Data & AI Foundations Services — the architecture at a glance.
The moving parts of a production deployment, from channels and orchestration to systems of record.
Model quality is capped by data quality.
Every stalled AI program traces back to the same root causes: knowledge lives in dozens of tools, entitlements aren't respected in retrieval, and integrations were built for humans, not agents. We close that gap with a reusable foundation.
- Knowledge is scatteredSharePoint, Confluence, ServiceNow, product docs, EHRs and CRMs — with no unified, permission-aware retrieval layer.
- Retrieval ignores entitlementsNaive RAG surfaces content users shouldn't see. Enterprise retrieval must respect role, region, tenant and record-level ACLs.
- Integrations aren't agent-readySystems of record expose human UIs, not scoped, idempotent, auditable tool calls for AI agents to use safely.
A reusable foundation across every AI use case.
Data readiness, retrieval, integrations and quality — engineered once, reused everywhere.
Inventory of sources, quality, lineage, sensitivity and access — with a prioritized remediation plan tied to use cases.
Ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking and evaluation — with entitlement-aware retrieval.
Managed vector databases (pgvector, OpenSearch, Pinecone, Azure AI Search) and hybrid retrieval patterns proven at enterprise scale.
Scoped, permissioned tool APIs for CRM, EHR, ERP, ITSM, CCaaS and internal systems — designed for AI agent consumption.
Golden records for customer, member, provider, patient and product — the identity backbone agents rely on.
Freshness, drift, PII, redaction and lineage monitoring — with alerting into your existing data platform.
The data and AI foundation architecture.
The platform layer every AI use case depends on — ingestion, governance, features and serving, built once and reused.
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Consumption & AI workloads
Copilots, agents, analytics and ML services consuming governed data products through a single serving contract.
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Semantic & feature layer
Shared metrics, entities and features with lineage, so the same definition of customer, claim or order is used everywhere.
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Lakehouse & storage
Bronze, silver and gold zones on Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric or native cloud storage with schema evolution and time travel.
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Ingestion & integration
Batch, CDC and streaming pipelines from ERP, CRM, contact-center and operational systems, with contract tests and quality gates.
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Source systems
Operational systems of record — unchanged, integrated rather than migrated.
A six-step model, from assessment to managed operations.
Every engagement follows the same rhythm — so business, IT and delivery stay aligned from opportunity to outcome.
Source inventory, data quality, entitlements, gaps.
Retrieval architecture, connectors, MDM strategy.
One flagship use case on the new foundation.
Ingestion, vector store, connectors, observability.
Onboard additional use cases, teams and domains.
Managed ops — freshness, evals, connector health.
Use cases already in production with enterprise clients.
One governed retrieval layer across every business unit instead of five parallel builds.
Scoped tool APIs for Salesforce, ServiceNow, Epic, SAP and Workday — with auth, audit and idempotency built in.
Entity-resolved golden records that ground agent decisions in the right record every time.
Ownership, review cycles and freshness SLAs for the content agents rely on.
Pronix service lines
Industries where this ships fastest
- Healthcare Providers
- Health Payers
- Financial Services
- Insurance
- Retail & Ecommerce
- BPO
How Data & AI Foundations engagements are bought, supported and staffed.
Most enterprises start with an assessment, move into a fixed-scope build, keep it running under managed support, and add data and retrieval engineers where their own team is short. All four can run together under one commercial agreement.
Assessment and roadmap
A bounded Data & AI Foundations assessment: current-state review, prioritized use cases, target architecture, business case and a sequenced delivery roadmap.
Fixed price · 2–4 weeks typical
Fixed-scope build
A defined Data & AI Foundations implementation — architecture, build, integration, testing, evaluation and a documented production release against agreed acceptance criteria.
Fixed price · 8–16 weeks typical
Managed run and support
Monthly operations for Data & AI Foundations in production: release management, integration monitoring, configuration changes, model and agent evaluation and incident response under one SLA.
