Introducing Advanced Employee Search

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.

A Single Search Box for Firmwide Knowledge

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.

Introducing Page Sections + Anchor Links

We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Page Sections + Anchor Links for Synthesis.

This new feature allows users to:

• Search for Page Sections – Search now surfaces specific page sections in suggestions and results, allowing users to navigate directly to the relevant content.

• Automatic Scroll & Expand – Clicking on a page section from search scrolls you to the correct page section and expands collapsible content when necessary.

• Anchor Links – Each section has a unique, shareable link that can be copied and used in emails, Teams, Slack, or Synthesis posts.

• New Linking Options – Users can link directly to specific page sections from text links in posts and pages, the content outliner, image blocks, navigation blocks, and Best Bets.

We’ll release this update after the close of business on Friday, February 14th to all Knowledge Architecture clients.

Enjoy!

Introducing Synthesis AI Search Filters

We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Synthesis AI Search Filters.

This new feature allows users to curate the sources used to generate AI search summaries and top results.

Users can filter by various criteria, such as a specific community, guide, library, content type, and last updated, which helps to narrow down the search results and improve the relevance of the information retrieved.

We will release this update after the close of business on Friday, January 24th to all Knowledge Architecture clients currently in the Synthesis AI Search public beta.

Enjoy!

Searching Videos with Synthesis AI

For years, our AEC clients have uploaded a wide variety of videos to Synthesis — town halls, software training sessions, design education materials, and more.

Earlier this year, we upgraded our video technology to include automatic transcriptions, enabling captions and fully searchable transcripts for all videos uploaded to Synthesis. This enhancement addressed two critical needs: accessibility and search.

By combining advanced AI capabilities with video content, we’re empowering firms to unlock the valuable knowledge hidden within their video libraries.

In this short video, we demonstrate how Synthesis AI Search goes beyond traditional search by synthesizing summaries that span all intranet content, including videos.

Each summary includes citations, and when the source is a video, hovering over the citation reveals the video, the precise timestamp of the quoted passage, and even takes you directly to that moment in the video when clicked.

This seamless integration of AI, search, and video offers a revolutionary new way to access and use video content.

If you like to learn more about how Synthesis AI Search can help your firm make the best use of your knowledge, you can schedule a demo or email us at info@knowledge-architecture.com.