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The AI App and Agent Factory

Azure AI Foundry

Somewhere in your organisation, AI development is already happening: possibly on a personal subscription, probably without evaluation or audit trails. We build Azure AI Foundry as the governed alternative, a platform where AI workloads ship with security, tracing and cost control from the first commit.

Azure OpenAI · Governance · Production

What is Azure AI Foundry?

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft's platform for building AI applications and agents properly: one environment for the model catalogue, prompt engineering, retrieval, evaluation, tracing and deployment, wrapped in the enterprise controls Azure is trusted for. It is the difference between AI development happening on a governed platform and AI development happening on someone's corporate card.

Our Foundry builds run Azure OpenAI models as the default engine, deployed regionally for data residency and routed per workload for cost and capability. The platform itself is engineered like everything else we ship on Azure: landing-zone aligned, private endpoints and customer-managed keys where sovereignty demands, Entra identity throughout, and infrastructure as code from the first commit.

What separates a good Foundry estate from a demo environment is the operational layer. Evaluation pipelines with golden datasets and regression gates, prompt and response logging for audit, tracing on agentic workloads, and quota and cost governance per team. We build those in before the first use case ships, because retrofitting rigour after users arrive is twice the work at twice the risk.

Foundry is also where our cloud and AI practices meet. The platform work here underpins the RAG services, custom applications and multi-agent systems our AI practice delivers, and hosts them alongside whatever your own teams build. One factory, many products, shared governance.

Azure AI Foundry, delivered by certified Microsoft specialists

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What We Deliver

Key capabilities

Azure AI Studio & OpenAI Integration

One development environment across Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI, so building, testing and deploying models all happens inside the same governed boundary.

  • Hubs and projects with RBAC and quotas per team
  • Azure OpenAI deployment, routing and cost management
  • Regional model deployments for UK and EU data residency
  • Model catalogue kept flexible as the market moves

Generative AI Agents

The platform foundations agent workloads need to run accountably in production: identity, tracing, approval gates and evaluation, ready before the first agent ships.

  • Agent tracing and observability from day one
  • Human approval gates on consequential actions
  • Evaluation against golden datasets before release
  • Entra Agent ID for agent identity and access

Model Catalogue & Prompt Engineering

Project-based workflows with the full model catalogue and prompt engineering tools, so teams experiment quickly without ever leaving the governed environment.

RAG & Multimodal AI

Retrieval Augmented Generation and multimodal support that ground responses in your enterprise data, so answers cite sources instead of inventing them, across text, image and audio.

Business Automation & Content Generation

Automation and content generation workloads hosted on the same platform, inheriting the evaluation, logging and cost controls every other workload gets.

AI-Enabled Value Streams

Faster paths from AI idea to production, measured in shipped workloads rather than proofs of concept that never leave the lab.

One-Click Deployment & Hosted Agents

One-click deployment, Entra Agent ID integration and hosted agents that shorten the path from development to production while identity and security stay enterprise-grade.

8 wks

From kick-off to Azure AI Foundry in production

100%

Aligned with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework

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Unified factory for AI apps, agents and models

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Workloads shipped without evaluation, tracing and cost controls

Common Use Cases

Where Azure AI Foundry earns its keep

Enterprise AI factory

Stand up a secure, multi-team Azure AI Foundry environment that hosts GenAI apps, agents and custom models under one governance model.

Private Azure OpenAI applications

Build bespoke GenAI apps with private endpoints, content filters, customer-managed keys and full observability for regulated workloads.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Deploy RAG solutions over SharePoint, Fabric or bespoke vector stores so AI answers are grounded, cited and up to date.

Agentic applications

Orchestrate multi-step, tool-using agents with Azure AI Foundry Agents and Entra Agent ID for secure, auditable automation.

Multimodal and vision workloads

Combine text, image, document and audio models for use cases like claims processing, clinical triage or content moderation.

Landing zone for AI workloads

Provide a governed landing zone with networking, identity, monitoring and DevOps patterns so product teams ship AI quickly and safely.

How We Work

A proven delivery approach

  1. 01 Step

    Assess

    Review Azure landing zone, identity, networking and AI workload demand to set a Foundry target state.

  2. 02 Step

    Design

    Architect Foundry projects, hubs, networking, identity, model selection and DevOps patterns aligned to Microsoft best practice.

  3. 03 Step

    Build

    Deploy Foundry via infrastructure-as-code, onboard initial workloads and establish guardrails, quotas and cost controls.

  4. 04 Step

    Scale

    Onboard additional product teams, optimise model routing and cost, and embed responsible AI and FinOps practices.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is Azure AI Foundry?

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s unified platform for building, evaluating and operating AI applications and agents. It combines Azure OpenAI, the model catalogue, AI Search, Agents, prompt flow, evaluations and responsible AI tooling inside a single, enterprise-grade environment.

How is Azure AI Foundry different from Copilot Studio?

Copilot Studio is the fast path for conversational agents over documents, data and business actions, especially in Teams. Azure AI Foundry is the right choice when you need a bespoke application, deep UX and orchestration control, custom model hosting or specialist evaluation. We deliver and combine both.

How long does an Azure AI Foundry build take?

A production-ready Foundry environment with the first workload live typically takes 8–12 weeks. Additional workloads ship much faster once the platform pattern is in place.

How do you handle security and data residency?

We deploy Foundry with private endpoints, customer-managed keys, Purview integration, Entra identity and prompt / response logging, and pick regional model deployments to meet data residency requirements – including UK and EU sovereignty needs.

Can Foundry host multiple teams and use cases safely?

Yes. We design Foundry with hubs, projects, RBAC and capacity quotas so product, data and research teams share the platform without treading on one another, with clear chargeback and FinOps controls.

Can Synapx operate the platform after go-live?

Yes. Synapx-as-a-Service provides ongoing Foundry operations, model lifecycle management, cost optimisation and enhancement, delivered by the UK-based engineers who built your environment.

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Lanware
Micheldever Tyre Services
Midwich
Mount Anvil
Nuevo Partners
Pro Global
Seras Energy
Skanska
Ocean Conservation Trust
WA Comms
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