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
Compute capacity
53%
10
Training data acquisition and licensing
53%
10
Cash and treasury
26%
5
Inventory and assets
21%
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 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.