AI cloud architecture

The architecture that holds production AI up.

Corbel Labs helps teams take AI from a promising demo to a dependable system: cloud platforms, LLM and agent workloads, and the cost, security and reliability work that keeps them standing under real load.

Works across
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • OpenAI & Anthropic APIs
  • Open-weight models

01 — Services

Where we take the load

Senior, hands-on architecture work. No hand-offs to a junior bench.

A

AI platform architecture

Landing zones, networking, identity and compute for AI workloads on AWS, Azure or GCP, designed to scale from the first model to the fiftieth.

B

LLM & agent systems

Retrieval, agents and tool use built for production: evaluation harnesses, guardrails, observability and fallbacks, not just a prompt and a prayer.

C

GPU & inference cost

Right-sizing, model routing, caching, batching and capacity planning so your unit economics hold up as usage grows.

D

MLOps & LLMOps

CI/CD for models and prompts, reproducible pipelines, versioning and rollout strategies your team can run without us.

E

Security & governance

Data boundaries, access control, audit trails and threat modeling for AI systems, mapped to the compliance regime you actually operate under.

F

Architecture review

An independent look at what you have and what you're planning, with a written assessment and a prioritized path forward.

02 — Approach

Built to be handed over

Every engagement ends with a system your team understands, owns and can extend.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Understand the business goal, the current stack, the constraints and where the real risk sits.

  2. 02

    Design

    A reference architecture with clear trade-offs, cost models and decision records, reviewed with your engineers.

  3. 03

    Build

    Infrastructure as code, working pipelines and production-grade services, built alongside your team.

  4. 04

    Hand off

    Runbooks, documentation and knowledge transfer, so the structure stands without us holding it.

03 — Engagements

Ways to work together

2–3 weeks · fixed scope

Architecture Review

A focused assessment of an existing or planned AI system. You get a written report, a risk register and a prioritized roadmap.

  • Stakeholder & engineering interviews
  • Cost, security & reliability review
  • Target-state architecture

Monthly · retainer

Fractional Architect

Ongoing senior guidance for teams that need an AI cloud architect on call but not full time.

  • Design reviews & decision records
  • Vendor & model selection
  • Hiring & team uplift

04 — About

Why “Corbel”

A corbel is the bracket that juts from a wall to carry the weight above it. It isn't the part anyone photographs, but nothing stands without it.

Corbel Labs is an independent AI cloud architecture practice led by a senior AI cloud architect with deep experience designing, securing and operating AI workloads on the major cloud platforms. We work directly with engineering and product leaders, from early-stage teams shipping their first AI feature to enterprises bringing models into regulated production.

The work is the unglamorous, load-bearing kind: getting the architecture right so the interesting parts can stay up.

05 — Contact

Have something that needs to hold weight?

Tell us what you're building. We'll reply within one business day.

hello@corbellabs.dev