Automathing glossary
The practical language of AI, automation, and operations.
Clear definitions for leaders building systems that create measurable business outcomes. No hype. No detached theory.
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Applied AI
Capabilities that help teams reason, create, and act.
AI Engineering
The practices that make AI systems dependable in production.
Automation
Workflows that remove repeated operational effort.
Business Operations
Ways to understand, improve, and scale how work moves.
Systems & Integration
The connections that let business systems work as one.
31 concepts
Applied AI
Applied AI
AI used to improve a specific business decision, workflow, or customer experience.
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Generative AI
AI that creates new text, images, code, audio, or structured content from a prompt.
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AI Agent
An AI system that can reason through a task and use approved tools to complete parts of it.
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Agentic AI
AI designed to plan, use tools, and take sequenced actions toward an assigned goal.
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Large Language Model (LLM)
A model trained to understand and generate natural-language content.
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
A pattern that gives an AI model relevant external information before it answers.
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Computer Vision
AI that extracts meaning from images, video, and visual documents.
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AI Orchestration
The coordination of AI prompts, tools, data, steps, and human approvals into one reliable flow.
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AI Evaluation
A repeatable way to measure whether an AI system is accurate, useful, safe, and consistent enough.
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AI Guardrails
Rules, checks, and limits that keep AI behavior within safe and useful boundaries.
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Embeddings
Numeric representations that let software compare the meaning of text, images, or other content.
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Vector Database
A database optimized to store and search embeddings by similarity.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
A standard way for AI applications to discover and use tools and data sources.
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Workflow Automation
Software that moves work, information, and approvals through a repeatable process.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Software bots that imitate repetitive actions a person performs in existing interfaces.
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Intelligent Automation
Automation that combines rules-based workflows with AI for language, documents, or decisions.
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AI Automation
Automation that uses AI to interpret, generate, classify, or decide within a workflow.
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Human in the Loop
A design where a person reviews, approves, corrects, or handles exceptions in an automated system.
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Automation Priority
A way to rank processes by expected value, feasibility, and risk before investing in automation.
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Process Mapping
A visual view of how work, decisions, people, and systems move from start to finish.
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Process Mining
The use of system event data to see how a process actually happens over time.
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Business Process Management (BPM)
A discipline for designing, operating, measuring, and improving recurring business processes.
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Bottleneck
The constraint that limits how quickly or reliably a process can deliver its outcome.
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Operational Excellence
The ongoing ability to deliver valuable work reliably, efficiently, and with room to improve.
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AI Readiness
The degree to which an organization has the conditions to use AI responsibly and productively.
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API
A defined interface that lets one software system request data or actions from another.
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Systems Integration
The design of connections that let separate business systems share data and coordinate work.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
A core system for managing business resources such as finance, inventory, purchasing, and operations.
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
A system for managing customer, prospect, sales, and service relationships.
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Middleware
Software that sits between systems to translate, route, secure, or coordinate their communication.
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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
A cloud platform for building, operating, and monitoring integrations between applications.
Explore conceptThe Automathing framework
Capability only matters when it becomes an outcome.
We connect the path from new technical capability to a useful operating result.
AI research
Creates new capabilities.
AI engineering
Makes them reliable systems.
Applied AI
Puts them to work on real problems.
Business outcome
Revenue, cost, time, quality, and risk.
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