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Beyond the
AI Demo

The Enterprise Playbook from Idea to Production

Stop Piloting. Start Delivering.

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Beyond the AI Demo — The Enterprise Playbook from Idea to Production, by Vivek Jain

Stop Piloting. Start Delivering.

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FOLLOW AN IDEA

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RAG, MCP, approval, evaluation, operations, and the connections between them.

PUT IT INTO PRACTICE

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EXPLORE THE BOOK

Proposed chapter outline

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PART 01

Discover and justify

  1. 01The Enterprise AI Transformation Architect's MandateChapter 1 preview
  2. 02Finding and Prioritizing AI Use CasesIn development
  3. 03Understanding the Question Assistant Business ProblemIn development
  4. 04Business Case, Outcomes, Baseline and ROI HypothesisIn development

PART 02

Establish the foundations

  1. 05Data Readiness and Enterprise Information ArchitectureIn development
  2. 06Models, Prompts, and Context EngineeringIn development
  3. 07RAG: Retrieval, Evidence, Grounding, and EvaluationIn development
  4. 08Agents, MCP, A2A, Skills, and Their BoundariesIn development

PART 03

Architect a trustworthy solution

  1. 09Functional and Nonfunctional RequirementsIn development
  2. 10End-to-End Question Assistant Reference ArchitectureIn development
  3. 11Security, Identity, Privacy, Access, and AI GovernanceIn development
  4. 12Architecture Trade-offs: Models, Frameworks, Integration, and HostingIn development

PART 04

Build and validate

  1. 13Data Ingestion, Parsing, Chunking, and IndexingIn development
  2. 14Retrieval, Answer Generation, Evidence, and EvaluationIn development
  3. 15Tool Integration, MCP, and Human-in-the-Loop WorkflowsIn development
  4. 16Multi-Agent Coordination, A2A, and Alternative OrchestrationIn development

PART 05

Make it production-ready

  1. 17From Developer Laptop and Lovable to Render LabsIn development
  2. 18POC Testing, Evaluation, User Acceptance, and Release GatesIn development
  3. 19Promotion to AWS Production: CI/CD, LLMOps, and ObservabilityIn development
  4. 20Reliability, Security Operations, Cost Management, and Continuous ImprovementIn development

PART 06

Capture value and scale

  1. 21Adoption, Benefits Realization, and Measured ROIIn development
  2. 22Scaling the Pattern Across Enterprise Use Cases: The Architect's PlaybookIn development

ABOUT THIS EDITION

Experience, evidence,
and a working example.

This working edition draws on Vivek Jain’s three articles about retrieval, trust, and the agentic stack. Reported implementation decisions stay distinct from proposed architecture. The fictional Northstar and Orion records make the examples reproducible without exposing customer material.

The Evolution of RAG · Beyond RAG · The Agentic AI Stack

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Beyond the AI Demo — The Enterprise Playbook from Idea to Production, by Vivek Jain

Stop Piloting. Start Delivering.

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