FDE CapstoneExpert~40h

Enterprise Knowledge Assistant

FDE capstone: ship an enterprise AI assistant end-to-end

Business problem

A large enterprise needs an internal AI assistant over policies, procedures and knowledge bases with strict access control, audit compliance, cost ceilings and gradual rollout.

Architecture

Gateway (auth + rate limit + cache) → query rewrite → hybrid retrieve (RBAC filter) → rerank → LLM → output guard → audit log.

Milestones

Track your progress through the project.

0 of 6 milestones complete

Acceptance criteria

RBAC never leaks restricted content to the model
Citations are accurate and verifiable
Audit log captures every query and answer
Cost ceiling met with caching + routing
Eval faithfulness > 0.85 on golden set
Rollout plan is gradual with rollback runbook

Deployment checklist

AuthN + AuthZ on every request
RBAC metadata filter verified by red team
Append-only audit log with 7-year retention
Cost dashboard + per-user budgets
Online eval sampling with drift alerts
Trace every query
Incident response runbook
Rollback procedure tested

Evaluation criteria

Architecture coherence
Security (RBAC, audit, guardrails)
Cost efficiency
Production readiness (observability, eval, runbooks)
Rollout plan quality
Customer communication