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The full six-layer architecture

We’ll walk your team through the complete platform map, layer by layer, against your own estate.

Book a consultationThe eight control planes

Six layers, one trust fabric

Microsoft’s own model has six layers plus a trust axis that runs across all of them. We group the six into three bands below and mark where each Talastron tier sits. The full six-layer version, with reference architectures, is available on request.

Advise · Chief AI Strategist and Chief AI Architect: advice across every layer
Agents & experiences · Layers 1, 2, 4
  1. 1Experience

    where users meet agents: Copilots, custom apps, portals

    Kinetic AI · custom agent surfaces
  2. 2Agent families

    workplace, business apps, security, data, cloud ops, developer, custom domain

    Kinetic AI · custom domain agentsPre-built · Fabric IQ agents
  3. 4Build spectrum

    no-code → low-code → pro-code
    Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry

    Kinetic AI · pro-code on Foundry
grounding contextrequests, tool calls
Intelligence · Layer 3 · Microsoft IQ platform
  1. Work IQ

    how people work: meetings, documents

  2. Fabric IQ

    what business data means: metrics, entities

    Pre-built · IQ templates
  3. Foundry IQ

    governed knowledge, retrieval, memory

    Kinetic AI · retrieval, RAG
  4. Web IQ

    external, current signals

governed data, identityqueries, actions under policy
Runtime & foundation · Layers 5, 6
  1. 5Execution environments

    Local / edge · Cloud runtime · Cloud PC

    Pre-built · cloud runtime
  2. 6Foundation platform

    Graph · Azure · Fabric · Microsoft 365 · Dynamics 365 · Power Platform

    Pre-built · landing zones
policypolicypolicy
  • Microsoft’s layers and services
  • Compliance scope

Layer model after Microsoft’s “The Microsoft AI and Agent Platform” (Microsoft Tech Community, July 2026). Microsoft product names are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. The tier overlay and the compliance scope are Talastron’s own.

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