AI
Enterprise AI · Designed to Production · Bengaluru, India
The AI
Architect
Prabhakar Gupta · 14+ Years · Bengaluru

Learn how enterprise AI is actually designed, built, and shipped —
RAG, Agents, Agentic AI, MCP, A2A, Azure AI Foundry, LLM Fine-tuning —
from real projects, real clients, with real money on the line.

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14+
Years Enterprise AI
₹10KCr
AUM systems built
8
Core modules
93%
Production accuracy
12+
Case studies
2×
New videos weekly
01 — Curriculum

Eight Production Modules

No tutorials. No toy examples. Eight production-grade modules from real enterprise deployments — including the new Azure AI Foundry and LLM Fine-tuning tracks.

01
Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG Systems
Production RAG — chunking, embeddings, vector DBs, hybrid search, reranking, evaluation. Why 95% of RAG demos fail and exactly how to fix them.
Naive RAG failure modesChunking strategiesHybrid BM25+VectorCross-encoder rerankingRAGAS evaluation
02
AI Agents
AI Agents
Agent architecture, tool calling, ReAct loops, memory systems, guardrails. How to build agents that don't hallucinate under real enterprise load.
Agent anatomyTool calling deep diveReAct + CoTMemory systemsGuardrails + evals
03
Multi-Agent Systems
Agentic AI
Multi-agent orchestration — supervisor patterns, swarm architectures, agent handoffs, state machines. Debugging distributed agents in enterprise.
Supervisor patternsLangGraph deep diveParallel executionFailure recovery
04
Model Context Protocol
MCP
MCP under the hood, building MCP servers, connecting LLMs to real data sources, enterprise auth. The USB-C of AI integrations.
MCP protocol specBuilding MCP serversEnterprise authCross-LLM compat
05
Agent to Agent
A2A Protocol
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol — cross-framework communication, Agent Cards, task delegation, streaming, enterprise topology design.
A2A spec deep diveAgent CardsCross-vendor agentsA2A vs MCP
06
Production Engineering
Ship to Prod
Full LLMOps stack — observability, latency budgets, cost optimisation, CI/CD for AI, testing strategies, incident response.
LLMOps foundationsDistributed tracingCost attributionCI/CD pipelines
07
New 2025
Microsoft Azure AI
Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry deep dive — model catalog, prompt flows, fine-tuning on Azure, deployment pipelines, safety & responsible AI at enterprise scale.
Azure AI FoundryModel catalogPrompt flowsAzure fine-tuningSafety layers
08
New 2025
LLM Fine-Tuning
Fine-Tuning LLMs
When to fine-tune vs prompt engineer, data preparation, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO, RLHF, evaluation, cost vs performance tradeoffs from real projects.
When to fine-tuneLoRA / QLoRADPO + RLHFData preparationEval + cost tradeoffs
Not sure where to start?
Follow the step-by-step roadmap — know exactly what to learn, what to read, and which projects to build.
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02 — Case Studies

Real Systems, Real Money

Not sanitised demos. Real architecture decisions, real failure modes, real production numbers from systems I personally built.

