Promising pilots with no production path
Prototypes may demonstrate model capability without resolving identity, integration, evaluation, deployment, cost, or support.
AI Modernization on AWS
Modernize AI and automation on AWS with Amazon Bedrock agents and knowledge bases, Textract, serverless workflows, secure data foundations, and production observability.

Cloud-specific delivery
Architecture, implementation, evaluation, and operations designed for the platform you already run.
The service in practice
AWS AI modernization is not a model-shopping exercise. It is the work of turning a useful experiment into a secure service with dependable data, controlled access, measurable quality, and an operating owner.
Capilano AI helps teams use Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Textract, Lambda, Step Functions, and AWS data services to modernize a bounded workflow first, then establish the architecture and delivery practices needed to extend it responsibly across the business.
Why this work matters
Prototypes may demonstrate model capability without resolving identity, integration, evaluation, deployment, cost, or support.
Data, documents, automations, and business logic sit in separate services with inconsistent ownership and controls.
Teams accumulate overlapping services because the operating outcome, evidence standard, and human role were never made explicit.
A practical design for Bedrock agents and knowledge bases, event-driven workflows, document processing, evaluation, and CloudWatch operations, grounded in your existing cloud, identity, data, and integration boundaries.
A focused workflow delivered with evaluation, approval, telemetry, release controls, and a clear handoff to operations.
Dependencies, risks, platform decisions, and follow-on opportunities organized into a phased roadmap rather than an unbounded transformation program.
Platform capabilities
We select managed services around the workflow, identity model, data boundaries, quality target, and operating responsibility.
Build agents with model choice, action groups, guardrails, evaluations, and governed tool use.
Ground applications in managed or customer-managed retrieval with citations and permission controls.
Extract typed and handwritten text, forms, tables, invoices, receipts, IDs, and lending records.
Orchestrate event-driven AI workflows, approvals, retries, and business-system integration.
Prepare governed operational and analytical data for document, retrieval, and agent workloads.
Control access and establish logs, metrics, traces, alerts, audit, and operating ownership.
Where to apply it
Each use case is scoped with data access, integration, evaluation, human approval, monitoring, and ownership from the beginning.
Combine private knowledge, action groups, APIs, and human approvals for a bounded business workflow.
Use Textract with serverless orchestration to validate documents, route exceptions, and update systems of record.
Ingest S3 and connected content, tune retrieval, preserve citations, and evaluate answer quality.
Replace notebooks and fragile scripts with versioned infrastructure, evaluation gates, monitoring, and runbooks.
How we deliver
The method is intentionally practical: reduce uncertainty early, build the full operating path, and leave the service with people who can run it.
See our delivery approachMap the work, baseline, users, decisions, exceptions, risks, and evidence required to call the engagement successful.
Test the data, integrations, model or platform behavior, quality target, and human workflow before scaling the build.
Implement identity, data, workflow, evaluation, telemetry, deployment, documentation, and recovery—not only the visible AI feature.
Roll out in controlled stages, train the operating team, review production evidence, and convert confirmed failures into improvements.
Typical engagement
The exact scope follows the operating outcome and current environment. These are the core work products typically required to make the result useful and supportable.
AI use-case, workload, and data-readiness assessment
Amazon Bedrock agent, model, tool, and guardrail architecture
Knowledge Base ingestion, retrieval, citations, and access design
Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and API integration
Evaluation, trace, latency, safety, and cost baselines
Infrastructure as code, rollout plan, monitoring, and runbooks
Questions to resolve early
No. We start with the systems and constraints you already have. The target design can keep selected data or applications outside AWS when that is the safer or more economical choice.
Yes. We review its workflow, prompts, tools, data access, failure modes, deployment method, and ownership, then decide what can be retained and what should be redesigned.
We look for repeatable work with a measurable baseline, accessible data, a willing process owner, and a safe way for people to review or take over when needed.
Production readiness includes identity, data protection, tested integrations, representative evaluations, telemetry, cost controls, release gates, incident handling, documentation, and an accountable owner.
Field notes
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We will help clarify the operating outcome, difficult assumptions, delivery path, and evidence required for a responsible investment decision.