July 18, 2026·Sri Raghu Malireddi & Ashvath Suresh Kumar·25 min read

The Production AI Stack: A Reference Architecture for Real-Time AI Systems

The seven layers of every real-time AI system - models, inference, search, memory, sessions, orchestration, and deployment - and where latency comes from at each one. A reference architecture for building voice agents, copilots, and conversational AI that feel instant.

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The Production AI Stack: A Reference Architecture for Real-Time AI Systems

We Built a Voice AI Agent for Our Website. Then Other Companies Started Asking for It.

What Happens When You Remove the Network Hop from RAG

The Retrieval Latency Tax: Why Your AI Agent Feels Slow (And It's Not the LLM)

We Spent a Decade Making AI Feel Instant. Here's What We Learned.

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The Production AI Stack: A Reference Architecture for Real-Time AI Systems

We Built a Voice AI Agent for Our Website. Then Other Companies Started Asking for It.

What Happens When You Remove the Network Hop from RAG

The Retrieval Latency Tax: Why Your AI Agent Feels Slow (And It's Not the LLM)

We Spent a Decade Making AI Feel Instant. Here's What We Learned.