LaunchAI
Action language
The plain-English instructions a workflow is written in, like click "Approve." More than 50 actions, all readable and editable by a process owner.
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LaunchAI terms
25 terms
LaunchAI
Agent PC
A machine set aside to run agents, such as a spare desktop left on overnight.
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Application training
A one-time pass where a small model explores an app's screens and builds a navigation map every agent shares.
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Atomic step
The smallest unit of a workflow. It does one thing, checks the result, and keeps its own record, so a failure points to one step.
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Copilot
The assistant in the workflow builder. It drafts a change, shows before and after, and waits for your approval.
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Credential vault
Encrypted storage for the few logins an agent cannot avoid. Workflows reference an entry by name and never see the value.
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Dual-Path Rule Engine
LaunchAI's decision layer. Exact rules run with no model; messy, visual judgment goes to a model; often the model reads and the rule decides.
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Enrolled device
A machine registered to run agents. Revoking it stops its agents.
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Evidence package
A tamper-evident export of one or many runs, ready to hand to an auditor.
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Human review step
A point where the agent stops and a person decides, with the agent's work beside the source document.
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LaunchAI Studio
The desktop app where you build, run, and manage agents. You describe the job, show steps on screen, and approve each one as the agent performs it live.
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Model routing
How LaunchAI picks a model for each question, by difficulty unless you pin one.
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Named variable
A slot such as invoice number that your demo values become, so each run uses real data.
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Portal
The shared web view where reviewers work their queue, owners edit rules, and managers watch runs.
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Process Atlas
LaunchAI's catalog of 1,554 back-office processes across three industries and 18 platforms.
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Readiness check
The pre-flight test before every run: workflow approved, machine online, inputs present.
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Receipts
The evidence kept for every action: before and after screenshots, where it clicked, what it typed, and when.
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Rules and Tables
Business-owned rules and lookup tables that agents read live at run time, versioned on every edit.
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Run console
The operations view for scheduling, watching, pausing, and changing agents in production.
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Stay logged in
The default sign-in model: the agent works inside sessions a person already opened, so it rarely sees a password.
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Surgical change
Changing one element of a live workflow, like a rule or a single step, and nothing else.
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Trigger
An event that starts a run, like a file in a folder, a new email, or a webhook.
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Value lineage
The chain linking a value in your ERP back to the exact spot on the source document it came from.
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Vision Layer
The part of LaunchAI that sees and uses software through the screen: look, find, act, verify.
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Workflow fence
The declared list of apps and folders a workflow may touch. Anything else is refused.
AI agent terms
23 terms
AI agents
Accessibility tree
The structured list of on-screen elements an operating system exposes for assistive tech. The quickest exact way to find a button when an app provides one.
AI agents
Agent development kit (ADK)
An industry term for a toolkit that builds, runs, and manages AI agents, such as Google ADK.
AI agents
Agent framework
A code library for building agents over APIs, like LangGraph or CrewAI. Engineers write and maintain the agent.
AI agents
Attended vs. unattended automation
Attended runs on a person's machine while they work; unattended runs alone on a dedicated machine.
AI agents
Browser agent
An agent that only works inside a web browser, often a cloud-hosted one.
AI agents
Computer-use agent
An agent that uses a computer like a person, reading the screen and sending mouse and keyboard input.
AI agents
Confidence threshold
The score below which a model's answer is not acted on and goes to a person instead.
AI agents
Datacenter IP
An internet address owned by a cloud provider. Bot defenses treat it as riskier than an office connection.
AI agents
Hallucination
Model output that sounds certain but is false, like a total that appears nowhere on the invoice.
AI agents
Headless browser
A browser with no visible window, driven by code. Bot defenses are built to spot them.
AI agents
Human in the loop
A design where a person approves or decides at set points. The real question is where to put them.
AI agents
Integration platform (iPaaS)
A service like Zapier or Workato that connects apps through their APIs. Its reach ends where its connectors do.
AI agents
Intelligent document processing (IDP)
Software that extracts fields from documents. Posting, matching, and review still remain.
AI agents
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
An open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools. It only helps where someone has built a server for that system.
AI agents
OCR
Software that turns pixels of text into characters.
AI agents
Parallel run
A test period where an agent and a person do the same work and the results are compared.