Case Study 01 · Finance
Hedge Fund AI Research System
₹10,000 Cr AUM · Multi-Asset · Real-time
A full AI research assistant for a mid-sized hedge fund. RAG over 200K+ financial documents, real-time market data integration, multi-agent portfolio analysis. The system that nearly failed at 2AM when RAG returned the wrong fund manager's portfolio — and how we fixed it permanently.
Architecture Components
RAG over 200K docsReal-time market feedMulti-agent analysispgvector + RedisGPT-4 + ClaudeLangGraph orchestration
93.5%
Query accuracy
41ms
Avg latency p50
78%
Cost reduction
Case Study 02 · Private Equity
PE Due Diligence AI Agent
3 Firms · 500+ deals/year · Document Intelligence
Autonomous due diligence pipeline for three PE firms. Agents extract, cross-reference, and synthesise data from CIMs, financial models, and legal documents. Reduced initial DD from 3 weeks to 4 hours — with higher accuracy than the manual process.
Architecture Components
Document intelligenceMulti-agent pipelineTable extractionFinancial model parsingContradiction detectionAudit trail
3wk→4h
DD time reduction
98.2%
Doc extraction acc
500+
Deals processed/yr
Case Study 03 · Azure AI Foundry
Bank Compliance LLM on Azure
Top-10 Indian Bank · Regulatory AI · Azure Foundry
Fine-tuned GPT-4 on Azure AI Foundry for RBI regulatory compliance analysis. Custom prompt flows, Azure Content Safety integration, audit logging to Azure Monitor. The fine-tuned model outperformed GPT-4 base on compliance tasks by 31 percentage points.
Stack
Azure AI FoundryGPT-4 fine-tuningPrompt flowsAzure Content SafetyAzure MonitorLoRA on custom data
+31pp
vs GPT-4 base
12K
Training examples
99.9%
Compliance rate
Case Study 04 · FinTech
Real-Time Risk Scoring Engine
Retail Lending · 50K decisions/day · Sub-second
LLM-augmented risk scoring for a retail lending platform. Hybrid model combining traditional ML risk scores with LLM narrative analysis of application text. Reduced bad loan rate by 23% while increasing approval volume — the killer combination.
Stack
Hybrid ML+LLMReal-time inferenceFeature storeExplainability layerSub-200ms SLAA/B testing
-23%
Bad loan rate
180ms
p99 latency
50K
Decisions/day
03 — Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

The enterprise-grade platform for building, fine-tuning, and deploying AI — and why it matters for production systems at scale.

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry · 2025
The Platform That Changes Enterprise AI Deployment
Azure AI Foundry unifies model access, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment into one governed, enterprise-grade platform. I've deployed production systems on it for banking clients — here's what actually matters vs what's marketing.
01
Model Catalog
Access GPT-4, Mistral, Llama, Phi — with SLA guarantees, data residency, and enterprise compliance built in. One endpoint to rule them all.
02
Prompt Flows
Visual pipeline builder for LLM workflows. Version-controlled, testable, deployable as APIs. The missing CI/CD layer for AI prompts.
03
Fine-Tuning
Supervised fine-tuning and LoRA on Azure-hosted models. Bring your training data, Foundry handles compute, checkpointing, and deployment.
04
Safety + Eval
Built-in content safety, groundedness detection, AOAI eval framework. Responsible AI not bolted on — baked in from day one.
Azure AI Foundry — LLM Fine-tuning Pipeline Live Diagram
04 — Animated Lessons

Watch It Come Alive

MP4-level animated architecture walkthroughs. Every concept step by step — particles, data flows, live diagrams. New: Azure Foundry and Fine-tuning tracks.

RAG Pipeline — Production Architecture
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05 — Architecture

Live Architecture Diagrams

Animated, production-grade. Watch real data flows in real enterprise stacks — including the new Azure AI Foundry pipeline.

Full RAG Production StackLive
Multi-Agent OrchestrationLive
Azure AI Foundry PipelineLive
LLM Fine-Tuning PipelineLive
06 — Key Concepts

