Glossary
The vocabulary of the discipline.
A new capability requires precise language. These are the terms the project uses and exactly what they mean. Every term has its own permalink — hover a term to copy a link straight to its definition.
- Cognitive Enterprise#
- An organization that has institutionalized cognition — transforming information into durable, improving judgment.
- Explainability#
- The requirement that every conclusion be inspectable, traceable, and open to challenge.
- Fields of Use#
- A shared cognitive substrate serving many domains while preserving exclusive stewardship within each field.
- IIOS#
- The Industrial Intelligence Operating System — the platform that operationalizes the cognitive stack.
- Industrial Graph#
- The connected substrate of entities, relationships, and evidence that grounds cognition in reality.
- Institutional Memory#
- The persistent, structured record of what an organization has learned, preserved beyond any individual employee.
- Organizational Cognition#
- The capability by which an organization observes, understands, reasons, decides, and learns as a coherent whole.
- Progressive Connectivity#
- The property by which each new connection increases the intelligence of the whole, compounding value.
- Reasoning Layer#
- The layer of the cognitive stack that turns structured evidence into inspectable, structured argument.
- Stewardship#
- The duty to protect, curate, and improve the cognitive commons on behalf of the organization and its future.
- The Cognitive Economy#
- The emerging economic era in which continuously improving judgment, not information, is the scarce and compounding resource.
- Trust Architecture#
- The provenance, explainability, and calibrated confidence that make a judgment worthy of institutional trust.
Explore how these concepts connect in the Atlas and the Canon.