Find, share, and manage knowledge with Synthesis,
our AEC Intranet Platform.
Build a Searchable Firmwide Knowledge Base
Create one source of truth for your firm’s most essential content, whether it be practice area codes and standards, design technology how-tos and FAQs, firmwide templates and forms, or employee benefits and policies.
Stay Connected As Your Firm Evolves + Grows
Whether you are adding new offices, services, or markets, acquiring new firms, transitioning ownership, leadership, or organization structures, or any of the other common changes that AEC firms go through as they evolve and grow, Synthesis can help you engage your employees and make them feel like they are part of the process.
Offer On-Demand + Social Learning Opportunities
Upskill and engage your employees and amplify your learning + development program by centralizing video libraries, putting learning resources in context using pages and guides, promoting new learning programs, and crowdsourcing ideas and answers in our activity stream.
Discover Employee Skills, Experience, + Interests
Search, filter, and browse Employee Directories and dive deep into employee skills, experience, and interests with our highly configurable Employee Profiles, which integrate with Deltek, Unanet, OpenAsset, Azure Active Directory, and Teams.
Daylight Key Project Information
Search, filter, and browse Project Directories to discover projects by project type, client, state, square footage, construction cost, and more with data sourced from Deltek, Unanet, OpenAsset, and Newforma. Dive deeper into project images, data points, descriptions, employee teams, contacts, and more with our highly configurable Project Profiles.
Create + Maintain Beautiful Content
We designed Synthesis to empower non-technical content owners to easily create and maintain beautiful content on their own. Configuration wizards, content blocks, drag-and-drop, and page templates make it a pleasure to build your firmwide knowledge base.
Reinforce Your Firm's Brand
Configure your colors, fonts, logos, text styles, and more to make Synthesis feel like home for your brand.
Integrate With Your Core Software Stack
Synthesis integrates with leading AEC industry software to give you one searchable source of truth.
Keep Your Intranet Secure
Knowledge Architecture is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, which underscores our commitment to safeguard the privacy and security of your intranet, your firm, and your data. Our Trust Center, powered by Drata, provides real-time transparency into our security posture and the opportunity to review our security attestations, reports, and policies.
Why Synthesis?
AEC Industry Focus
Knowledge Architecture has focused on helping AEC firms and professionals evolve and grow since our founding in 2009. Our product roadmap is 100% driven by the hopes, dreams, and needs of AEC firms.
The Right Integrations
Synthesis integrates with leading AEC industry software like Deltek, Unanet, aec360, Microsoft Dynamics 365, OpenAsset, and Newforma — giving you one searchable source of truth.
Commitment to Client Success
Clients of Knowledge Architecture receive so much beyond software. We designed our Client Success Program to not only help our clients successfully launch Synthesis, but also to continually improve their firm’s intranet and knowledge management program long after they’ve gone live.
Best Practices for AEC Intranets
Almost all of Knowledge Architecture’s intranet best practices are co-created with our clients. We share these best practices with our wider client base to help them improve their intranet programs.
Come for the Software. Stay for the Community.
When you become a Knowledge Architecture client you become a member of the KA Community. The KA Community provides a rich variety of opportunities to learn from and with other Synthesis clients and the Knowledge Architecture team, including our annual KA Connect conference, quarterly Client Roundtables, monthly Intranet Tours, and our dynamic online community.
Our Team
We understand your business. We speak your language. We share insights and best practices from over 130 firms around the world who run Synthesis. Plus, people seem to like us.
See Synthesis in Action
Our monthly Intranet Tours provide a great way to see how other AEC firms use Synthesis to evolve and grow their firms.
Jump start your intranet design process with our Design Inspiration Gallery.
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