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AIDF Platform Documentation

Comprehensive reference for the Centific AI Data Foundry (AIDF) — an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and managing enterprise AI solutions. Covers all six sessions of the February 2026 training.

  • New here?

    Start with the hands-on walkthrough that takes you from zero to a running pipeline.

    First Steps →

  • Building an AI Service?

    Full code tutorial: from the abstract contract to a deployed classifier.

    Tutorial →

  • Managing infrastructure?

    Workspaces, projects, service deployment, and pipeline templates.

    Infra Hub →

  • Developer reference?

    Folder structure, strategy pattern, manifest, Docker, and onboarding.

    Developer Guide →


Platform Overview

The AI Data Foundry (AIDF) is Centific's end-to-end platform for accelerating the development, deployment, and management of AI solutions. It serves as a comprehensive AI workflow orchestration environment that integrates data, models, and applications into one unified framework.

AIDF's core purpose is to streamline every step of AI development — from high-quality data curation and preparation to model training, fine-tuning, and deployment — all under a single platform.

Modular Architecture

AIDF is designed with a modular, plugin-based architecture. Each component (called a "studio") is responsible for a different aspect of the AI lifecycle. The design allows teams to mix and match tools for specific use cases and scale independently.

The platform leverages Kubernetes-based orchestration and containerization to deploy AI services at scale. Each AI function is packaged as an "AI Service" — a self-contained, deployable microservice exposing a standard HTTP endpoint.

Six Core Modules

Module Role
Data Hub Enterprise data catalog and metadata store. Manages data lineage, annotations, and human-in-the-loop tasks.
AI Workbench Model catalog and development environment for benchmarking, fine-tuning, training, and governance.
GenAI Studio Pipeline builder and AI services management hub. Orchestrates multi-step workflows with drag-and-drop.
Agent Workbench Build, import, validate, and monitor agentic LLM workflows for business process automation.
Infra Hub Infrastructure provisioning engine — manages workspaces, projects, compute, and AI service deployment.
GenBI Natural-language cognitive analytics layer. Ask plain-English questions against structured data.

Business Value

  • End-to-end efficiency: Covers every stage (ingestion, prep, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring) under one platform. Includes 100+ pre-configured AI workflow templates.
  • Quality of outcomes: Emphasizes high-quality data, model validation, RLHF feedback loops, integrated benchmarking, and drift monitoring.
  • Scalability & flexibility: Cloud-native microservice architecture handles multimodal AI workloads (vision, language, speech) in real-time. Infrastructure-agnostic across public cloud, private data centers, and edge devices.
  • Reuse & collaboration: Pipeline templates created by one team can be reused and scheduled for automated execution by others.

Training Sessions

The AIDF platform training consisted of 6 sessions held February 3–11, 2026. Sessions 1–3 covered functional aspects; Sessions 4–6 covered technical deep-dives.

Session Date Theme Summary
1 Feb 3 Functional Platform Introduction & Data Hub. Presenter Avinash Ganesh introduced all AIDF modules. Deep-dive into Data Hub, GenAI Studio pipeline builder with the Isaac Snapdragon pre-annotation pipeline example.
2 Feb 4 Functional AI Workbench in depth: model benchmarking, fine-tuning jobs, evaluation reports, AI Governance (Atlas/NIST AI RMF frameworks).
3 Feb 5 Functional Agent Workbench: live demo of MUFG corporate customer onboarding LangGraph workflow. Infra Hub: workspace/project management, compute sizing.
4 Feb 9 Technical AI Service creation: folder structure, Strategy Design Pattern, config management, manifest.xml, Docker basics.
5 Feb 10 Technical Model onboarding & fine-tuning: training vs. inference services, compute offloading (RunPod/Denvr/Azure), MLFlow. Microsoft Phi-4 reference walkthrough.
6 Feb 11 Technical Pipeline template creation in GenAI Studio, conditional branching, environment promotion (Dev → QA → Staging → Prod).