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AI Solutioning Platform: Technical Architecture Overview 
Our platform is built on a modern, cloud-native microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and agility. The design separates the user experience from the complex AI backend, allowing for independent development and robust performance.

1. Frontend & API Gateway:
The user interacts with a responsive Single-Page Application (SPA). All communication is securely managed through a central API Gateway, which authenticates users and routes requests to the appropriate backend service.

2. Backend Microservices:
The core logic is a set of specialized services that work in concert:

Conversational AI Service: The "brain" that manages the user dialogue, leveraging our use case knowledge base.
Document Ingestion & RAG Service: Asynchronously processes uploaded documents. It uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to parse unstructured text (RFPs) and extracts data from structured files (Excel), making all information searchable and available to the AI.
Simulation & BOM Service: A powerful analytics engine that queries our integrated Intel product and performance database to generate optimized hardware configurations and Bills of Materials.
Supporting Services: Dedicated services handle user management, report generation, and the "Use Case Builder" functionality.
3. AI & Data Layers:
The platform's intelligence is powered by state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs). The knowledge base is stored in a multi-tiered data layer:

Object Storage (S3): Stores all raw documents and the library of use case definition files.
Relational Database (PostgreSQL/Aurora): Holds all structured data, including the Intel SKU catalog and project metrics.
Vector Database (OpenSearch/Pinecone): Enables fast, semantic search across all unstructured document content, powering the RAG capability.
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User: 
AI Solutioning Platform: Technical Architecture Overview 
Our platform is built on a modern, cloud-native microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and agility. The design separates the user experience from the complex AI backend, allowing for independent development and robust performance.

1. Frontend & API Gateway:
The user interacts with a responsive Single-Page Application (SPA). All communication is securely managed through a central API Gateway, which authenticates users and routes requests to the appropriate backend service.

2. Backend Microservices:
The core logic is a set of specialized services that work in concert:

Conversational AI Service: The "brain" that manages the user dialogue, leveraging our use case knowledge base.
Document Ingestion & RAG Service: Asynchronously processes uploaded documents. It uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to parse unstructured text (RFPs) and extracts data from structured files (Excel), making all information searchable and available to the AI.
Simulation & BOM Service: A powerful analytics engine that queries our integrated Intel product and performance database to generate optimized hardware configurations and Bills of Materials.
Supporting Services: Dedicated services handle user management, report generation, and the "Use Case Builder" functionality.
3. AI & Data Layers:
The platform's intelligence is powered by state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs). The knowledge base is stored in a multi-tiered data layer:

Object Storage (S3): Stores all raw documents and the library of use case definition files.
Relational Database (PostgreSQL/Aurora): Holds all structured data, including the Intel SKU catalog and project metrics.
Vector Database (OpenSearch/Pinecone): Enables fast, semantic search across all unstructured document content, powering the RAG capability.
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