AI agents
Prompt injection
Hidden instructions in a document or web page that try to redirect an agent.
AI agents
RPA
Software bots that replay scripted clicks and keystrokes. They break when a screen changes.
AI agents
Schema validation
Checking a model's answer against expected fields and types before anything uses it.
AI agents
SOP
A written description of how a task is done. An agent-ready SOP puts one action on each line.
AI agents
Swivel-chair work
Re-keying data from one screen into another by hand.
AI agents
Terminal emulator
Software that shows an older system's text-only screens, often green on black, on a modern PC.
AI agents
Webhook
A message one system sends another the moment something happens.
Manufacturing terms
25 terms
Manufacturing
Advance ship notice (ASN)
An electronic notice of what a shipment contains before it arrives.
Manufacturing
Available-to-promise (ATP)
The quantity not yet committed to other orders, and when it can ship.
Manufacturing
Backflush
Automatically posting component use when an operation is reported complete, based on the BOM.
Manufacturing
Bill of lading (BOL)
The carrier's document for a shipment: a receipt for the goods and the terms of carriage.
Manufacturing
Bill of materials (BOM)
The list of components and quantities needed to make one unit.
Manufacturing
CAPA
Corrective and preventive action: find a problem's root cause, fix it, and prevent a repeat.
Manufacturing
Cycle count
Counting a rotating slice of inventory on a schedule instead of a full shutdown count.
Manufacturing
EDI 850, 855, 860
Electronic purchase order, PO acknowledgment, and PO change.
Manufacturing
ECR and ECO
The request to change a part, drawing, or BOM, and the approved order that releases it.
Manufacturing
First article inspection (FAI)
A full inspection of the first part from a new process, tool, or supplier.
Manufacturing
Job traveler
The packet that moves with a job through the shop: steps, drawing revision, lots, sign-offs.
Manufacturing
Landed cost
Unit price plus freight, duties, and handling to get an item to your dock.
Manufacturing
Lot traceability
Following a lot or serial number from receipt through every job and shipment.
Manufacturing
MES
Manufacturing execution system: shop-floor software that records labor, machine time, and quantities.
Manufacturing
MRP
The ERP calculation that nets demand against stock and proposes planned orders and exceptions.
Manufacturing
MRB
Material review board: the group that decides what to do with nonconforming material.
Manufacturing
NCR
Nonconformance report: the record opened when material fails a requirement.
Manufacturing
OEE
Overall equipment effectiveness: availability times performance times quality.
Manufacturing
PPAP
Production part approval process: a supplier's proof that its process makes the part to spec.
Manufacturing
PPV
Purchase price variance: price paid versus standard cost, times quantity.
Manufacturing
RMA
Return material authorization: the approval that lets a customer send a product back.
Manufacturing
Routing
The ordered list of operations and work centers for making an item.
Manufacturing
S&OP
Sales and operations planning: the monthly cycle that balances demand with supply and capacity.
Manufacturing
SCAR
Supplier corrective action request: a formal demand that a supplier fix a defect's root cause.
Manufacturing
Three-way match
Checking an invoice against the PO for price and the receipt for quantity before paying.
Construction terms
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Construction
AIA G702 and G703
The standard payment application: G702 is the request, G703 the line-by-line continuation sheet.
Construction
Bid leveling
Normalizing competing subcontractor bids to the same scope before comparing prices.
Construction
Bonding capacity
How much work a surety will bond for a contractor, per job and in total.
Construction
Buyout
Turning an awarded estimate into signed subcontracts and purchase orders.
Construction
Certified payroll
A weekly report proving prevailing wages were paid on public construction work.
Construction
Certificate of insurance (COI)
A one-page summary of a party's insurance. It is evidence of coverage, not coverage.
Construction
Change order
A signed change to a contract's scope, price, or schedule.
Construction
Closeout
End-of-job work: punch list, as-builts, manuals, warranties, final waivers, and retention release.
Construction
Commitment
A signed subcontract or PO recorded against a job's budget.
Construction
Cost code
The code that classifies job cost by type of work, like concrete forming.
Construction
Cost-to-complete and EAC
The forecast of cost still to spend, and that forecast plus cost to date.
Construction
Daily report
The site record of one day: manpower, equipment, weather, deliveries, and work done.
