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). 22 years in enterprise software, the last 5 focused on production AI.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/emilslavin

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.

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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.

Rewrite or Refactor a System Nobody Understands

Article · TechArticle

The decision is not the age of the code but whether behaviour can be verified. Three questions to answer first, and the two conditions incremental replacement needs.

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. Each property has its own Schema.org Knowledge Graph at /.well-known/knowledge-graph.json.

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