Your AI System Is More Than the Model: What Production AI Architecture Actually Looks Like

A production AI system is rarely just: That architecture works well in a demo. SotaTek, we approach AI development from this broader systems perspective: the model is only one layer of the product, while data, application logic, integrations, security, evaluation, infrastructure, and observability determine whether that capability can actually work in production. The interesting engineering problems are usually somewhere between those boxes. A better starting point is: Consider an internal support assistant. But the real requirement may be: The model is only responsible for part of that workfl