Market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design → model release and versioning (+2)
How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.
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
- 12
- Of their industry
- 18%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessLead generationin 92% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsModel release and versioningin 100% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsStrategy and goalsin 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
Hiring
75%
9
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
58%
7
Logistics and fulfilment
50%
6
Customer onboarding
42%
5
Uptime and incidents
42%
5
Evaluation and red-teaming
42%
5
Quality control
25%
3
Billing and invoicing
25%
3
Onboarding and training
25%
3
Learning and improvement
25%
3
Usage pricing and metering
67%
8
Regulatory compliance
67%
8
Data protection and security assurance
67%
8
Policies and culture
58%
7
Security and access
58%
7
Contracts
42%
5
Performance and pay
33%
4
Health, safety and environment
33%
4
Governance and decision rights
25%
3
Usage policies and model documentation
25%
3
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
- Sales4 findingsManual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
- Customer onboarding3 findingsDependency 3 · at 3 companies
- Training data acquisition and licensing3 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
- Compute capacity2 findingsBottleneck 2 · at 2 companies
- Logistics and fulfilment2 findingsManual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
- Usage policies and model documentation2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
- Regulatory compliance1 findingDependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Size
- 201-500 people25%
- 501-1000 people8%
Region
- United States25%
- North America17%
- Beijing, China8%
- Canada8%
- China8%
- New York (US); also offices in London and San Francisco8%
Instances
The 12 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.