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Standard architecture: Foundation model developers

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Standard architectureThe parts at least half of the organizations in Foundation model developers have, as many as 11 of them run all together. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
11
Of their industry
55%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 82% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
    in 55% of instances
    work
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 73% of instances
    then
  6. People
    Org structure
    in 73% of instances
    then
  7. Process
    Hiring
    in 82% of instances
    then
  8. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 91% of instances

Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.

Structure
GroupsLayersEverything
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Market and positioning
91%
10
Strategy and goals
91%
10
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Training data acquisition and licensing4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Lead generation2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Sales2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product9%
Size
  • 1000+ people27%
  • 201-500 people27%
  • 51-200 people9%
Region
  • United States27%
  • China9%
  • France9%
  • Japan9%
  • North America9%
  • San Francisco9%
Instances
The 11 companies it was seen at
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Variants, couplings and instances

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