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.
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New here?
Start with the hands-on walkthrough that takes you from zero to a running pipeline.
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Building an AI Service?
Full code tutorial: from the abstract contract to a deployed classifier.
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Managing infrastructure?
Workspaces, projects, service deployment, and pipeline templates.
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Developer reference?
Folder structure, strategy pattern, manifest, Docker, and onboarding.
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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). |