Reference Architectures

Enterprise AI Reference Architectures

End-to-end blueprints for enterprise agentic systems — each composes patterns and knowledge into a working architecture for a concrete use case, with a reference scenario, KPIs, cost & scaling characteristics, observed failure modes and lessons. Built for people and AI agents.

Customer experience

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Customer Service Agent

A reference architecture for an enterprise customer-service agent that resolves common requests end to end — answering from a grounded knowledge base, acting in the CRM and ticketing systems through tools, and escalating to a human when confidence is low or the action is high-impact. It pairs retrieval for grounding with risk-based human approval for safety, and is observable so every conversation can be evaluated and improved.

Knowledge & search

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Enterprise Knowledge Assistant

A reference architecture for an internal knowledge assistant that answers employee questions from the company's own documents — wikis, policies, tickets, code — with citations and respecting each user's access permissions. It combines hybrid retrieval and reranking for grounding, permission-aware filtering for security, and an evaluation harness so answer quality is measured rather than assumed. The hard parts are not the model; they are retrieval quality, access control and evaluation.

Sales

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Sales Copilot

A sales copilot is an agent that assists reps end to end: it researches accounts from CRM and product data, drafts personalized outreach and follow-ups, logs activity, surfaces next-best-actions, and prepares meeting briefs. Everything is grounded in the company's CRM, deal, and product knowledge to avoid hallucinated claims about features or pricing. The rep stays in control: a human-approval gate sits in front of any outbound action, so the agent drafts but never sends to a customer on its own. Success is measured honestly through rep productivity and pipeline impact, not vanity activity counts.

Operations

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Operations Center

An operations center is an agentic AIOps system that watches monitoring signals and alerts, correlates and triages them, diagnoses likely root cause, and executes only vetted runbook remediations — keeping destructive or novel actions behind human approval. It cuts alert fatigue and shortens mean time to resolution by automating safe, read-mostly diagnostics while escalating risky writes to on-call engineers. Every action is audited and reversible. Success is measured honestly with MTTR, false-action rate, and escalation precision, not by automation volume.

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Agentic Immune System

A reference architecture for running enterprise AI agents without concentrating trust in any one of them. Five layers — identity, least privilege, containment, oversight and recovery — assume that some agent will eventually be wrong or subverted, and make that event survivable instead of catastrophic. The unit of defence is the individual run, not the fleet.

AI workforce

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AI Workforce

An AI workforce is an orchestrated team of specialized agents that collaborate on multi-step business processes under a supervisor. The supervisor decomposes a goal, prioritizes and delegates subtasks to specialist agents (research, drafting, QA), and they share state through a common store. Agents escalate to humans when out of depth, and every step is observable and governed. Treat it as managing digital workers: success depends less on any single agent and more on coordination, clear ownership via an agent registry, human oversight, and evaluating the whole team rather than parts.