Core Concepts

Vector Search
Semantic similarity over embedding space. HNSW, IVF, cosine distance. Why pure semantic search fails on structured financial data.
◈ RAG foundation
Chunking Strategy
Fixed vs semantic vs hierarchical. Overlap, parent-child retrieval. The single decision that determines 60% of RAG quality.
◈ RAG critical path
ReAct Loop
Reason-Act-Observe cycles. How agents think step by step, call tools, observe results, decide next actions. The fundamental loop.
◈ Agent core
Azure Prompt Flows
Visual LLM pipeline builder with version control, testing, and API deployment. The CI/CD layer that enterprise AI has always needed.
◈ Azure AI Foundry
LoRA Fine-Tuning
Low-Rank Adaptation — fine-tune 7B models on a single GPU. When to use LoRA vs QLoRA vs full fine-tune. Real cost vs performance numbers.
◈ Fine-tuning
MCP Protocol
Standardised tool exposure — resources, tools, prompts. Build once, run on any LLM. The USB-C of AI integrations.
◈ MCP foundation
Hybrid Search
Dense vector + sparse BM25 via RRF fusion. Why pure semantic search fails on structured data and how to combine them properly.
◈ RAG advanced
Agent Cards (A2A)
How agents advertise capabilities to other agents. The discovery mechanism of A2A — agents finding, negotiating, delegating autonomously.
◈ A2A protocol
DPO Alignment
Direct Preference Optimisation — aligning fine-tuned models to desired behaviour without RLHF complexity. When DPO beats PPO in enterprise.
◈ Fine-tuning advanced
LLM Observability
Tracing, logging, latency budgets, token cost attribution. Instrument production AI so you can debug what failed and prove ROI.
◈ Production ops
07 — E-Learning

Test Your Knowledge

Bite-sized quiz questions from real enterprise scenarios. Each question comes from a mistake I've seen teams make on production systems.

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Prabhakar Gupta
14+
Years Enterprise AI
₹10K Cr
AUM systems
Finance·PE·Bank
Verticals
Bengaluru
Based in India
08 — Instructor

Prabhakar Gupta

Principal AI Architect · AI Interviewer @ HirePro · @aiarchitectpbr

I've spent 14 years building AI systems that run on real money — hedge funds, private equity firms, banks across India and Asia. Not toy demos. Not proof-of-concepts that die in staging.

Systems processing millions of transactions, managing thousands of crores in assets, running 24/7 with SLAs that can't afford hallucinations. I've been in the incident call at 2AM when the RAG system returned the wrong fund manager's portfolio. I've debugged the agent stuck in a tool-calling loop on a live trading system.

On this platform, I teach the architecture decisions, failure modes, and production patterns — including the new Azure AI Foundry and LLM fine-tuning tracks that most practitioners are still figuring out.

2024 – Present
Principal AI Architect · AI Interviewer at HirePro
AI-powered interviewing at HirePro, plus RAG, agentic AI, Azure AI Foundry and fine-tuning for financial institutions across Asia.
2018 – 2024
Senior AI Engineer · Fintech
AI systems for hedge funds and PE firms — NLP, forecasting, document intelligence.
2012 – 2018
ML Engineer · Banking
Risk modelling, anomaly detection, regulatory automation across Indian banking.
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The gap between a working demo and a production system is where most teams fail 93.5% accuracy — because I obsessed over the 6.5% that was wrong Fine-tuning is not a shortcut. Data quality is everything MCP is what happens when someone finally treats AI integration as an engineering problem Every agent failure I've seen traces back to a missing termination condition The gap between a working demo and a production system is where most teams fail 93.5% accuracy — because I obsessed over the 6.5% that was wrong Fine-tuning is not a shortcut. Data quality is everything MCP is what happens when someone finally treats AI integration as an engineering problem Every agent failure I've seen traces back to a missing termination condition
10 — Enroll Now

Agentic AI Live Course

The only Agentic AI course taught by someone who has actually deployed multi-agent systems for hedge funds and banks — not someone who learned it from another YouTube video.

