Reference architecture

A modular AI factory with a unified control plane.

Experience, orchestration, knowledge, action, trust, and evidence planes remain independently replaceable while sharing one accountable run model.

IntentUser or system objective
RetrieveRAG and source ranking
ReasonLLM and context assembly
ActAgent and MCP tools
ProtectPolicy and approvals
VerifyEvals and evidence
Deployment model

Six planes, one accountable run

01

Experience plane

Web, API, chat, workflow, and embedded interfaces.

02

Orchestration plane

Planning, routing, retries, state, budgets, and approvals.

03

Knowledge plane

Ingestion, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, citations, and freshness.

04

Action plane

MCP servers, APIs, databases, enterprise apps, and human tasks.

05

Trust plane

Identity, policy, data boundaries, guardrails, and release gates.

06

Evidence plane

Traces, evals, audit events, SLA, cost, and outcome metrics.