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Glossary
Plain language for serious AI work.
Folium Systems uses technical depth, but customers should not need jargon to understand the first step. This glossary explains common terms in operational language.
Glossary finder
Governance
AI Systems Audit
Plain English
A structured review of processes, data, tools, risks, staff readiness, and first build opportunities.
Technical meaning
Discovery and risk mapping across processes, data, systems, AI usage, owners, and first-build candidates.
Buyer question
Where should we start without buying the wrong AI tool?
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Demo Portal
Plain English
A working sandbox experience that lets stakeholders inspect a future process before production wiring.
Technical meaning
A static or sandboxed application surface used to test process behavior before production integration.
Buyer question
Can stakeholders inspect the idea before production wiring?
Knowledge
RAG
Plain English
Retrieval-augmented generation: a pattern where AI answers from selected sources instead of relying only on general model memory.
Technical meaning
A retrieval layer that selects approved source context and passes it into a model response path.
Buyer question
Can the AI answer from our approved knowledge instead of guessing?
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Human Review Point
Plain English
A required point where a person reviews, approves, rejects, or escalates AI-assisted work.
Technical meaning
A required point where a person inspects, approves, rejects, or escalates AI-assisted work.
Buyer question
Where does a person stay in control?
Architecture
Local AI
Plain English
AI that runs on hardware or infrastructure closer to the business, often for control, privacy, cost, or resilience reasons.
Technical meaning
Model execution on controlled hardware, private infrastructure, or customer-owned environments.
Buyer question
Can sensitive or costly work run closer to us?
Architecture
Hybrid AI
Plain English
An architecture that uses more than one runtime path, such as local models for private work and cloud APIs for broader tasks.
Technical meaning
A routed architecture that uses multiple model/runtime paths under one control layer.
Buyer question
Which tasks should be local, private, cloud, or routed?
Knowledge
AI Estate
Plain English
The collection of models, prompts, tools, agents, data sources, runtimes, logs, approvals, and operating records around AI.
Technical meaning
The managed portfolio of models, prompts, agents, tools, data sources, logs, releases, and controls.
Buyer question
Who owns all the AI pieces after launch?
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AI Orchestration Control Plane
Plain English
The operating layer that routes work across models, agents, memory, tools, people, runtime lanes, approvals, logs, rollback, and support.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Folium Tool Foundry
Plain English
The Folium capability for building or selecting the tools a workflow needs: assessment systems, review generators, routing utilities, model/eval helpers, launch-room assets, and market-standard integrations.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Sphere Of Influence
Plain English
Folium's public influence engine: useful language, buyer education, field manuals, review assets, partner enablement, and operating doctrine that help the market recognize serious AI work.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Operating Standard
Plain English
A reusable way to judge AI delivery through named workflows, boundaries, records, gates, support paths, and human ownership before a system earns more authority.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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AI Profitability Engineering
Plain English
Folium's discipline for making AI economically useful by narrowing the workflow, right-sizing the model and runtime, controlling recurring cost, and measuring cost per useful business output.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
Right-Sized Model
Plain English
The smallest capable model or system route that can perform the job safely, which may be a focused model, retrieval workflow, local CPU-capable path, rules-assisted agent, private endpoint, or cloud model.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Symbolic Coding
Plain English
Folium's delivery discipline for turning AI-assisted exploration into named workflows, states, data classes, API contracts, permissions, eval cases, records, launch gates, and operating handoff.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Records
Vibe Coding
Plain English
A fast exploratory style of AI-assisted building that can help with sketches, language, and prototypes, but should be converted into reviewable symbols, contracts, tests, and records before business dependency.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
Runtime Capacity Engineering
Plain English
The discipline of placing AI workloads across cloud, private, local, GPU, CPU, container, retrieval, and fallback routes based on risk, cost, latency, privacy, resilience, and support.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Provider Live Gate
Plain English
A readiness boundary that keeps external APIs, credentials, webhooks, contracts, monitoring, rollback, and support ownership pending until live authority is approved.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
AI Continuity
Plain English
