Are your GenAI assistants built on a reliable, secure tools foundation?
In the early days of GenAI, LLMs were the proverbial "hammer" and everything looked like a nail. Today, full-stack GenAI solutions leverage an ecosystem of tools and services to augment LLM functionality, and deliver extensible, feature rich user experiences.
To Win, your teams will need to master Tools and external services as a core part of developing high-quality and high-value GenAI solutions.
The Challenge
Without a strong, end-to-end approach to GenAI tools and pipelines, solutions struggle to:
- Deliver extensible, reliable results for complex GenAI use cases
- Consistently enforce validation, security, and access controls.
- Orchestrate multi-step pipelines with error handling and cross-modal coordination.
Gaps in Tool capabilities will significantly limit the impact of your GenAI efforts, and worse, result in really boring solutions...
Our Solution
The GenAI Tools Foundations Certification series focuses on mastering foundational tool, data handling, and pipeline patterns for production GenAI solutions. Participants will:
- Explore core patterns for tool selection, secure data handling, and multi-step orchestration.
- Work through curated Jupyter notebook labs that reveal tool behavior, failure modes, and monitoring and logging practices.
- Assemble an integrated, production-ready tool layer and pipeline in an IDE capstone, with expert feedback and coaching.
Note: The Tools Foundations Certification is followed by our Advanced GenAI Tools Certification series, which explores more complex Tool use cases (e.g. MCP)
Areas of Focus
- Tool Selection & Integration Workshop — Build a resilient tool layer using structured outputs, adapters, and test harnesses that keep LLM tool calls predictable.
- Data Handling, Validation & Security Workshop — Design secure, schema-first data flows with least-privilege access, secrets management, and guardrails for every tool call.
- Tool Chaining & Pipelines Workshop — Orchestrate reliable, stateful pipelines with robust error handling, branching, and cross-modal coordination across tools and data sources.
Skills You'll Gain
- Resilient Tool Layer Design - Create reusable contracts, schemas, and adapters that withstand API and system changes.
- Secure Data Flows - Implement schema-first validation, secrets handling, and defenses against malicious or unsafe inputs.
- Reliable Pipelines & Orchestration - Build multi-step workflows with clear state management, routing, retries, and fallbacks.
- Faster, Safer Releases - Shorten the path to production by baking testing, observability, and security into your tool and pipeline layer.
- Shared Platform Patterns - Standardize tools, pipelines, and governance so teams can build new GenAI features on a common foundation.
Who Should Attend:
Explore our Tools Foundations Certification Workshops
Help your teams responsibly adopt and scale GenAI Tool Usage. Click below to explore the remaining workshops in the GenAI Tools Foundations certification series.
Tool Selection and Integration
Data Handling and Security
Tool Chaining