Search powered by intelligence, designed for creativity

Goodbye scrolling, hello intelligent search

We all know the frustrations around conversing with a search box. You put in a request for a Japanese-style table for your meditation room, but are served a bunch of lacquered side-tables. You want a cozy armchair for a reading nook, but are presented with every chair that was ever designed. So often, without the exact right words, the algorithms struggle to identify what you are looking for. Change, however, is on its way.

Architonic’s newly-developed, smart discovery tools are set to bring fresh accuracy to your product searches, whether it’s words or visuals that are your preferred method of communication. No more guess-the-keyword, no more words lost in translation, no more scrolling through results that are wildly off the mark. It is enough to upload an image or describe in your own words what you are seeking, and our intelligent search will find it.

Say it how it is

There are two advanced search tools to choose from: the upgraded Standard Search and the enhanced Visual Search. Both are available across the platform – including when logged into Architonic Studio, our new creative workspace, and through plugins for popular tools like Miro, Figma or Adobe. The new text-based Standard Search is something of a game-changer in the field of product discovery. It doesn’t rely on matching the words that you input to existing product titles and descriptions in the database. It’s no longer about chancing on the right keywords, but about the system having the intelligence to interpret your intent.

You can articulate the particulars of the product that you wish to search with the sort of everyday language that you use when speaking to colleagues and collaborators. Descriptions can be direct or nuanced, precise or loose; the AI-powered filter will recognise synonyms, variations in phrasing and context and pull up accurate results, ranked in order of relevance. The analysis is quick and efficient, getting you to what you are looking for in one swift move.

Show us what you mean

Visual Search is also completely reengineered to offer more creative ways to find products. You can now drag and drop a sketch, a photo, a screenshot or even your entire mood board into the search box. Image uploads will be analysed intuitively. The system quickly returns products from the Architonic database that are visually similar. It’s simple to use, and opens up new avenues for exploration and inspiration to those who like to communicate their ideas in pictures.

The more you search, the better we find

Behind the scenes we have been working hard to evolve our search technology, because we know fast, efficient and accurate discovery makes all the difference to the design professional’s workflow. It has involved feeding our system with extensive training data and sophisticated algorithms to deliver the elevated results. Our machines have learnt a lot, but so have we. And we want to keep learning. Today we are able to bring you vastly superior search functions, but in order to serve you to the highest standards tomorrow, we need to keep moving.

We will continue to evolve, alongside our product catalogue, and to learn from your search patterns and experience. Continuous optimisation is our goal; we’ll monitor how your searches perform, and make sure we are always meeting your needs. Because we don’t ever just want to give you a blue sofa. We want to give you a soft-edged powder blue three-seater, fit for the laid-back coastal retreat that’s on your drawing board, just like you asked.