Emil Slavin - AI Architecture Consultant

Emil Slavin

AI Architecture & Strategy Consultant · Founder, SLAtech LTD

I help enterprise teams make AI architecture decisions before they buy or build. RAG pipelines, multi-tenant SaaS, observability and security, governance and compliance (EU AI Act, 152-FZ, internal AI risk frameworks). 20+ years in enterprise software, the last 5 focused on production AI.

Writing here is opinion-mode - decision-support, not implementation. When the call ends with "now do it," that’s when SLAtech LTD picks up the engineering. Two distinct hats, kept distinct on purpose.

Knowledge Domains

Topics I write about with first-hand production experience, not theory.

AI Architecture & Decision Records
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Vector Databases & Hybrid Search
Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture
AI Observability (4 telemetry layers)
AI Security & Prompt Injection Defense
Enterprise AI Governance
EU AI Act Compliance
152-FZ AI Compliance (RU)
Decision-Support Systems
Vertical AI (medical, hospitality, fintech)
.NET Enterprise Architecture

Publications on slavin.pro

AI Observability in Production: What to Measure, What to Ignore
Article · 13 min read · TechArticle
AI without observability = black box in production. 4 telemetry layers (performance, quality, cost, drift), OpenTelemetry patterns, KPIs that matter and the ones that don't.
AI Security: The Threat Model Most Teams Miss
Article · TechArticle
Prompt injection, data exfiltration via RAG, model output as attack vector, supply-chain risks in LLM pipelines. Threat model + concrete defenses.
Multi-Tenant SaaS for AI Workloads
Article · TechArticle
Per-tenant context isolation, cost attribution, fair-share scheduling for shared LLM quotas, data residency without per-tenant deployment explosion.
RAG Architecture: From Notebook to Production
Article · TechArticle
The leap from a working RAG notebook to a system 100 enterprise users won't break. Ingestion, chunking, hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluation, versioning.
Vertical AI: Why "AI for Everyone" Loses to "AI for Lawyers"
Article · TechArticle
Why narrow vertical AI beats broad horizontal AI on quality, cost, and customer retention. Architecture patterns for vertical specialization.

Case Studies

Enterprise: AI Knowledge Hub for a 5,000-Employee Org
Case Study
Multi-source RAG across SharePoint, Confluence, and a legacy CRM. Permissions-aware retrieval, audit trail, deflection metrics.
Government: Citizen-Facing AI for a Regulated Agency
Case Study
Disclaimer architecture, citation enforcement, human-in-loop gates, regulatory documentation. Public-sector AI without a PR incident.
Healthcare: Clinician Assistant with Compliance Guardrails
Case Study
HIPAA-mode operation, PHI redaction, prompt patterns that refuse out-of-scope queries, audit trail that survives a regulator review.

Cross-Network Presence

I publish across the SLAtech network depending on the lens. Strategy-and-governance pieces live on slavin.ai. Israeli-market organizational and case-study content lives on slatech.co.il. Russian-market 152-FZ and medical-AI cluster lives on slatech.ru. Each property has its own Schema.org Knowledge Graph at /.well-known/knowledge-graph.json.

Citation

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