Construction
Fade
A drop in a job's projected profit percentage from one month to the next.
Construction
Joint check
A check payable to both a subcontractor and its supplier.
Construction
Lien waiver
A document giving up lien rights for an amount paid. Conditional waivers take effect when payment clears.
Construction
Over and under billing
Billing ahead of earned revenue, or earned revenue not yet billed.
Construction
Pay-when-paid
A clause tying a sub's payment timing to when the GC gets paid.
Construction
Prevailing wage
The minimum wage and fringe rates, by craft and county, on publicly funded work.
Construction
RFI
Request for information: a formal question to the design team about drawings or specs.
Construction
Retainage
A percentage of each payment held back until the work is complete.
Construction
Schedule of values (SOV)
The line-item breakdown of a contract that progress billing is measured against.
Construction
Submittal
A shop drawing, product sheet, or sample sent to the design team for review before use.
Construction
T&M ticket
A field record of labor, equipment, and materials on extra work. The owner's signature makes it billable.
Construction
WIP schedule
A report comparing each job's billings with earned revenue. Sureties and lenders read it closely.
Property management terms
24 terms
Property management
Adverse action notice
The notice a landlord must send when a credit or background report affects a denial or worse terms.
Property management
Base year and expense stop
Two ways a commercial lease caps a tenant's share of operating costs.
Property management
CAM gross-up
Adjusting variable building costs to a set occupancy so vacancy does not skew each tenant's share.
Property management
CAM reconciliation
The annual true-up of common area charges against actual costs, tenant by tenant.
Property management
EIV
Enterprise Income Verification: HUD's system for checking assisted tenants' income data.
Property management
Estoppel certificate
A tenant's signed confirmation of lease facts for a buyer or lender.
Property management
HAP
Housing assistance payment: the subsidy paid to an owner for an assisted household.
Property management
HOA assessment
The regular or special charge an owners' association levies on each home.
Property management
HOTMA
A federal housing law that changed income and asset rules in HUD-assisted housing.
Property management
HUD-50059
The form recording an assisted household's income, rent, and assistance.
Property management
ILS
Internet listing service: a rental listing site fed from the property platform.
Property management
Lease abstraction
Turning a lease document into structured fields like rent steps, options, and dates.
Property management
LIHTC certification
Proof of a household's income eligibility for a tax-credit unit.
Property management
Lockbox
A bank service that receives and deposits rent checks and sends a payment file.
Property management
Make-ready
The work between move-out and the next move-in. Also called a unit turn.
Property management
NSF
A payment the bank returns unpaid.
Property management
NSPIRE
HUD's physical inspection standard for assisted housing.
Property management
Owner statement
The monthly report to each owner: income, expenses, reserves, and distributions.
Property management
Rent roll
The list of every unit with its tenant, lease dates, rent, and balance.
Property management
RUBS
Ratio utility billing: splitting a utility bill across units by formula when units are not metered.
Property management
Security deposit disposition
The itemized deductions and refund sent after move-out, by a state deadline.
Property management
Tenant ledger
The running record of every charge and payment on one lease.
Property management
TRACS
HUD's system for receiving tenant certifications and monthly subsidy vouchers.
Property management
Trust account
A bank account holding money that belongs to others, like security deposits.
Finance and control terms
11 terms
Finance
1099-NEC
The IRS form for nonemployee pay. For payments after 2025, the filing threshold is $2,000.
Finance
Accrued receipt
A liability for goods received before the invoice arrives.
Finance
Bank covenant
A loan condition the borrower must meet and certify on a schedule.
Finance
Bank reconciliation
Matching every bank statement line to the ledger and explaining every difference.
Finance
Business email compromise (BEC)
Email fraud that impersonates a vendor or executive to redirect a payment.
Finance Control
Positive pay
A bank control that flags any presented check that does not match your issued-check file.
Finance
Sales tax exemption certificate
A buyer's signed statement that a purchase is tax-exempt.
Finance Control
Segregation of duties
No single person initiates, approves, records, and reconciles the same transaction.
Finance Control
Vendor bank-change call-back
Confirming a vendor's new bank details by calling a number already on file.
Finance
W-9 and TIN matching
A vendor's tax ID form, and the IRS check that the name and number match.
Finance
Warranty reserve
The liability a manufacturer books for expected warranty costs.
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