A robust multimodal pipeline is essential for success in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. These pipelines can efficiently process and manage diverse data types, enabling enterprises to build innovative workflows. DataVolo, a platform built on Apache NiFi, addresses the challenges of handling unstructured data by simplifying unstructured data processing and allowing for scalable, cloud-native pipelines. It supports real-time responsiveness to metadata, permission changes, and strong evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic AI models. Integration with vector databases like Milvus enhances functionality like vector search, ensuring smooth operation in real-world scenarios. Multimodal pipelines are critical for AI due to the complexity of handling unstructured data, improving AI accuracy, retrieving augmented generation, scaling AI workflows, and providing real-time updates. The challenges in the AI data landscape include data type complexity, metadata as a backbone, data management, evaluation-first approach, scalability, and integration with vector databases. DataVolo addresses these challenges by enabling continuous and automated data pipelines, event-driven architecture, scalable and fault-tolerant design, and AI success through evaluation. Evaluating non-deterministic models requires dynamic feedback loops, iterations, various testing sets, and metrics sensitive to context. Hyperparameter tuning is crucial in refining AI workflows, particularly retrieval-augmented generation systems. Multimodal pipelines are the backbone of scaling AI systems from experimental stages to full-scale production, offering scalable, secure, high-performance data management by integrating advanced data pipeline platforms and vector databases.