The backup, restore, fallback, degraded-mode, evidence, incident, and relaunch discipline that keeps AI capability recoverable under pressure.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Evidence Bundle
Plain English
A timestamped review packet containing workflow maps, tests, screenshots, known limits, owners, support notes, decisions, and next-stage records.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
Escalation Fabric
Plain English
A notification and owner-routing layer that classifies AI signals by urgency and records delivery, acknowledgement, replay, escalation, and resolution.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
AI Operations Command Deck
Plain English
A reviewable operating surface for AI health, cost, incidents, model routes, agent fleet state, source freshness, release notes, support ownership, and rollback triggers.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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ModelOps And AgentOps
Plain English
The operating discipline for monitoring model behavior, agent behavior, route health, drift, failed actions, eval results, incidents, releases, and lifecycle states.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Private Model Lab
Plain English
A controlled environment for shaping, comparing, evaluating, and gating specialized model or advisor behavior before it becomes operational.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
Business Brain
Plain English
The source truth, policy, process memory, customer rules, owner decisions, knowledge network, and human judgment boundaries that AI must respect.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Agent Fleet
Plain English
A managed group of scoped AI agents with defined jobs, tool permissions, model routes, review points, logs, health checks, and lifecycle records.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Agentic API Governance
Plain English
The use of API contracts, permissions, rate limits, tool scopes, data classes, audit logs, fail-closed behavior, and action gates to control agent tool use.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Human-Gated Autonomous Operations
Plain English
A workflow design where AI can observe, recommend, route, or draft quickly, while state-changing, risky, customer-impacting, or expensive actions pass through human gates.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Dark Code
Plain English
Old, hidden, stale, or poorly understood scripts, automations, prompts, routes, dependencies, or exposed services that may affect AI behavior or security without clear ownership.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Records
Review Binder
Plain English
A review file containing scope, tests, screenshots, known limits, owners, launch requirements, and production requirements.
Technical meaning
A file that packages scope, tests, screenshots, owners, risks, limits, and next-stage decisions.
Buyer question
What records do reviewers need before the next stage?
Records
Launch Readiness Review
Plain English
A required review point where owners compare records, risks, approvals, support readiness, and rollback paths before advancing an AI process.
Technical meaning
A formal advancement decision tied to records, support readiness, rollback, approval, and monitoring.
Buyer question
What must be true before this process advances?
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Precondition Ladder
Plain English
A list of what must become true before a process, model, agent, or integration is allowed to move to the next stage.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Governance
Service Boundary Contract
Plain English
A plain-language operating agreement that names what a delegated service may do, what it may not own, what records it returns, and when it must stop.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Rollback Trigger
Plain English
A specific signal that tells the team to pause, revert, or return to a safer mode, even if the software is still technically online.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
No-Drift Migration
Plain English
A migration pattern that moves workload carefully while preserving source truth, ownership, review, recovery, and customer-facing honesty.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
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Binding Governance
Plain English
Governance that is enforced by the system through approvals, access limits, logs, fail-closed behavior, and human approval points instead of only being written in policy.
Technical meaning
Operational AI term translated into a practical review or implementation decision.
Buyer question
What business decision does this term help us make?
Knowledge
Evaluation Scorecard
Plain English
A structured record of how an AI process performed across answer quality, source grounding, safe actions, reliability, latency, and critical failures.
Technical meaning
A scoring model for answer quality, process completion, groundedness, safe actions, latency, and failure modes.
Buyer question
How do we know the process is reliable enough?
Architecture
Data Boundary
Plain English
The rules that decide what information AI can see, where it can travel, how it is masked or retained, and what actions require human approval.
Technical meaning
The policy and technical control surface for what data AI can access, retain, transform, or route.
Buyer question
What data can AI see, where can it go, and who approves exceptions?
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