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Capability spine

Arc 11 · AI Architect

Production AI Architecture and Technical Leadership

Integrate models, data, retrieval, tools, safety, reliability, economics, governance, and organizational ownership into durable platforms.

Exit capability: Lead an AI architecture decision from requirements through operations and governance.

Mapped lessons
7
Published now
1
Full-arc estimate
≈20 hours
Last edited
2026-08-11

Lesson sequence

Live units open into complete labs. Planned units stay visible to show the dependency path, but intentionally have no detail route.

  1. 01

    Design a Multi-Tenant AI Gateway

    Live

    Create one policy and observability boundary for provider routing, tenant isolation, budgets, fallback, and release evidence.

    Systems labAdvanced145 min estimateArtifact: Gateway architecture and capacity model

  2. 02

    Build, Buy, or Partner for AI Capability

    Planned

    Compare control, differentiation, switching cost, data rights, reliability, and total operating cost.

    Design reviewAdvanced105 min estimate

  3. 03

    Draw the AI Platform Boundaries

    Planned

    Decide what the platform standardizes and what product teams must continue to own.

    Design reviewAdvanced110 min estimate

  4. 04

    The Cost–Quality–Latency Operating Envelope

    Planned

    Use routing, caching, batching, model choice, and graceful degradation within explicit product constraints.

    Systems labAdvanced115 min estimate

  5. 05

    Governance as a Control Plane

    Planned

    Encode inventory, ownership, evidence, policy, approvals, and exceptions into shipping workflows.

    Systems labAdvanced110 min estimate

  6. 06

    Migrate a Production AI Stack Without a Flag Day

    Planned

    Dual-run, shadow, compare, canary, reconcile, and retire old paths with rollback intact.

    Design reviewAdvanced120 min estimate

  7. 07

    AI Architect Capstone: Defend the System

    Planned

    Produce and defend a complete architecture under changing scale, safety, cost, and organizational constraints.

    CapstoneAdvanced180 min estimateArtifact: Architecture review packet