AI Operating System Glossary¶
Purpose¶
Define AIOS-specific terms and cross-reference boundaries for the Algosure Blueprint.
Why This Exists¶
AIOS coordinates Domains, Practices, Digital Professionals, humans, events, memory, approvals, and audit records. Shared language is required so enterprise operating behaviour remains consistent across the Algosure Blueprint.
Owner¶
The owner is the Chief Product Officer and Enterprise Architect.
Business Value¶
Reduces ambiguity and keeps AIOS language aligned with the Domain, Practice, Capability, and Digital Professional standards.
Terms¶
| Term | Definition | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI Operating System | Enterprise operating model that orchestrates Digital Professionals, context, reasoning, execution, memory, approvals, events, and auditability. | Not a software framework or implementation. |
| AIOS | Short form for AI Operating System. | Use only after the full term is introduced. |
| Digital Professional | Governed AI worker aligned to a Practice, Domains, capabilities, SOPs, KPIs, tools, memory, and guardrails. | Executes work but does not own source facts. |
| Executive Office | Practice that acts as orchestration entry point for leadership, approvals, briefings, priorities, and cross-Practice coordination. | Ari and Ava are the primary Professionals. |
| Ari | Chief Procurement Officer Digital Professional responsible for executive coordination and cross-Practice leadership support. | Coordinates but does not own Domain facts. |
| Ava | Executive Assistant Digital Professional responsible for schedules, reminders, approvals, documents, executive administration, and platform administration support. | Supports Ari and Administration workflows. |
| Intelligence | Orchestration and reasoning capability that supports AIOS execution. | Does not replace Domain ownership. |
| Practice | Operating department of the Digital Procurement Company that owns capabilities, SOPs, KPIs, meetings, reports, and operational routines. | Domains own facts. |
| Domain | Source-of-truth business area that owns facts, lifecycle state, rules, commands, and events. | AIOS references Domains but does not duplicate them. |
| Business Capability | Stable unit of business design owned by a Practice and executed through workflows and Digital Professionals. | Maps to Practice, Professional, SOP, KPI, data, and outcome. |
| Work intent | Business request, event, schedule, or risk signal that initiates AIOS coordination. | Captured at intake. |
| Orchestration | Coordination of work across Practices, Professionals, Domains, events, approvals, memory, and audit. | Core AIOS function. |
| Delegation | Assignment of scoped work to a Digital Professional with context, authority, SOP, tools, output, and escalation rules. | Must be auditable. |
| Work packet | Structured context and instruction set given to a Digital Professional. | Includes boundaries and approval requirements. |
| Delegation chain | Ordered or parallel set of assigned Professionals working toward one outcome. | Requires a lead and merge point. |
| Sequential execution | Execution where downstream work depends on prior facts, decisions, or approvals. | Used for compliance, approvals, and source-dependent workflows. |
| Parallel execution | Execution where independent workstreams run concurrently with a defined merge point. | Used to reduce cycle time. |
| Context window | Scoped information available to AIOS or a Professional for a task. | Must be relevant, authorized, and auditable when material. |
| Working context | Short-lived context used during active execution. | Usually summarized or discarded after completion. |
| Short-term memory | Operational memory for recent decisions, active risks, deadlines, and in-progress tasks. | Supports continuity. |
| Long-term memory | Durable customer knowledge, preferences, decisions, and lessons retained for future reasoning. | Requires governance. |
| Semantic memory | Meaning-based relationships across organization, opportunities, compliance, bids, contracts, suppliers, funding, learning, and analytics. | Must preserve provenance. |
| Organizational Memory | Approved institutional knowledge of a customer organization used to improve future work. | Cannot override Domain facts. |
| Memory update proposal | Proposed durable memory change requiring provenance and, where material, owner review. | Reviewed before durable use. |
| Event orchestration | AIOS response to Domain and workflow events. | Events trigger coordination but do not transfer ownership. |
| Event Mesh | Business communication layer through which Domains and workflows publish events. | AIOS subscribes for orchestration. |
| Approval gate | Required decision point before high-impact action can proceed. | Human accountability is explicit. |
| Human-in-the-loop | Operating pattern where humans review, approve, reject, revise, or accept accountability for material AIOS work. | Required for high-impact decisions. |
| Explainability | Ability to show recommendation rationale, evidence, assumptions, alternatives, confidence, and approval need. | Required for material recommendations. |
| Confidence score | Reliability signal for a recommendation or analysis. | Not a guarantee of truth. |
| Escalation | Routing of risk, low confidence, blocked work, or policy exception to a human or governance owner. | Must preserve urgency and context. |
| Retry | Controlled reattempt of failed execution when the failure type allows it. | Not allowed for policy conflicts or unresolved ownership issues. |
| Failure handling | Structured response to execution failure, including recording, impact assessment, retry, revision, or escalation. | Silent failure is prohibited. |
| Audit trail | Traceable record of request, context, reasoning, decisions, approvals, actions, and outcomes. | Required for material work. |
| Tenant isolation | Operating rule that customer context, memory, events, and decisions cannot cross customer boundaries. | Core safety principle. |
| Source fact | Authoritative business fact owned by a Domain. | AIOS may reference but not own it. |
| High-impact decision | Decision with material business, financial, compliance, contractual, customer, security, or irreversible consequence. | Requires human approval. |
Cross-Reference Notes¶
- Global Digital Professional definitions belong in the Digital Professionals section.
- Domain ownership rules belong in the Domain Model section.
- Practice ownership rules belong in the Practices section.
- Capability definitions belong in the Business Capabilities section.
- This glossary defines AIOS-specific usage only.