Wardley Maps
Strategic maps visualising value chains and evolution patterns.
Table of contents
MAP: API Monetisation
| Status | MAPS: Continuous Improvement |
| Date | 2024-06-03 |
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Strategic Wardley Map analysing the API monetisation landscape, mapping components from user needs through to infrastructure. Explores evolution of payment gateways, usage metering, developer portals, and API management platforms to identify opportunities for differentiation and commoditisation trends.
MAP: Prompt Engineering
| Status | MAPS: Continuous Improvement |
| Date | 2023-01-05 |
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Comprehensive Wardley Map of the prompt engineering ecosystem, visualising the value chain from end-user applications through prompt design, chain orchestration, embeddings, and foundation models. Maps the evolution of prompt templates, few-shot learning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
MAP: Tokenizers
| Status | MAPS: Continuous Improvement |
| Date | 2024-05-16 |
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Wardley Map exploring the tokenization layer in LLM architectures, mapping components including byte-pair encoding (BPE), SentencePiece, tiktoken, and specialised tokenizers. Analyses evolution from custom implementations toward standardised, commoditised tokenization services and their impact on model interoperability.