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Knowledge Architecture

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415.523.0410
We help architects and engineers find, share, and manage knowledge.

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Introducing Advanced Employee Search

June 2, 2025 Christopher Parsons

Finding the right person with the right expertise at the right time is one of the most persistent challenges in AEC firms. 

That’s why we built Advanced Employee Search—a powerful new AI search feature in our Synthesis intranet platform that helps employees find the experts they need, when they need them, whether they’re searching by role, skills, certifications, committees, or experience.

Advanced Employee Search combines structured employee data from integrations with AEC software like Deltek, Unanet, aec360, and OpenAsset, with unstructured employee data from intranet pages, documents, videos, and posts. The result: AI-powered answers that connect your team directly to the experts they need.

In this short video, you’ll see how Synthesis can answer questions like:

  • Who are our registered architects in California?

  • Who’s on the sustainability committee?

  • Who can help me plan a flexible wet lab?

  • Who is our mass timber expert?

  • Who can I ask about reclaimed structural steel? 

You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how Advanced Employee Search uses Agentic RAG (retrieval augmented generation with reasoning and tools), and a preview of the next Synthesis AI Search feature we’re working on: Advanced Project Search.

If your firm is curious about how Synthesis can support knowledge sharing, expertise discovery, and intranet search, we’d love to show you how it works.

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A Single Search Box for Firmwide Knowledge

February 13, 2025 Christopher Parsons

What if you could have a conversation with your firm’s knowledge?

Synthesis AI Search gives AEC firms a single search box for firmwide knowledge—helping you instantly find the answers you need across intranet content, project data, and industry software like Deltek, Unanet, aec360, OpenAsset, Newforma, and Zendesk.

Less time searching. More time doing the work you love.

In this video overview, we'll show you how Synthesis AI Search helps:

→ Design Technology Teams find expert guidance on BIM, Revit, and more.
→ Marketing Teams instantly pull vetted employees and project data for proposals and communications.
→ Practice Leaders surface best practices on sustainability, materials, and firm standards.
→ HR Teams provide quick, clear answers to employee questions.

It’s like having a research assistant embedded in your firm—so your team can spend less time searching and more time designing, building, and growing.

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BEHIND THE SCENES | Building Our AEC-Specific Video Transcription Model

June 3, 2024 Knowledge Architecture

Over the last several months we've been building Version 1 of our AEC-specific video transcription model for Synthesis native videos, the first project in our Community AI program. Last week, after several rounds of internal alpha testing, we released this model to a limited number of clients as part of the Synthesis Video 2 beta.

We created this Behind the Scenes video to explain how:

  • Video captions + transcripts will provide accessibility, search, and ultimately LMS benefits to Synthesis users.

  • Knowledge Architecture’s AEC-specific video transcription model performs compared to the generic video transcription model from Microsoft. (Hint — quite well!)

  • Our step-by-step process for building and testing the AEC-specific video transcription model works.

  • We protect confidentiality and intellectual property through de-identification and data masking.

  • Terms and sentences we have extracted from firms participating in our Community AI program to train our model have been highly valuable.

We hope this video leaves you feeling more knowledgeable and excited about Knowledge Architecture’s  approach to AI and our Community AI program.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

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Introducing Synthesis Responsive

October 23, 2023 Christopher Parsons

We’re excited to announce Synthesis Responsive is now available in all Synthesis 6 environments. The release of Synthesis Responsive means all end user facing content and tools are fully available on mobile phones and tablets, as well as desktop and laptop screens of all sizes.

You can access Synthesis 6 on a phone or tablet using the same URL you are currently using on your desktop or laptop.

Enjoy!

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