diff --git a/ax/ax_types.thrift b/ax/ax_types.thrift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..20aa24ec0b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ax/ax_types.thrift
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+include "ax/storage/future/thrift/generation_strategy.thrift"
diff --git a/ax/storage/future/generation_strategy.py b/ax/storage/future/generation_strategy.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d2034f043ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ax/storage/future/generation_strategy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Self
+
+from ax.storage.future.thrift.generation_strategy.thrift_types import (
+    GenerationNode as ThriftGenerationNode,
+    GenerationStrategy as ThriftGenerationStrategy,
+)
+
+from ax.storage.future.universal import ThriftSerializable, UniversalStruct
+from pyre_extensions import assert_is_instance, override
+
+
+@dataclass
+class GenerationNode(ThriftSerializable):
+    name: str
+
+    @classmethod
+    @override
+    def thrift_type(cls) -> type[UniversalStruct]:
+        return ThriftGenerationNode
+
+    @override
+    def serialize(self) -> ThriftGenerationNode:
+        return ThriftGenerationNode(name=self.name)
+
+    @classmethod
+    @override
+    def deserialize(cls, struct: UniversalStruct) -> Self:
+        node_struct = assert_is_instance(struct, ThriftGenerationNode)
+
+        return cls(name=node_struct.name)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class GenerationStrategy(ThriftSerializable):
+    name: str
+    nodes: list[GenerationNode]
+    current_node_index: int = 0
+
+    @classmethod
+    @override
+    def thrift_type(cls) -> type[UniversalStruct]:
+        return ThriftGenerationStrategy
+
+    @override
+    def serialize(self) -> ThriftGenerationStrategy:
+        return ThriftGenerationStrategy(
+            name=self.name,
+            nodes=[node.serialize() for node in self.nodes],
+            current_node_index=self.current_node_index,
+        )
+
+    @classmethod
+    @override
+    def deserialize(cls, struct: UniversalStruct) -> Self:
+        gs_struct = assert_is_instance(struct, ThriftGenerationStrategy)
+
+        return cls(
+            name=gs_struct.name,
+            nodes=[GenerationNode.deserialize(node) for node in gs_struct.nodes],
+            current_node_index=gs_struct.current_node_index,
+        )
+
+
+sobol_node = GenerationNode(name="sobol")
+mbg_node = GenerationNode(name="modular_botorch_generator")
+
+gs = GenerationStrategy(
+    name="gpei",
+    nodes=[sobol_node, mbg_node],
+    current_node_index=1,
+)
diff --git a/ax/storage/future/thrift/generation_strategy.thrift b/ax/storage/future/thrift/generation_strategy.thrift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1617ab55627
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ax/storage/future/thrift/generation_strategy.thrift
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+namespace py3 ax.storage.future.thrift
+
+struct GenerationNode {
+  1: string name;
+}
+
+struct GenerationStrategy {
+  1: string name;
+  2: list<GenerationNode> nodes;
+  3: i32 current_node_index;
+}
diff --git a/ax/storage/future/universal.py b/ax/storage/future/universal.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..89c073bdded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ax/storage/future/universal.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from typing import Self
+
+
+try:
+    from thrift.python.serializer import deserialize, Protocol, serialize
+    from thrift.python.types import Struct
+
+    UniversalStruct = Struct
+    JSONProtocol = Protocol.JSON
+except ImportError:  # Use Apache Thrift if thrift-python is not available.
+    from typing import Any
+
+    from thrift.protocol import TJSONProtocol
+    from thrift.transport import TTransport
+
+    def serialize(struct, protocol):
+        transport = TTransport.TMemoryBuffer()
+        proto = protocol.getProtocol(transport)
+        struct.write(proto)
+
+        return transport.getvalue()
+
+    def deserialize(klass, buf, protocol):
+        transport = TTransport.TMemoryBuffer(buf)
+        proto = protocol.getProtocol(transport)
+        obj = klass()
+        obj.read(proto)
+        return obj
+
+    UniversalStruct = Any
+    JSONProtocol = TJSONProtocol.TJSONProtocolFactory()
+
+
+class ThriftSerializable(ABC):
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def thrift_type(cls) -> type[UniversalStruct]: ...
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def serialize(self) -> UniversalStruct: ...
+
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def deserialize(cls, struct: UniversalStruct) -> Self: ...
+
+    def to_json(self) -> str:
+        struct = self.serialize()
+
+        return serialize(struct, protocol=JSONProtocol).decode("utf-8")
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_json(cls, json_str: str) -> Self:
+        struct = deserialize(
+            cls.thrift_type(), json_str.encode("utf-8"), protocol=JSONProtocol
+        )
+
+        return cls.deserialize(struct=struct)
diff --git a/build_thrift.py b/build_thrift.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1ea43a345ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_thrift.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+
+from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
+
+
+class build_py(_build_py):
+    def run(self):
+        subprocess.check_call(["thrift", "-r", "--gen", "py", "ax/ax_types.thrift"])
+
+        for root, _dirs, files in os.walk("gen-py"):
+            for filename in files:
+                if filename == "ttypes.py":
+                    old_path = os.path.join(root, filename)
+                    new_path = os.path.join(root, "thrift_types.py")
+                    os.rename(old_path, new_path)
+                    print(f"Renamed {old_path} to {new_path}")
+
+        if os.path.exists("gen-py"):
+            for item in os.listdir("gen-py"):
+                src = os.path.join("gen-py", item)
+                dst = os.path.join("ax", item)
+                if os.path.isdir(src):
+                    if os.path.exists(dst):
+                        shutil.rmtree(dst)
+                    shutil.copytree(src, dst)
+                    print(f"Copied {src} to {dst}")
+                elif os.path.isfile(src):
+                    shutil.copy2(src, dst)
+                    print(f"Copied {src} to {dst}")
+
+        super().run()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6885300f09a..61058141b97 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pyre-extensions",
     "sympy",
     "markdown",
+    "thrift",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ find = {}
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
 "*" = ["*.js", "*.css", "*.html"]
 
+[tool.setuptools.cmdclass]
+build_py = "build_thrift:build_py"
+
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 write_to = "ax/version.py"
 local_scheme = "node-and-date"