury
26%
5
Inventory and assets
21%
4
Decisions12
Strategy and goals
74%
14
Pricing
63%
12
Regulatory compliance
53%
10
Health, safety and environment
53%
10
Model release and versioning
47%
9
Policies and culture
47%
9
Usage pricing and metering
47%
9
Security and access
47%
9
Data protection and security assurance
47%
9
Contracts
37%
7
Usage policies and model documentation
37%
7
Performance and pay
26%
5
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
    Bottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing5 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
  • Compute capacity4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Workaround 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Inference serving3 findings
    Workaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product5%
  • service5%
  • subscription5%
Size
  • 201-500 people21%
  • 51-200 people11%
  • 11-50 people5%
  • 501-1000 people5%
Region
  • United States16%
  • North America11%
  • San Francisco, United States11%
  • China5%
  • Germany / United States5%
  • Japan5%
Instances
The 19 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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