CASE STUDIES

Selected client work

Engagement examples drawn from TaoQ AI's advisory practice across AI architecture review, AI risk assessment, and AI governance. Client names are withheld; technical detail is sanitised. For open-source work, publications, and academic background, see Research.

PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

Agentic layer for a managed enterprise AI platform

Since June 2026 路 Technology services, US 路 Agentic platform architecture

Business case

A US technology services company runs a managed AI platform for its enterprise clients. Each client gets its own isolated deployment. The platform is two years old; I joined in June 2026.

Its agents answer questions and take actions across email, chat, call notes, campaign metrics and CRM data. One client's data must never reach another client's agents.

Approach

I own the agentic layer. I design the architecture and ship code with the engineering teams.

I decided which agent actions run on their own and which wait for human approval. Each tool an agent can call has its own permission scope.

I designed per-client data isolation. Retrieval scoping and tenant boundaries keep one client's context out of another client's prompts.

I defined how the platform connects to each client's systems: an events API and the authentication model.

Agents connect through two open protocols: MCP, which gives agents access to tools and data sources, and A2A, which lets agents from different systems work together.

Deliverables

The platform runs in production for a global enterprise client. Each new client gets its own agents on the same shared core, in an isolated deployment.

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

Architecture and launch-readiness review for a personalised consumer AI assistant

2025 路 Consumer technology, UK 路 End-to-end architecture review

Business case

A pre-launch consumer AI product team needed an independent review of their retrieval-augmented assistant before opening a closed beta. The team had a working prototype and a launch timeline but limited confidence in retrieval quality, security posture, and regulatory readiness.

Approach

Reviewed the full system from ingestion through retrieval, ranking, generation, and response. Recommended a hybrid retrieval pipeline combining dense and BM25 search with reciprocal-rank fusion and cross-encoder reranking, a knowledge-base schema with consent and licensing metadata, threat modelling against agent and RAG-specific risks, reliability SLOs with stage budgets, and an evaluation harness with measurable launch acceptance bars.

Deliverables

Board-level review document and a phased four-month plan feeding the team's go/no-go process for closed beta.

Prior in-house work

Delivered as an employee rather than through TaoQ AI. It is here because it is the largest AI architecture I have taken end to end.

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Enterprise AI reference architecture at PostNL

October 2024 to August 2026 路 Logistics 路 Enterprise AI reference architecture

Earlier work: 2021 to 2023: I architected PostNL's serverless-first AWS cloud platform, which served 100+ teams across 1,000+ AWS accounts.

Business case

Lead AI Architect in PostNL's AI Centre of Excellence, October 2024 to August 2026. PostNL has 30,000 people and ran AI work across many teams. There was no shared architecture, so each team made its own choices.

Approach

I led the work on the enterprise AI reference architecture. It covered machine learning, generative and agentic AI, AI at the edge, MLOps and governance.

I defined the patterns teams build on: retrieval over company data, multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and model serving in the cloud and at the edge.

I set MLOps and LLMOps governance and software standards aligned with the EU AI Act.

I led three teams, covering prototyping, core technology and R&D, and adoption and governance. I worked directly with the CTO and principal engineers on technology strategy.

Deliverables

The reference architecture became the company-wide standard for AI, across more than 100 use cases.

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