A prototype designed to help teams move from a customer RFP to a working proof of concept more efficiently has won at the Cloudera AI Hackathon.
The “RFP to PoC builder” includes human review, governance and traceability features to support responsible use.
Designed and built on the Cloudera platform as part of the partner competition, the solution showcased a secure enterprise AI use case designed to accelerate solution development without compromising control, governance, or auditability.
The solution helps teams translate customer requirements into a structured, reviewable workflow, reducing the time and effort required to move from bid response to a functional proof of concept.
• Upload RFP documents
• Extract and structure requirements
• Review outputs through human-in-the-loop governance stages
• Maintain end-to-end traceability
• Generate a working proof of concept aligned to the RFP
Members of the Enterprise Solutions team spearheaded the challenge under the team name Citadel of Inference:
• Damien Rider – Solutions Architect
• Robert Prather – Data Architect
• Gerard Maguire – Cloud Engineer
• Scott Thomson, Doug Whip & Todd Trevillion – Project Sponsors
According to the judging panel, the entry stood out for both the strength of the use case and the team’s execution.
Despite limited prior hands-on experience with the Cloudera platform, the team delivered a practical, well-governed prototype at speed.
“What the Cloudera Hackathon reinforced is that organisations aren’t struggling to adopt AI – they’re struggling to operationalise it in a secure, governed way that delivers real business outcomes.”
“Our ‘RFP to PoC builder’ shows how you can bring AI directly to trusted data, automate complex workflows, and still maintain human oversight and traceability.”
“That’s the shift the market is demanding – moving beyond experimentation to production-ready AI that reduces cost, accelerates delivery, and builds confidence in every output.”
Todd Trevillion, Executive General Manager, Strategic Partnerships and Relationships, Citadel Edge said,” Citadel Edge is now evolving the prototype beyond an RFP-to-PoC solution into a broader internal AI development platform for new greenfield builds.”
“The next phase will focus on hardening and securing the environment to support Citadel Edge’s requirements for a private, sovereign AI development capability.” he said.
