System Atlas

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
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 92% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Model release and versioning
    in 100% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    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
Invariant 6
At least 90% have it
Process3
Lead generation
92%
11
Product or service design
100%
12
Production or delivery
100%
12
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
12
Model release and versioning
100%
12
Strategy and goals
100%
12
Variant 29
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Suppliers and partners
67%
8
Sales
50%
6
Customer service and support
33%
4
Process10
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
Software3
Inference serving
58%
7
Integrations
33%
4
Subscription billing
25%
3
Data3
Compute capacity
42%
5
Training data acquisition and licensing
33%
4
Cash and treasury
25%
3
Decisions10
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 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Sales4 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · at 2 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Regulatory compliance1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
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.