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
Agentic AI
AI designed to plan, use tools, and take sequenced actions toward an assigned goal.
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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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AI Automation
Automation of steps that require interpretation, judgment, or unstructured input.
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AI Evaluation
Measuring whether an AI system produces acceptable results on cases that reflect reality.
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AI Guardrails
Controls that constrain what an AI system is allowed to say, do, and access.
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AI Orchestration
The layer that coordinates models, tools, data, and human steps into one dependable process.
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AI Readiness
Whether a business has the data access, process clarity, and ownership for AI to produce a result.
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API
A defined way for one software system to request data or actions from another.
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Applied AI
AI used to improve a specific business decision, workflow, or customer experience.
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Automation Priority
A way of ranking candidate processes so the first automation is the one that pays back fastest.
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Bottleneck
The step that limits how much work the whole process can complete.
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Business Process Management (BPM)
The ongoing discipline of designing, running, measuring, and improving how work gets done.
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Computer Vision
AI that extracts meaning from images, video, and scanned documents.
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CRM
A system that records every interaction with customers and prospects in one shared place.
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Embeddings
Numerical representations of text or images that let a computer compare meaning rather than words.
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ERP
A single system managing the core operational records of a business: finance, inventory, orders, and supply.
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Generative AI
AI that creates new text, images, code, audio, or structured content from a prompt.
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Human-in-the-Loop
A design where a person reviews, approves, or corrects the system at defined points.
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Intelligent Automation
Combining deterministic workflows with AI so a process can handle both routine cases and variation.
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iPaaS
A hosted platform for building and running integrations between business systems.
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Large Language Model (LLM)
A model trained to understand and generate natural-language content.
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Middleware
Software that sits between systems and handles the translation, routing, and reliability between them.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
An open standard for connecting AI systems to tools and data sources in a consistent way.
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Operational Excellence
Consistently delivering the intended result, at predictable cost, without depending on heroics.
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Process Mapping
Documenting how work actually moves through a business, step by step.
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Process Mining
Reconstructing how a process really runs by analysing the event logs your systems already produce.
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
A method that retrieves your own documents and gives them to a model before it answers.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Software that operates existing applications through their interface, the way a person would.
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Systems Integration
Connecting separate business systems so information moves between them reliably.
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Vector Database
A database built to find the items whose meaning is closest to a query.
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Workflow Automation
Software that runs a defined sequence of steps across systems without manual effort.
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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