Access and escalation
Release status, structural concerns, utilities, weather openings and professional boundaries.
Fire & Smoke Knowledge Architecture
Fire & Smoke Knowledge Layer
A structured framework that lets SDM Intelligence reason across a fire loss by incident condition, residue, pathway, material, building system, contents and restoration sequence instead of returning one generic “smoke cleanup” answer.
What the knowledge layer stores
Condition, not labels alone
Dry particulate, oily film, baked-on residue, protein-like contamination, ash, char and mixed conditions.
Where contamination traveled
Rooms, HVAC, openings, cavities, attics, shafts, chases and pressure relationships.
Substrate-specific response
Walls, ceilings, floors, wood, masonry, insulation, framing, metals, textiles, electronics and contents.
What happens first
Safety → documentation → source control → cleaning → deodorization → appropriate sealing → verification.
What is not yet known
Observed facts stay separate from inference, inaccessible conditions and conclusions requiring specialists.
How this changes the Incident Builder
The Fire and Smoke/Soot paths now capture fourteen condition groups each, expanding the original six-question pathways into deeper diagnostic flows. The added fields cover weather-envelope exposure, HVAC operation, material groups, prior disturbance, odor gradients, time-sensitive surface changes, concealed pathways and protection of cleaned zones.
Privacy and provenance boundary
The public site contains SDM’s original structured logic and explanations. Private training materials used to inform internal development are not distributed or embedded in this website build. Public-facing claims should continue to be validated against appropriate authoritative sources where safety, regulation, manufacturer instructions or licensed-professional boundaries are involved.
Next layer: material diagnostics
The material-diagnostics layer turns the knowledge architecture into residue, material, HVAC, contents, mixed-hazard and verification decision paths.
Open Material Diagnostics