Monthly service tier · 24×7 coverage available
Staff augmentation
Data and retrieval engineers, solution architects and delivery leads embedded in your team, reporting to your delivery manager.
Monthly per person · typically live in 2–4 weeks
Programs are led from our Plainsboro, New Jersey headquarters and delivered with our Hyderabad global delivery center, plus London and Dubai for EMEA and Middle East clients.
Business-hours support in your time zone as standard, follow-the-sun 24×7 for production contact center and agentic workloads, with named escalation and monthly service reviews.
Questions buyers ask us first.
- Do we need a new data platform?
- Usually no. We build the retrieval and integration layer on top of your existing Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric or cloud data warehouse — not around it.
- How is this different from a data lake project?
- This is retrieval and integration engineered for AI agents — permission-aware, latency-bound, and evaluated continuously. A lake stores data; this makes data usable by agents.
- Which vector database do you recommend?
- Choice is per workload. We routinely deploy pgvector, OpenSearch, Pinecone and Azure AI Search — selected on latency, scale, cost and existing footprint.
- How do you handle entitlements?
- Retrieval enforces the source-system ACLs at query time — user, role, region, tenant and record-level — with full audit trace.
- How is a Data & AI Foundations engagement priced?
- A data readiness assessment and first retrieval domain are quoted as a fixed fee against defined sources and connectors; ongoing platform operations run as a monthly managed-service tier, and embedded data engineers are billed at a monthly rate per person.
- How long until the foundation is ready for a first AI use case?
- Most programs get a first flagship use case running on the new foundation in 8 to 12 weeks: assessment and architecture, then ingestion, connector build and entitlement enforcement for that use case's sources.
- How does this differ from your enterprise RAG service?
- Data & AI Foundations builds the underlying ingestion, entitlement and connector layer across all sources and use cases; enterprise RAG builds the retrieval, ranking and citation experience on top of that layer for a specific knowledge domain.
- Should we build this foundation in-house instead of using a partner?
- In-house teams can build connectors and pipelines, but entitlement-aware retrieval and agent-ready APIs are easy to get wrong the first time; we bring patterns already proven across clients so the foundation doesn't need to be rebuilt once security review finds the gaps.
- What does managed support for the data foundation include?
- Managed support covers connector health monitoring, freshness and drift checks, entitlement audits and incident response under a documented SLA, with business-hours coverage as standard and 24x7 available for production-critical connectors.
- Where is your data engineering team based and how are they staffed?
- Data and retrieval engineers are staffed at a monthly rate per person with a standard notice period, delivered from our Plainsboro, New Jersey headquarters, Hyderabad global delivery center, London and Dubai.
How we work
Engagement models that fit your program — advisory, build, run, or embedded pods.
pronix.ai is the AI & CX systems integrator practice of Pronix Inc.
One accountable delivery model: US-based architecture and program leadership with global engineering pods running 24×7 build, cutover and hypercare.
- Founded
- 2010 · Pronix Inc
- Headquarters
- 666 Plainsboro Rd, Suite 1361, Plainsboro, NJ 08536
- Delivery centers
- United States · India (Hyderabad) · EMEA
- Engagement model
- Fixed-scope implementation, managed run, staff augmentation and T&M Agile Teams.
Certifications
- AWS Certified (Solutions Architect, Developer)
- Amazon Connect specialty
- Genesys Cloud CX certified
- NICE CXone certified
- Salesforce certified (Service Cloud, Agentforce)
- Microsoft Azure AI certified
Partner tiers
- AWS — Advanced Partner · Generative AI Competency Partner
- Microsoft — Gold partner
- Kore.ai — Reseller and Strategic Implementation Partner
- Genesys — Implementation partner
- NICE CXone — Implementation partner
- Five9 — Channel partner and Implementation partner
- Salesforce — Consulting partner
- Google Cloud — Select partner
- OpenAI — Select partner
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