Services

Senior Azure AI expertise, applied where it matters most.

Engagements range from a focused readiness assessment to production implementation and ongoing architecture leadership.

Core principle

Start with the business outcome. Choose the simplest architecture that satisfies the real security, data, and operating requirements.

01

Agent engineering

Enterprise AI agents

Design and build agents that reason over trusted knowledge, call approved tools, respect user permissions, and fit into existing applications and workflows.

  • Azure AI Foundry agents and Responses API patterns
  • Tool use, orchestration, routing, and human approval
  • Agent identity, Entra RBAC, secrets, and private networking
  • Evaluation, tracing, content safety, and operational guardrails
  • C#/.NET services and enterprise application integration
02

Knowledge systems

RAG, Foundry IQ & enterprise search

Create grounded AI experiences that retrieve the right content, cite it clearly, and preserve the access controls your business already depends on.

  • Azure AI Search indexing, chunking, vectors, and hybrid retrieval
  • Foundry IQ and knowledge-source architecture
  • SharePoint, Dataverse, databases, files, and API-based sources
  • Permission-aware retrieval and secure content boundaries
  • Answer quality evaluation and retrieval tuning
03

Cloud foundation

Azure AI architecture & platform engineering

Define the cloud, data, network, identity, and delivery foundation required to move AI from experimentation to an enterprise service.

  • Reference architectures and architecture decision records
  • Azure landing zones, subscriptions, policy, RBAC, and PIM
  • Managed identity, Key Vault, private endpoints, and DNS
  • Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, and environment promotion
  • Resilience, observability, cost controls, and runbooks
04

Advisory & leadership

Strategy, governance & fractional architecture

Give technical and business leaders a clear decision framework, a practical roadmap, and senior architecture support as the AI portfolio grows.

  • Use-case prioritization and AI portfolio planning
  • Architecture and vendor reviews
  • Responsible AI, governance, risk, and operating models
  • Team enablement, standards, and reusable patterns
  • Fractional Principal Azure AI Architect support

Ways to engage

Choose the smallest engagement that creates a useful decision or working result.

The ranges below are typical starting points. Final scope and pricing depend on complexity, data readiness, security requirements, and timeline.

Clarify the path

AI Readiness Assessment

$2,500–$7,500

Use-case review, current-state analysis, risks, target architecture, roadmap, and executive recommendations.

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Deliver the capability

Production Implementation

Custom scope

Production engineering, cloud foundation, integrations, IaC, CI/CD, testing, governance, and knowledge transfer.

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Add senior leadership

Fractional Azure AI Architect

$3,000+/month

Ongoing architecture guidance, standards, reviews, team enablement, and executive technical support.

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Not sure which engagement fits?

Start with the problem—not a package.

Describe what you are trying to accomplish, where you are stuck, and what a useful result would look like.

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