System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → sales → product or service design (+5)

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
25
Of their industry
21%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 92% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 92% of instances
    then
  6. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Process
    Hiring
    in 96% of instances
    then
  8. Decisions
    Security and access
    in 100% of instances
    then
  9. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 92% 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
People3
Suppliers and partners
72%
18
Account management
48%
12
Site and operations engineers
32%
8
Process12
Customer onboarding
72%
18
Billing and invoicing
40%
10
Learning and improvement
40%
10
Logistics and fulfilment
28%
7
Uptime and incidents
28%
7
Uptime and incident response
28%
7
Onboarding and training
28%
7
Proposals and quoting
24%
6
Quality control
24%
6
Procurement
20%
5
Capacity planning
20%
5
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
20%
5
Software4
Integrations
48%
12
Inference serving
36%
9
Usage metering and billing
36%
9
Network and interconnection
28%
7
Data3
Regions and availability zones
28%
7
Compute capacity
20%
5
Data management
20%
5
Decisions10
Contracts
64%
16
Regulatory compliance
64%
16
Performance and pay
44%
11
Usage pricing and metering
44%
11
Data protection and security assurance
44%
11
Security certifications and audits
36%
9
Governance and decision rights
32%
8
Health, safety and environment
28%
7
Model release and versioning
24%
6
Data residency and sovereignty
24%
6
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.

  • Sales14 findings
    Manual hand-off 9 · Dependency 5 · at 13 companies
  • Suppliers and partners9 findings
    Dependency 9 · at 9 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Procurement3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 2 companies
  • Contracts2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription4%
Size
  • 201-500 people12%
  • 51-200 people12%
  • 501-1000 people8%
Region
  • United States44%
  • France8%
  • North America8%
  • San Francisco, United States8%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • Canada4%
Instances
The 25 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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