The COMPEL Glossary Graph visualizes relationships between framework terminology, showing how concepts interconnect across domains, stages, and pillars. Term nodes cluster by pillar affiliation while cross-references reveal semantic dependencies — for example, how risk appetite connects to control effectiveness, model governance, and assurance requirements. This network representation helps practitioners navigate the framework vocabulary and understand that COMPEL terminology forms a coherent conceptual system rather than isolated definitions.
COMPEL Glossary / architecture-runway
Architecture runway
The reusable platform components — inference infrastructure, retrieval stack, observability, policy engine, evaluation harness — that future AI use cases inherit rather than re-build.
What this means in practice
Investing in the architecture runway ahead of use cases reduces time-to-deploy and drives per-use-case cost down the learning curve; central to scaling from pilot to portfolio.
Synonyms
platform runway , reusable architecture runway
See also
- AI reference architecture — A canonical layered model — client, orchestration, model, knowledge, observability planes — that every AI system maps onto.
- Agentic platform — A shared enterprise platform providing agent runtime, tool registry, memory stores, safety layer, observability, and evaluation — so individual agentic use cases inherit these components rather than build them.
- ADR (architecture decision record) — A short, dated document capturing the context, decision, consequences, and status of an architectural decision — e.g., "we chose hybrid retrieval over naive RAG because X".