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Last updated 2026-08-19

agent workforce: An agent workforce is a set of AI agents that together cover the operational functions a company would otherwise hire for, each running a defined function under a human approval gate rather than acting as a general assistant.
agentic automation: Agentic automation is automation in which software decides the steps needed to reach a stated goal, rather than following a fixed sequence defined in advance by the person who configured it.
approval gate: An approval gate is a control point that blocks a defined class of automated action from executing until a person approves it, enforced by the system rather than by instructing the model to be careful.
content-hashed build: A content-hashed build is an immutable build artifact identified by a hash of its own contents, so that a given identifier always refers to exactly the same software and deploying or rolling back is a pointer change.
human-in-the-loop: Human-in-the-loop is a system design in which an automated process pauses at defined points and waits for a person to approve, reject or amend before continuing, rather than running to completion unsupervised.
lead scoring: Lead scoring is the practice of ranking prospective customers by their predicted likelihood of converting, so that limited sales attention is spent on the leads most likely to be worth it.
repair loop: A repair loop is an automated cycle that takes a verification failure, feeds the actual error back into generation, and re-runs the checks, repeating until the software passes or the attempt is abandoned.
sales forecasting: Sales forecasting is the prediction of how much revenue will close within a defined period, expressed as a range or a probability rather than a single figure, based on the current pipeline and past outcomes.
sandbox isolation: Sandbox isolation is the practice of running each project’s generation and verification in its own separate environment, so that no project can observe or affect another and every result reflects that project alone.
scaffold: A scaffold is a pre-built, already-tested project that generation starts from, so that a model modifies working software instead of inventing project structure from an empty directory.
verification chain: A verification chain is an ordered sequence of automated checks that generated software must pass before it is delivered, arranged cheapest first so that failures are caught by the fastest check that can catch them.
zero-employee company: A zero-employee company is a business that has revenue, customers and operations but no payroll, because the functions a company would normally hire for are run by software under an owner’s supervision.