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Grounding the Machine: Using Semantic Modeling (Haystack/Brick) as a Guardrail for Building AI

November 3, 2026

Large language models are good at sounding right about buildings. Without a rigid semantic foundation underneath them, they invent point names and misread how equipment is connected.

Zack Allen (Senior Project Engineer, Stok) and Jason Breede (VP, Engineering, Stok) show how a semantic model built on Project Haystack and Brick Schema becomes the retrieval layer that keeps AI inside the building's real metadata, so answers trace back to actual points and relationships.

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Large language models are good at sounding right about buildings. Without a rigid semantic foundation underneath them, they invent point names and misread how equipment is connected.

Zack Allen (Senior Project Engineer, Stok) and Jason Breede (VP, Engineering, Stok) show how a semantic model built on Project Haystack and Brick Schema becomes the retrieval layer that keeps AI inside the building's real metadata, so answers trace back to actual points and relationships.

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