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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
7
Full-arc estimate
≈20 hours
Last edited
2026-09-27

Lesson sequence

Live units open into complete labs. Planned units stay visible to show the dependency path, but intentionally have no detail route. A withdrawn unit is retained only at its previously advertised URL and is not presented as live.

  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

    Live

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

    Design reviewAdvanced105 min estimateArtifact: AI capability sourcing decision record

  3. 03

    Draw the AI Platform Boundaries

    Live

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

    Design reviewAdvanced110 min estimateArtifact: AI platform boundary and ownership contract

  4. 04

    The Cost–Quality–Latency Operating Envelope

    Live

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

    Systems labAdvanced115 min estimateArtifact: Cost-quality-latency operating-envelope gate

  5. 05

    Governance as a Control Plane

    Live

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

    Systems labAdvanced110 min estimateArtifact: Governance control-plane release gate

  6. 06

    Migrate a Production AI Stack Without a Flag Day

    Live

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

    Design reviewAdvanced120 min estimateArtifact: Reversible AI stack migration plan

  7. 07

    AI Architect Capstone: Defend the System

    Live

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

    CapstoneAdvanced180 min estimateArtifact: AI architecture review packet