Businesses across all industries are navigating the rapidly evolving world of generative AI. The pressure to adopt the latest AI technologies and quickly demonstrate the value of AI applications and agents is increasing. However, starting from scratch can be complicated and time-consuming for developers.  

To reduce complexity, Microsoft has gathered insights from over 1,000 customer engagements to develop a set of 10 quickstart AI templates within Azure AI Foundry. These templates support popular AI use cases and empower developers to easily design and deploy AI solutions, reducing development time compared to initiating projects from scratch and scaling into production.

Get started quickly with AI templates  

Create intelligent applications with templates that range from basic to advanced scenarios, helping teams to get started with developing AI chatbots, multi-agent workflow automation, and more. Each template is highly customizable to suit a wide variety of use cases, including optimizing call center performance, analyzing data, improving product discovery, validating code, and more.  

Visit Azure AI Foundry to explore and deploy the templates. 

Each template points to a managed GitHub repository containing a wealth of information, including: 

• Reference architecture
• Deployment guide and quick deployment options
• Key technical features
• Relevant use cases
• Pricing calculator
• Security guidelines
• Tips to customize for your specific needs 

The templates are continually evolving, with regular updates and additions. 

Spotlight: Multi-agent workflow automation template 

Let’s take the Multi-agent workflow automation template as an example. This template enables users to automate a wide variety of workflows. This application is an AI-driven orchestration system that manages a group of AI agents to accomplish tasks based on user input. It uses a FastAPI backend to handle HTTP requests, processes them through various specialized agents, and stores stateful information using Azure Cosmos DB. 

The GitHub repository for this template is shown below and is accessible here. 

There are quick deploy options that you can use to deploy this template or any other Azure AI Foundry template. 

Each template can help solve a variety of use cases and comes with a UI that is designed to make it easy for the user to quickly adopt the application. For example, the multi-agent workflow automation template can be used to improve employee onboarding tasks.  

Here are a couple of other examples to give you a sense of the different templates, the types of problems they can help solve: 

• Create a chat experience for your team or customers to help employees find relevant information faster or improve customer service experience. 

• Quickly process and extract information from documents. 

Spotlight: Deploy your AI Application in Production  

The template, Deploy your AI Application in Production is designed to eliminate guesswork when setting-up a secure, extensible, and integrated environment to run your Azure AI Foundry project in production. 

How our customers are innovating

AI templates in Azure AI Foundry offer developers a robust foundational application structure and reusable code components that can be swiftly deployed and tailored to meet specific requirements. These templates are equipped with the necessary tools and frameworks to transition from a Proof of Concept (PoC) to full-scale production in a secure and efficient manner.  

Hamburg Commercial Bank AG and Verisma Systems have begun using the AI templates in Azure AI Foundry to design and customize their AI agents. Here’s what they have to say: 

“The ‘get started with AI agents’ template in Azure AI Foundry significantly reduced our development time and helped us deploy an agentic application in minutes. The deployment guide and quick deployment options in the GitHub repository were extremely helpful and provided all the key details for a smooth process.” – Frank Selbach, Head of IT (CTO), Hamburg Commercial Bank AG 

“The AI Foundry templates have been a game-changer for our team. We were able to deploy the template very quickly and then immediately focus on customizing it to our most critical use cases. We are excited to explore and deploy more templates in the near future as well” –  Anupriyo Chakravarti, Chief Technology & Product Officer (CIO, CTO), Verisma Systems

Create the future of AI  

If you aim to expedite your journey from ideation to PoC development and scaling to production, start leveraging AI templates in Azure AI Foundry today. 

• Get started with Azure AI Foundry 
• Download the Azure AI Foundry SDK  
• Review the documentation  
• Take the Azure AI Foundry learn courses 
• Check out this breakout session from Microsoft Build
• Learn about the latest developer essentials for agents and apps in Azure AI Foundry  
• Review the latest coding announcements with Azure AI Foundry API and SDK