Intelligence
Knowledge base
Your specs, submittals, and compliance records, made answerable. Connect your document sources and ask in plain language, with answers grounded in your own files.
A construction knowledge base connects a company’s documents, such as specifications, submittals, contracts, and compliance records, and makes them answerable in plain language. Instead of searching folders, a user asks a question and the system returns an answer grounded in the actual documents, with the source cited so it can be verified.
The problem
The answer exists, in a document nobody can find.
A contractor’s knowledge is scattered across thousands of documents in SharePoint, shared drives, and email: specifications, submittals, contracts, RFIs, and compliance records. The answer to a question is almost always in there somewhere, but finding it means knowing which folder and which version to open.
So the question goes to the one person who remembers, and the project waits on their availability. Institutional knowledge lives in people’s heads, and it walks out the door when they do.
Buildalytic connects your document sources, indexes them, and answers questions in plain language, grounded in the source files with citations. The knowledge becomes queryable instead of tribal.
How it works
From scattered files to answerable knowledge.
Connect the sources
Connect document sources such as SharePoint, with access scoped to your organization’s permissions.
Index the documents
Specifications, submittals, contracts, and records are indexed so their content is searchable by meaning, not just filename.
Ask in plain language
A user asks a question the way they would ask a colleague, and the system finds the relevant passages.
Answer with citations
The answer comes back grounded in the source documents, with the reference so it can be verified.
What is inside
Grounded answers, scoped to your data.
Document connectors
Connect sources such as SharePoint, honoring your existing access permissions.
Semantic search
Find content by meaning, not just keyword, across specs, submittals, and contracts.
Plain-language answers
Ask a question and get an answer, not a list of files to open.
Source citations
Every answer cites the document it came from so it can be checked.
Organization isolation
Your knowledge stays scoped to your organization and its permissions.
Custom to your library
Configured around your documents and how your teams actually ask.
Frequently asked questions
What is a construction knowledge base?
A construction knowledge base connects a company’s documents and makes them answerable in plain language. Rather than opening folders to hunt for a spec or submittal, a user asks a question and gets an answer drawn from the actual files, with the source cited. It turns scattered documents into queryable knowledge.
Which document sources can it connect to?
Buildalytic connects to document sources such as SharePoint, and configuration is tailored to where a given company keeps its records. Access is scoped to your organization’s existing permissions, so the knowledge base respects who is allowed to see what rather than exposing everything to everyone.
How is this different from regular document search?
Keyword search returns a list of files that contain a word and leaves the reading to you. A knowledge base searches by meaning, finds the relevant passages across documents, and returns a direct answer with a citation. You get the answer and the source, not a folder of possibly relevant files.
Does the knowledge base keep our data isolated?
Yes. Each organization’s knowledge is scoped to that organization and its permissions. Your documents and the answers drawn from them are not shared across companies. Access follows the permissions of the connected source, so the knowledge base does not widen who can see a given document.
Are the answers grounded in our own documents?
Yes. Answers are generated from your connected documents and cite the source they came from, so a user can open the referenced file to confirm. The system is built to answer from your records rather than from general knowledge, which is what makes the answers usable on a real project.
Make your documents answerable.
Connect a document source and ask it a real project question. We will show the answer and the citation behind it.