Overview
HCLTech AI Foundry is an enterprise-scale Data and AI managed services solution that helps organizations modernize data, simplify insights and scale AI responsibly. It bridges the gap between experimentation and production, with 50% faster time to production and 45% lower platform management costs.
Unlike platform-centric competitors, AI Foundry is cloud-agnostic and modular, enabling enterprises to operationalize AI within their existing data estates—whether on-prem, private or public cloud—with governance, flexibility and measurable business outcomes built in.
AI Foundry Highlights
Improvement in AI-enabled value stream
Increase in customer insights from analytics
Faster time to production
Increase in AI-driven KPIs
Savings in content creation and distribution
Savings in AI platform management
Our Offerings
Unlock the path to tomorrow's triumphs by transitioning from chaos to clarity
Revamp your data landscape to unlock your full potential
Enabling intelligent evolution so you lead the transformational wave
Ready to transform your business with AI?
We help enterprises become future-proof by enabling new capabilities, possibilities and outcomes through the power of AI/GenAI. Our approach combines pragmatic platforms and services, industry-focused repeatable solutions, top-tier partnerships, a global network of AI Labs and full-stack GenAI expertise. Clients experience scalable, secure and high-performing AI solutions, all built on Responsible AI and change management principles. Want to see AI deliver real ROI? Connect with us and let's make it happen.
Resources
In this podcast episode, speakers will explore what it truly takes to move AI from proof of concept to production, delivering measurable business impact at scale.
In this episode of the Elevate Podcast series, experts explore how organizations can move beyond AI experimentation and build robust, scalable AI estates.
HCLTech AI Foundry leads the shift from GenAI to scalable Agentic AI, enabling autonomous intelligence and real enterprise transformation across industries.
We boosted revenue and customer satisfaction for an American convenience store chain
To effectively scale innovation ambitions, organizations must connect the dots by bridging the silos between data, AI and infrastructure
Ericsson partnered with HCLTech to help reach the ambitious goal of moving 80% of their application systems to AWS to build an agile innovation platform and for cultural transformation.
Episode 32: From strategy to execution: Scaling AI with a product-aligned operating model
Srinivas Kompella, Senior Vice President of Data and AI Enterprise at HCLTech, discusses how a product‑aligned operating model enables enterprises to scale AI with agility, trust and repeatability.
Frequently Asked Questions about AI Foundry
AI Foundry is a modular, full-stack offering that helps enterprises scale AI from pilots to production by aligning data, infrastructure and AI with business outcomes.
Unlike standalone tools or ad-hoc projects, AI Foundry provides:
- A blueprint for autonomous deployments
- Pre-integrated components (data pipelines, AI models, infra)
- Responsible AI governance and security
- System integration and managed services support
- The Foundry Marketplace, offering industry-agnostic as well as industry-aligned reusables
- Personalized customer experiences: Across retail, banking, and healthcare, it leverages AI to tailor interactions, offers and content based on behavioral and transactional data
- AI-powered product innovation and demand forecasting: Used in manufacturing, consumer goods and logistics to optimize product design, inventory planning and market responsiveness
- Conversational AI and content automation: Applied across industries for voice assistants, chatbots and auto-generated reports, manuals and communications
- Regulatory compliance and intelligent document processing: Critical in financial services, healthcare and legal domains for automating audits, extracting insights and reducing manual errors
- Agentic AI assistants for enterprise workflows: Enabling next-gen automation in HR, IT, procurement and customer service through goal-oriented AI agents that can reason, plan and execute tasks
AI Foundry offers flexible deployment and integration capabilities, with support for:
- Cloud, on-prem and hybrid setups
- Major hyperscalers: Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM
- Physical infrastructure: Dell, NVIDIA, HPE
- Built-in connectors for data, infra and business applications
AI Foundry:
- Uses prebuilt accelerators to shorten implementation time
- Offers cognitive infrastructure tailored to business needs
- Enables experimentation through a curated AI Marketplace
- Promotes reuse, standardization and faster scaling
Many enterprises are stuck in 'pilot purgatory,' unable to move AI initiatives beyond experimentation. AI Foundry solves this by providing the building blocks, governance and operational support needed to take AI from isolated POCs to enterprise-grade deployments.
The components of AI Foundry include:
- Prebuilt AI models and utilities
- Data lifecycle assets
- Cognitive infrastructure (cloud, hybrid, on-prem)
- Business and process templates
- AI governance and policies
- Foundry Marketplace with data, analytics and AI assets and agents
- Agent hub
- Vertical AI solutions
- CIOs, CDOs, CAIOs: Reduce tech debt, accelerate AI deployments
- CMOs & Sales Leaders: Improve customer insights and marketing ROI
- BU Heads: Drive operational efficiencies with AI-infused processes
- Data Architect, AI Architect, Data Engineer, AI Engineer, Data Scientists
- Up to 5x improvement in AI-driven value streams
- 50% faster time to production
- 87.5% reduction in time to close compliance alerts
- $100M+ in cost savings through productivity improvements
Yes, AI Foundry supports all deployment models, including cloud native, on-prem and hybrid.
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