Live Cohort · Batch 01 · July 2026
Agentic AI:
From Zero to Production
8 Weeks · Live Sessions · Real Enterprise Projects · Certificate
Learn to design, build, and deploy multi-agent AI systems that actually work in production — not just on your laptop. Supervisor patterns, LangGraph orchestration, MCP integration, A2A protocol, evaluation frameworks, observability, cost control. Real projects from real enterprise deployments.
8 Weeks · 24 Live Sessions
Every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Lifetime recording access
Private community + direct mentorship
Certificate of completion
Max 50 students per batch
Batch 01 starts in:
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Days
14
Hours
32
Mins
00
Secs
₹27,999
₹14,999
Early Bird
Save ₹13,000
⚡ Only 12 seats remaining
✓ 7-day money-back guarantee  ·  ✓ EMI available  ·  ✓ Group discounts for 3+ from same company
What You'll Build Across 8 Weeks
Hedge Fund News Agent
Real-time news summarisation + portfolio impact scoring using RAG + ReAct
PE Due Diligence Bot
Multi-agent pipeline that reads CIMs and extracts risk factors in 4 hours vs 3 weeks
Compliance Checker
MCP-integrated agent that validates documents against RBI/SEBI regulations
Research Analyst
RAG agent over 50K financial documents with hybrid search and reranking
Multi-Vendor Agent Net
A2A protocol agent network across LangChain + CrewAI + custom agents
Production Dashboard
Full LLMOps observability: traces, costs, eval metrics, incident alerts
Reserve Your Seat
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Enroll
Reserve your seat. Get instant access to pre-course material and community.
02
Live Sessions
3 live sessions per week with Prabhakar. Real code, real systems, Q&A every session.
03
Build Projects
6 real enterprise projects across the 8 weeks. Code reviewed by Prabhakar personally.
04
Ship + Certify
Deploy your capstone to production. Certificate + LinkedIn recommendation from Prabhakar.
11 — Interview Prep

Crack the AI Interview

I build AI interviewers at HirePro and have sat on the hiring side of the table — these are the questions real companies ask in AI engineering interviews right now, and what they're actually listening for.

Q1Your RAG system retrieves the right documents but gives wrong answers. Debug it live.

RAG · What interviewers look for — They want a systematic process, not a guess: check the prompt assembly, chunk boundaries, context ordering, and whether the model is synthesising across conflicting passages. Candidates who jump straight to “use a better model” fail this one.

Q2How do you stop an agent looping infinitely in production?

Agents · What interviewers look for — Termination conditions as a design requirement: max steps, max tokens, wall-clock limits, loop detection on repeated tool calls, and a defined escalation path. Bonus points for alerting on near-limit runs, not just hard-stopping them.

Q3Design document Q&A over 1 million compliance PDFs with per-user permissions.

System Design · What interviewers look for — The permission part is the trap — access control must be enforced at retrieval time, filtering by the caller’s entitlements before anything reaches the model. They also listen for chunking strategy, hybrid search, reranking, and index sync.

Q4Explain RAG vs fine-tuning to a non-technical stakeholder. When would you refuse to fine-tune?

Fundamentals · What interviewers look for — Communication is the real test. Strong answer: RAG injects knowledge, fine-tuning shapes behaviour — and you refuse to fine-tune on facts that change, on tiny noisy datasets, or when nobody can produce a held-out evaluation set.

Q5Your LLM bill doubled this month with no traffic increase. Investigate.

LLMOps · What interviewers look for — Attribution thinking: per-feature and per-step token tracking, retry loops, prompt or context growth from a recent change, a model routing regression. Candidates who can’t describe their cost dashboard reveal they’ve never run AI in production.

Q6Tell me about an AI feature you shipped that failed. What changed in how you build?

Behavioural · What interviewers look for — Honesty plus engineering maturity. They want a real failure, the detection story, and a systemic fix — usually an evaluation harness or guardrail that now exists because of it. “Nothing has failed” is the worst possible answer.

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Every course includes the complete interview question bank — 100+ real-market questions across RAG, agents, system design and LLMOps, with model answers and the evaluation rubric interviewers use. Career Switch students also get resume review and two mock interviews included.

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12 — Testimonials

What Students Say

From ML engineers at banks to independent AI consultants — real outcomes from real professionals.

