The terms, defined plainly.
The vocabulary that comes up in enterprise AI procurement and security review, defined without the marketing layer. Each definition is the answer we would give in a briefing.
7 terms
Agentic AI
Agentic AI describes a system where a language model plans and executes a multi-step task using tools, rather than only producing text. It decides...
Read the definitionBYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)
Bring-your-own-cloud is a deployment model where the vendor's software runs inside the customer's own cloud account rather than the vendor's. The...
Read the definitionHuman-in-the-Loop (HITL)
Human-in-the-loop means an automated system pauses at a defined point and requires a person to approve before it proceeds. In an agentic system the...
Read the definitionPrompt Injection
Prompt injection is an attack where instructions are hidden inside content a language model processes — a document, a database field, a tool...
Read the definitionEmail Deliverability
Email deliverability is whether a message reaches the inbox rather than the spam folder. It is decided mainly by the sending domain's reputation,...
Read the definitionSemantic Layer
A semantic layer is where a business metric is defined once, in a form that can be inspected, versioned, and secured, so every report that references...
Read the definitionRequirements Traceability
Requirements traceability is the recorded link between a requirement and the test cases that verify it, in both directions. Forward traceability...
Read the definitionPast the definitions?
The solution pages describe how each of these is actually implemented, and the blog argues the design decisions behind them.