Reference architectures

Reference Architecture 01

Secure Private AI Knowledge Platform

A controlled RAG and local-inference pattern for organizations that need internal knowledge access without sending source data to third-party model providers.

Finance9 technologiesIllustrative design
System flowHD / REF-01
  1. 01
    Internal knowledge sources

    Approved documents and business systems enter through controlled connectors.

  2. 02
    Retrieval and policy layer

    Content is processed, indexed and filtered according to access rules.

  3. 03
    Private inference cluster

    Local models run on organization-controlled GPU infrastructure.

  4. 04
    Secure employee applications

    Authenticated interfaces expose grounded answers and traceable sources.

Illustrative reference design: This is not a customer case study and does not describe a deployed client system.

Design goal

Give authorized teams a private way to search internal knowledge and use language models while keeping source documents, indexes and inference workloads inside a controlled environment.

System flow

  1. Approved connectors ingest documents from internal repositories and line-of-business systems.
  2. A processing layer classifies, chunks and indexes content with its access metadata intact.
  3. The retrieval service selects permitted context for each request and passes it to a locally hosted model.
  4. An authenticated application returns the generated response together with the source references used to construct it.
  5. Operational telemetry records service health and model infrastructure signals without copying document content into the monitoring stack.

Security boundary

The retrieval index, object storage and model-serving layer sit inside the organization’s network boundary. Identity, authorization, encryption, audit logging and egress controls are designed as part of the platform rather than added after deployment.

Operational model

Containerized services allow the retrieval, application and inference tiers to be updated independently. GPU capacity, index freshness, request health and infrastructure utilization can be monitored through a shared observability layer.

Technology map

One possible implementation stack.

  • 01vLLM
  • 02Ollama
  • 03NVIDIA
  • 04Qdrant
  • 05PostgreSQL
  • 06MinIO
  • 07Kubernetes
  • 08Prometheus
  • 09Grafana

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