Training data acquisition and licensing → pretraining and fine-tuning runs (information flow)
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
- 5
- Of their industry
- 36%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DataTraining data acquisition and licensingin 100% of instancesinformation
- ProcessPretraining and fine-tuning runsin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessLead generationin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 100% of instancesinformation
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 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
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
100%
5
Lead generation
100%
5
Product or service design
100%
5
Production or delivery
100%
5
Hiring
100%
5
Evaluation and red-teaming
80%
4
Logistics and fulfilment
40%
2
Billing and invoicing
40%
2
Proposals and quoting
20%
1
Quality control
20%
1
Customer onboarding
20%
1
Uptime and incidents
20%
1
Retention and renewal
20%
1
Management cadence
20%
1
Learning and improvement
20%
1
Model release and versioning
80%
4
Strategy and goals
80%
4
Pricing
60%
3
Regulatory compliance
60%
3
Contracts
40%
2
Policies and culture
40%
2
Usage pricing and metering
40%
2
Security and access
40%
2
Licences and registrations
40%
2
Health, safety and environment
40%
2
Governance and decision rights
40%
2
Usage policies and model documentation
40%
2
Performance and pay
20%
1
Data protection and security assurance
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.
- Training data acquisition and licensing4 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
- Production or delivery2 findingsBottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
- Lead generation2 findingsDependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
- Suppliers and partners2 findingsDependency 2 · at 2 companies
- Communication tools1 findingTacit rule 1 · at 1 company
- Customer onboarding1 findingDependency 1 · at 1 company
- Health, safety and environment1 findingWorkaround 1 · at 1 company
- Inference serving1 findingWorkaround 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product20%
Size
- 11-50 people20%
- 201-500 people20%
Region
- Germany / United States20%
- San Francisco20%
- United States20%
- United States (founded in the US); team distributed across Europe and North America20%
- United States (Silicon Valley, California; Pennsylvania) and India (Bengaluru)20%
Instances
The 5 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.