- Approval
- Saying yes to something. A named person allowing work to go ahead. Their name is saved with the decision and cannot be changed afterwards without it showing. Approving work is not the same as agreeing the result was any good.
- Artefact
- A file you attach — a document, design, or other file, stored with a fingerprint so Arturo can tell if it changes. Approval sticks to one exact version; a new version starts unchecked.
- Business Function
- Functionality your business needs. Something it always needs handled — answering customers, checking safety, planning routes. Not a one-off piece of work, and never named after a person or a project.
- Delegation
- Handing work to another function. One function asking another to do a bounded piece of work for it. The function that asked stays answerable for the result.
- Event
- Something that happened. A note that other functions can react to. Events are recorded, not guaranteed to reach anyone.
- Governance rule
- A guardrail on what needs permission. A rule you set yourself. It either lets work run, stops it, or holds it until a person says yes — and the answer never depends on an AI's opinion.
- Health
- How a function is going. A summary of how its work has turned out so far. It reports what was recorded — it is not proof that anything was correct.
- Human Task
- Work only a person can do — a decision, a phone call, a signature. It waits until they mark it done.
- Mission
- What your business is for. One sentence saying why it exists. Everything else hangs off it, and every worker is told it before starting.
- Operational Memory
- What Arturo learned last time. Lessons kept for future work, each labelled with where it came from. Anything an AI merely guessed is held back until someone vouches for it.
- Runtime
- The part that watches. The part of a function that notices when something needs doing and starts the work, rather than waiting to be asked.
- Task
- One piece of work. A single clear thing to do, with a beginning and an end. It records who did it, why they were chosen, and what came out.
- Worker
- Whoever does the work — either an AI or a person. Functions are answerable for results; workers are just who happens to do them, and can be swapped.