The Enterprise GenAI Stack : Volume 1: Reference Architecture and Product Assessment, with the Regulated Financial-Services View
Overview
Most enterprise GenAI maps are shelves of product logos, and the logos move every quarter. This book sets a baseline instead: the enterprise GenAI stack as it stands at the start of Q4 2026, built from 2,602 logged sources, with its high-risk claims re-checked by two adversarial verifiers.
Volume 1 sets out a reference architecture for the enterprise GenAI stack, worked through for a regulated asset manager or financial-services firm: nine layers, from foundation models to evaluation, under a firm-owned control plane of eight components (gateway, guardrails, privacy, identity, configuration, FinOps, security and model risk). The layer and control chapters and the product assessments apply to any enterprise; each chapter has one section that applies the regulated financial-services lens.
The central argument is that the control plane a firm owns around its products is the architecture. Products change every quarter; accountability, controls and evidence are what last.
What is inside
- A reference architecture for regulated firms, layer by layer (L1 to L9) and control by control (C1 to C8)
- 144 products assessed on one rubric, with Strategic, Tactical and Experimental tiers and the conditions that attach to each
- Four reference stacks, a build-versus-buy view, lock-in by layer and an 18-month roadmap
- The EU AI Act, DORA, the UK critical third-party regime and model-risk rules applied to GenAI
- One worked example throughout: an agent drafting a fund's monthly attribution commentary, approved by a portfolio manager
Every claim is labelled as a verified fact, a reported fact, an architectural judgement, a recommendation or not publicly verified, and every fact traces to a dated source.
Who it is for: enterprise and solution architects, technology and risk leaders, and the engineers, compliance and audit teams who must make GenAI work inside a regulated firm.
Volume 2 re-reads the same stack for six further views: technology service providers, software product companies, start-ups, and the vendors who sell AI tools, agentic software-development tools and agents into the enterprise.
By Bing Zhang, a senior technology leader in global enterprise software engineering, who pioneered and directs an organisation's agentic transformation: a move to AI-native engineering and an agentic software-development lifecycle.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798164767648
- ISBN-10: 9798164767648
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.93 pounds
- Page Count: 378
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