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
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessPretraining and fine-tuning runsin 100% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduct or service designin 95% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 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
Org structure
74%
14
Suppliers and partners
63%
12
Sales
53%
10
Customer service and support
37%
7
Account management
26%
5
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
Compute capacity
53%
10
Training data acquisition and licensing
53%
10
Cash and treasury
26%
5
Inventory and assets
21%
4
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 findingsDependency 6 · at 6 companies
- Sales5 findingsBottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
- Training data acquisition and licensing5 findingsDependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
- Compute capacity4 findingsDependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
- Production or delivery4 findingsDependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
- Health, safety and environment4 findingsWorkaround 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
- Hiring3 findingsTacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
- Inference serving3 findingsWorkaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
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.