Free Lesson
Claude Certified Architect: Production, Not the Demo
Part of Claude Certified Architect: The Last Mile
30 min
Sep 23, 2026 12:00 PM
What you'll learn
Strip tools the job does not need
Least privilege: if the role never refunds or deletes, remove those tools. Logging is not a substitute for removal.
Design the RAG and integration surface
Match retrieval, MCP or API, identity, and observability to the data and the blast radius — not a connector list.
Put an eval gate in front of "it works"
Golden cases, pass/fail, cost and latency. If a refresh breaks answers, start at retrieval — not the model weights.
Why this topic matters
The failure mode is almost never that the model was not smart enough. It is integration, identity, and no one who can tell if the system got better after the documents changed. That is why Accenture and Capgemini sit in OpenAI's Frontier Alliances — and why Claude Certified Architect (Professional) weights integration and evaluation heaviest. In 30 minutes: the production surface and the gate that proves it. Lesson 2 of 5.
