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Getting Started with the Knowledge Center

How the Building Intelligence Knowledge Center is organized, who it serves, and how humans and AI systems retrieve knowledge from it.

Building Intelligence Knowledge Team Updated 2026-07-28 1 min read
  • Used by Liva AI
  • Referenced by EIE

The Building Intelligence Knowledge Center (BIKC) is the authoritative knowledge layer for the built environment. Every article here is written once and consumed many times — by permit technicians reading a checklist, by Liva answering a resident question, and by the Enterprise Intelligence Engine grounding a blueprint review finding in an adopted code edition.

How knowledge is structured

Documents

Structured articles with typed metadata, versions, and an approval status.

Jurisdictions

Country, state, county, and city records with departments, portals, and amendments.

Codes

Summarized guidance keyed to adopted editions — never a reproduction of code text.

Relationships

Explicit links between codes, permit types, blueprint components, and products.

Who this serves

AudienceTypical useVisibility
PublicPermit requirements, checklists, FAQsPublic
CustomersProduct configuration, workflows, APICustomer
PartnersIntegration contracts and certificationPartner
Municipal staffReview procedures and local amendmentsCustomer
Internal staffOperating procedures and escalation pathsInternal

Retrieval model

  1. 1

    Author

    Knowledge is authored as Markdown with typed frontmatter in the knowledge repository.

  2. 2

    Approve

    Every document moves through Draft, Review, and Approved before it is retrievable.

  3. 3

    Index

    Approved documents are chunked, embedded, and indexed by the Enterprise Intelligence Engine.

  4. 4

    Ground

    Liva, Blueprint Review, and city portals cite the indexed document rather than improvising.

Related documents

Blueprint Review

AI-assisted plan review that reads submittals, applies adopted code editions, and produces a defensible correction report.

Brisbane, California

Permitting, departments, adopted codes, local amendments, and inspection process for the City of Brisbane.

Authentication

Authentication for the Building Intelligence platform API.