System Atlas

Market and positioning → suppliers and partners → production or delivery → org structure (+1)

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
29
Of their industry
25%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    material
  3. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 93% of instances
    then
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. 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 5
At least 90% have it
People2
Suppliers and partners
100%
29
Org structure
100%
29
Process1
Production or delivery
93%
27
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
29
Strategy and goals
100%
29
Variant 35
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Sales
66%
19
Customer service and support
66%
19
Account management
31%
9
Site and operations engineers
21%
6
Process10
Customer onboarding
52%
15
Billing and invoicing
31%
9
Quality control
28%
8
Logistics and fulfilment
28%
8
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
28%
8
Learning and improvement
28%
8
Uptime and incidents
24%
7
Evaluation and red-teaming
24%
7
Uptime and incident response
24%
7
Procurement
21%
6
Software4
Inference serving
34%
10
Integrations
34%
10
Network and interconnection
21%
6
Usage metering and billing
21%
6
Data5
Inventory and assets
28%
8
Reporting and dashboards
24%
7
Compute capacity
21%
6
Cash and treasury
21%
6
Data management
21%
6
Decisions12
Policies and culture
76%
22
Pricing
69%
20
Security and access
69%
20
Contracts
55%
16
Regulatory compliance
55%
16
Performance and pay
38%
11
Data protection and security assurance
38%
11
Usage pricing and metering
31%
9
Governance and decision rights
31%
9
Model release and versioning
24%
7
Health, safety and environment
24%
7
Security certifications and audits
21%
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.

  • Suppliers and partners13 findings
    Dependency 13 · at 13 companies
  • Sales10 findings
    Manual hand-off 6 · Dependency 4 · at 9 companies
  • Production or delivery5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · at 5 companies
  • Customer onboarding4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Procurement4 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · Dependency 2 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Quality control3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • service3%
  • subscription3%
Size
  • 201-500 people14%
  • 1-10 people3%
  • 11-50 people3%
  • 501-1000 people3%
  • 51-200 people3%
Region
  • United States41%
  • North America7%
  • San Francisco, United States7%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL3%
  • France3%
  • London, England3%
Instances
The 29 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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