We build software, community, and best practices to help AEC firms evolve and grow.
Over 130 top firms run 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 Content 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.
Learn about launching and growing successful intranets from KA Community members.
Jump start your intranet design process with our Design Inspiration Gallery.
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KA Connect 2024 | Sundance
KA Connect 2024, our annual knowledge management conference for the AEC industry, will take place at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Sundance, Utah from August 13th to August 16th, 2024.
Learn more about Knowledge Management through our KA Connect Talk Archive.
Want to learn more about Synthesis?
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