★★★★★
"Prabhakar's RAG course changed how our team thinks about production AI. We went from 61% accuracy to 89% in 3 weeks by fixing our chunking strategy alone. The course paid for itself in the first project."
Rahul Sharma
Senior AI Engineer · ICICI Bank · Mumbai
★★★★★
"I've done Coursera, Udemy, every platform. This is the first course that teaches AI the way it actually works in enterprise. No toy datasets. No sanitised examples. Real systems, real failure modes. Worth 10x the price."
Priya Nair
ML Architect · Kotak AMC · Bengaluru
★★★★★
"The MCP + A2A module alone was worth the entire course fee. We implemented MCP servers for our internal tools and eliminated 3 separate LLM integrations. Our engineering team saved 6 weeks of integration work."
Arjun Mehta
Principal Engineer · Edelweiss Fin · Pune
★★★★★
"What sets Prabhakar apart: he tells you what went wrong, not just what worked. The 2AM incident story about the wrong portfolio being returned — that's the kind of honesty that makes you actually learn production engineering."
Sneha Iyer
AI Consultant · Independent · Chennai
★★★★★
"I came in as a Python developer with zero AI experience. 8 weeks later I deployed a multi-agent system for our compliance team that actually runs in production. Prabhakar's live code reviews are invaluable — he spots things no tutorial covers."
Mohammed Faisal
Software Engineer → AI Engineer · Yes Bank · Hyderabad
★★★★★
"The Azure AI Foundry + fine-tuning module gave me knowledge I couldn't find anywhere else in India. Deployed a compliance LLM for our RBI reporting workflow. The +31pp accuracy case study from the course was the exact blueprint I needed."
Kavitha Rajan
Data Science Lead · Bajaj Finserv · Mumbai
13 — Insights

Architecture Insights

Deep technical pieces from real production experience. No content marketing. No sponsored posts.

RAG · Production
Why 95% of RAG Demos Fail in Production
The gap between a notebook demo and a production RAG system is enormous. Here are the 7 failure modes I've seen repeatedly across enterprise deployments, and exactly how to fix them.
Read article →
Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry: The Honest Enterprise Review
After deploying a bank compliance system on Azure AI Foundry, here's what actually works, what's just marketing, and the gotchas nobody mentions in the official documentation.
Read article →
LLM Fine-Tuning
LoRA Fine-Tuning for Finance: Lessons from +31pp
How we fine-tuned GPT-4 on 12K RBI compliance examples to beat the base model by 31 percentage points. The data preparation decisions that made or broke the result.
Read article →
View All Insights →
14 — FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before enrolling. Still unsure? Course enquiries get a reply within 24 hours.

Q1Do I need prior AI or ML experience?

No ML background needed — if you're comfortable writing Python, you're ready. Week 1 builds agentic foundations from first principles, and several students have come in as pure software engineers and shipped production agents by week 8.

Q2What if I miss a live session?

Every session is recorded and you get lifetime access to all recordings. You can also post questions in the private community and get them answered in the next session's Q&A.

Q3What are the live session timings?

Live sessions run every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening (IST). Exact timings are shared with the cohort after enrollment. If you're outside India, recordings are available within hours of each session.

Q4How is this different from your free YouTube content?

YouTube teaches you the concepts. The course makes you build: six real enterprise projects, live code reviews of your work, direct mentorship, a capstone deployed to production, and a certificate. It's the difference between watching and shipping.

Q5How does the 7-day money-back guarantee work?

If the course isn't right for you, email within 7 days of the batch start date and you get a full refund — no questions asked, no forms to fill.

Q6Is EMI really available?

Yes — pay in 2 instalments of ₹7,999 or 3 instalments of ₹5,499. Select your preference in the enrollment form and you'll receive the payment schedule by email.

Q7Will I get a certificate?

Yes. Complete the capstone project and you receive a certificate of completion — plus a LinkedIn recommendation from Prabhakar for students who finish the full program.

Q8Do you offer corporate or group training?

Yes — 3+ enrollments from the same company get a group discount, and teams of 5+ can book a private cohort with a custom curriculum (RAG, Agents, Azure AI Foundry, fine-tuning), on-site or remote. Use the contact form below for a proposal.

15 — Contact

Get In Touch

Course enquiries, corporate training, or AI architecture consulting — reach out directly.

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Corporate Training
Private cohorts for teams of 5+. Custom curriculum covering RAG, Agents, Azure AI Foundry, Fine-tuning. On-site or remote. Mail for a custom proposal.
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