LLM PoC on Databricks

Validate your LLM use case on Databricks

A fixed-scope proof of concept to test whether an LLM designed for a domain-specific use case, built on your organisation's knowledge base and running inside your Databricks environment, answers questions the way your business needs. Know if it works before committing to a full build.
Key Benefits

What the solution delivers
for your organisation

Increase developer productivity

The PoC delivers a working pipeline your team can immediately extend, rather than starting from scratch after validation.

Easily monitor performance

Monitoring is included, not a later addition. You see how the model performs on your data from day one.

Reduce total cost of ownership

Validating on your existing Databricks infrastructure means the PoC output is reusable, not a throwaway prototype.

Built on top of your own Delta Tables

The PoC ingests your existing data, not a sandboxed demo. Validation reflects actual retrieval quality on your real knowledge base.

Improve security by keeping your data and model in-house

The entire PoC runs inside your Databricks managed environment. No proprietary data passes through an external API.

Reduce time to market

If the use case validates, a production build starts from a real foundation, not from zero.

High-level RAG LLM architecture on Databricks

The PoC implements the same RAG pipeline that underpins a full production LLM deployment running end-to-end inside your Databricks managed environment. The proof of concept validates that this architecture works with your specific data type, volume, and governance requirements before you commit to a full build.
Scope of Work & Deliverables

Four phases. A working LLM chatbot on your data.

The PoC runs through the same four delivery phases as a full Applied LLM engagement. Scope is fixed at the start. Each phase has a defined output.
01
Advisory

Assess knowledge base, define the Q&A use case, confirm model approach and architecture. Model selection locked in this phase.

LLM strategy document
Confirmed target architecture
02
Solution Building

End-to-end build: data ingestion, vector database setup, embedding pipeline, RAG architecture, Q&A chatbot layer. Tested against your data.

Validated, deployable LLM chatbot pipeline
03
Model Serving

Chatbot deployed via Databricks Model Serving, a managed endpoint accessible to your team for real-world validation queries.

Live, queryable LLM chatbot endpoint in your environment
04
Monitoring

Monitoring set up to track response relevance, usage patterns, and degradation signals, objective basis for evaluating the PoC.

Monitoring setup with initial performance baseline
Package

One package.
Everything included.

The LLM PoC is a single, all-in engagement. No tier selection. No optional add-ons. You know exactly what you get and what it costs before you start.

LLM PoC on Databricks

What's included
Define LLM strategy based on your requirements
Set up Databricks Vector Database using your own data
Build ML pipeline for the Q&A chatbot
Select Vector Database to store your vectorized data
Set up a pre-trained generative language model (Databricks foundation models or third-party API)
Use custom models from Hugging Face repository
Set up monitoring to track model performance
Talk to an Expert
Not in scope: additional data transformation, infrastructure setup, model performance SLAs, application development (e.g. a chat interface or front-end). These can be scoped separately.

Looking for a production-ready, tiered engagement? See Applied LLM on Databricks