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Capabilities

Active Project Research

Allow project members to ask time-saving questions, perform research, and run workflows across all project data. The Nomic agent understands your active project context and helps you find information quickly without digging through files and folders.

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Supported Context​

How to Use​

Active Project Research enables you to search across all your project data using natural language. Nomic understands your project context and can find specific details, surface information, and help you navigate complex project documentation.

1

Set Up Your Project Data

Ensure your project data is available to Nomic:

Connect an Integration

Set up the Autodesk Forma or Bentley integration

or

Upload Project Files

Upload drawings, specifications, and project files directly

2

Index Your Project Files

Research quality depends on indexed files. Indexing extracts text and data from drawings, PDFs, and documents, then embeds it so the Nomic agent can retrieve across the whole project rather than reading files one at a time.

Uploaded PDFs and legacy Office files index automatically. Everything else — including every file brought in by a SharePoint, Autodesk Forma, Bentley, or Fieldwire sync — needs Index Folder on the folder (or Index Document on a single file). Run Index Folder once on a synced folder and it keeps covering files that arrive later. See Indexing for what each file type does.

Project context for SharePoint and Egnyte: If you're using SharePoint or Egnyte integrations without a project delivery software integration (like Autodesk Forma or Bentley), attach the relevant synced folders in Project Settings → Project Context. Project context tells Nomic which files belong to your active project and keeps research scoped to the right documents.

3

Ask Questions and Research

Once your project is indexed, you can ask the Nomic agent questions about your project:

  • Find specific details - "What's the wall thickness for the exterior walls on Level 2?"

  • Search across documents - "Show me all references to fire rating requirements"

  • Compare information - "What's the difference between the structural drawings and the architectural drawings for the foundation?"

  • Get cited answers - Nomic provides specific references to files, drawings, and document sections