System Atlas

Standard architecture: Artificial intelligence

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

Standard architectureThe parts at least half of the organizations in Artificial intelligence have, as many as 5 of them run all together. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
5
Of their industry
38%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    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 2
At least 90% have it
Process1
Product or service design
100%
5
Decisions1
Market and positioning
100%
5
Variant 32
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Suppliers and partners
80%
4
Org structure
60%
3
Sales
40%
2
Customer service and support
20%
1
Process9
Production or delivery
80%
4
Lead generation
40%
2
Customer onboarding
40%
2
Hiring
40%
2
Engineering delivery
20%
1
Releases and change communication
20%
1
Billing and invoicing
20%
1
Payments and payables
20%
1
Learning and improvement
20%
1
Software3
Integrations
40%
2
Accounting and close
20%
1
Communication tools
20%
1
Data7
Reporting and dashboards
40%
2
Data management
40%
2
Legal and contracts administration
40%
2
Inventory and assets
20%
1
Customer data
20%
1
Cash and treasury
20%
1
Cloud and hosting costs
20%
1
Decisions9
Strategy and goals
80%
4
Governance and decision rights
80%
4
Data protection and security assurance
60%
3
Pricing
40%
2
Contracts
40%
2
Security and access
40%
2
Regulatory compliance
40%
2
Performance and pay
20%
1
Policies and culture
20%
1
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.

  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer data1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Data protection and security assurance1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Suppliers and partners1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product40%
  • service20%
  • subscription20%
Size
  • 1-10 people20%
  • 1000+ people20%
  • 201-500 people20%
Region
  • United States60%
  • France20%
Instances
The 5 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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