Reference Architecture for Team AI Productivity

Patterns for building enterprise grade AI web chat portals

Let’s discuss a sample reference architecture for providing a secure and convenient way for your organization to chat with pre-approved AI capabilities.

Previously in this series we discussed Website RAG Chat and Developer AI Productivity reference architectures. Those architectures are valid and helpful for delivering rich AI capabilities to your customers and developer team, but what about the rest of your organization?

In this article we’ll lay out a reference architecture that allows different members of your organization to safely enhance their workflows through AI, and do so with the knowledge that organizational data is being handled securely and intellectual property is being respected.

While this architecture could work using a variety of different technologies, specific examples and screenshots will feature the popular Open WebUI conversational AI platform.

Use cases

You may not immediately think that providing a team-wide AI system would be extremely helpful, but when we unveiled our “Chat EDJE” conversational AI solution at Leading EDJE we noticed some immediate and profound impacts on our teams for all types of users.

While developers were excited about these capabilities and took advantage of them for complex tasks like working on improving SQL performance by…