Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms used in CognaOne.
| Accountable executive | The named person answerable for an AI system; for FAR entities, linked to the accountable person held on the person record. |
| Action gate | Where CognaOne decides whether an agent may take a proposed action. |
| AI system | Any agent, assistant, predictive model or AI automation you build, buy or rely on. |
| Business owner | The person who owns an AI system day to day. |
| Canonical key | The name of the thing a fact is about, for example claim.amount. |
| Component | A part an AI system is made of or relies on: a model, provider, platform, MCP server or vendor product. |
| Conflict | Two sources disagreeing about the same key in the same scope. |
| Control | A specific measure that satisfies an obligation. |
| Decision receipt | The record of one runtime decision: inputs, rule and outcome. |
| Deterministic decision | A decision that does not depend on a model judgement and can be replayed. |
| Discovery | Finding AI the organisation has not registered, from platforms, traffic and vendors. |
| Enforcement boundary | The line between model-assisted steps and rule-based decisions. |
| Evidence | A dated, sourced record that a control operated. |
| Fourth party | A supplier to your supplier, such as the model provider behind a vendor product. |
| Governance state | Needs attention, in review or current, worked out from the record with its reasons. |
| Governed state | Facts an agent relies on, held as typed, versioned items with their source. |
| Integrity score | An advisory 0 to 100 signal of how ready an action is. |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol, a standard way for agents to reach tools and data. |
| Obligation | A requirement from a framework or law, with its source and date. |
| Policy | A declarative rule for what an action needs before it can run. |
| Proof level | How far a control is proven: declared to effective. |
| Scope | The boundary that decides which state a case or agent can see. |
| Suggestion | A value the platform proposes; it changes the record only when a person confirms it. |
| Use case | A business use of AI; one AI system can serve several. |
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