Terms & Glossary
A plain-language reference for the words we use. Browse the alphabetical list below, or click any term to open its own page — handy for sharing a single definition.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accountability gap | What standalone AI does not provide: no sources cited, no contributors identified, no verification chain, no audit trail. The accountability gap is why "the AI told me" is not a compliance defense any more than "my guy said it was fine." |
| AI disclaimer | The standard "this may contain errors or inaccuracies" notice that accompanies every AI response. The disclaimer is the gap between AI and action — and today, there are only two choices: ignore it and accept the risk, or close it manually and accept the delay. |
| Association (Governing Body) | The trusted Layer 2 certifier across all members' supply chains. Does not compete with members — enables trust across all of them. The independent Governing Body — member-led, not vendor-controlled — that no AI vendor can displace. |
| Bilateral agreement | A confidential, peer-to-peer content + verification agreement between two organizations on the network. Members do not share content with each other directly — every connection is a bilateral agreement. Your competitors' agreements are invisible to you, and yours to them. |
| Customer (downstream) | A governed self-service user on a member's platform, with access to published content at their level. Distributes RoC: every query they ask cites member content, generating value for the contributors whose knowledge informed the answer. |
| Executable governance | Governance that occurs as a natural consequence of one click — not as a separate activity performed after the fact. When a superstar clicks Get Verified, the infrastructure routes the AI-generated answer to the experts whose content was cited — at other organizations, through bilateral agreements. Those experts verify their portions. The Association certifies the chain. The resulting record — who asked, what was cited, who verified, who certified, timestamped — IS the governance. The platform provides the routing infrastructure. The cited experts provide the verification. The Association provides the certification. The superstar provides one click. |
| Get Verified | The one-click action that routes an AI response to the experts whose content was cited — at other organizations, through bilateral agreements — for verification, then to the Association for certification. The superstar's only job is clicking the button. The infrastructure does the rest. |
| Governed answer | What this platform produces. Multiple sources cited. Every contributor identified. Verifiable. Auditable. The decision trail shows exactly what was relied upon, by whom, and when. |
| Governing Body | The decision-making body of an ecosystem — elected or appointed members who set governance policies, define contribution standards, approve cross-organization agreements, and steward fair value distribution. Member-led, not vendor-controlled. In the supply-chain network model on this page, the Association's Governing Body acts as the Layer 2 certifier across all member supply chains — the structural role no AI vendor can occupy. |
| Layer 1 — Contributor verification | Each cited contributor confirms that their portion of the synthesis faithfully represents their content. The percentage shown next to each contributor indicates how much their content informed the answer. Faster than creating an original response — review and confirm rather than research and write from scratch. |
| Layer 2 — Association certification | The Association reviews the entire verification chain — the contributors' verifications and the AI synthesis together — for a second opinion across the whole response. The Association does not re-verify the content; it certifies that the verification process was complete, the verifications are consistent, and the synthesis accurately reflects the verified sources. |
| Member (industry leader) | The hub of their own governed supply chain — Classification, Tariffs, and Origin upstream, customers downstream, Association as certifier. Each member's supply chain is private; competitors' agreements are invisible. |
| Recognition of Contribution (RoC) | Every governed answer that crosses an organizational boundary creates value on both sides. The contributor's expertise was relied upon for a decision. The consumer got a governed, sourced answer instead of an unaccountable phone call. RoC measures this exchange: each 1.0 RoC represents one cross-boundary decision where governed knowledge replaced unverified advice. |
| Retroactive Reward | When RoC > 0 is achieved at any time during the pilot, the Reward price applies retroactively to ALL committed pilot queries — not just queries after the moment RoC > 0. The entire pilot is one billing cycle: content onboarding takes time, and a single cross-boundary governed answer anywhere in the pilot earns the Reward for every pilot month. This rule only exists during the pilot. Post-pilot subscription is full price per seat — there is no Reward rebate. |
| Reward price | The 50% of the monthly pilot commitment owed when governed value actually flows across your supply chain — RoC > 0. The pilot is one billing cycle: a single RoC > 0 anywhere in the pilot triggers the Reward across all pilot months. Risk/Reward pricing is a pilot-only mechanism — once you continue past the pilot, you pay the full subscription price per seat with no Risk/Reward split. |
| Risk price | The 50% of the monthly commitment paid in advance — the participant's stake that governed knowledge will deliver value. Pay 1 month in advance. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. |
| RoC distributedrisk elimination (consumer) | You got a governed, sourced answer from your supply chain instead of an unaccountable call. Every RoC distributed is a decision you can defend — with attribution, sources, and an audit trail. |
| RoC earnedvalue extraction (contributor) | Your expertise was relied upon. Someone made a governed decision based on your content — attributed, sourced, and recorded. That's value you extracted from the network. Every RoC earned is proof that your knowledge is worth more inside the network than it is on a phone call. |
| Single-tenant AI | Also called Standalone AI. AI that only sees one organization's documents. No classification codes from upstream peers. No tariff rates. No origin rules. No Association certification. No verification chain. The three-legged stool is gone. Faster to deploy — but every cross-org connection that makes answers verifiable, sourced, and trustworthy is severed. |
| Superstar | A nominated power user — typically 5–8 per ecosystem participant — chosen for their domain expertise across Classification, Tariffs, Origin, or Compliance. Each superstar gets their own AI assistant and is the human accountable for the one click that turns an AI response into an executable governance record. Superstars see a monthly query allocation, not a per-question meter. |
| Supplier (upstream peer) | A content provider in one or more members' governed supply chains, with confidential bilateral agreements per member. Classification, Tariffs, Origin — publish governed content once, earn licensing revenue across all clients. Verification becomes a scalable service rather than one-off consulting. |
| The gap | The space between AI output and human action that today's AI disclaimer ("this may contain errors") forces the reader to cross alone. Two existing options: ignore the gap and accept the risk, or spend days closing it manually and accept the delay. This platform closes it with one click. |
| The three-legged stool | Classification, Tariffs, and Origin — the three upstream peer roles that fan out to every member's supply chain. Publish once, earn across the network. Each leg through separate bilateral agreements: more members joining means more revenue from the same body of expertise. |
| Unaccountable advice | What the "free" phone call produces. One person's opinion. No second source. No audit trail. No accountability. "My guy said it was fine" is not a compliance defense. |
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