Glossary

Advisor#

The person who leads an engagement and carries the relationship with the client. Advisors work on the advisor side of a workspace and approve what the agents prepare. See Workspaces and roles.

Agent#

A specialised AI assistant on the team: Researcher, Analyst, Curator (Kurator), PMO, Editor (Redaktion) and Sparring. Agents prepare; people decide. See Arvemo and the agents.

Approval (Freigabe)#

A proposal of an agent that waits for a person in the Approvals place until it is approved, changed or discarded. Not everything an agent suggests is an approval; see Proposal and Suggestion below. See Approvals.

Arvemo#

The assistant you talk to. He is the one voice of the team: he answers, and works behind the scenes as the agent that fits the question. See Chat with Arvemo.

Basis changed (Grundlage geändert)#

A mark on an item whose underlying facts have changed in something it depends on. It says: check whether this still fits. See Steering.

Brain#

The advisor's private page for one workspace: working hypotheses, a small map of the stakeholders, a note and the memory card. Clients do not see it. See People and journal and Memory.

Client side#

Everyone in a workspace who works for the client: people with the roles Responsible, Full and Read. They see what their role allows and what the advisor has released. See Workspaces and roles.

Cockpit#

The advisor's start page across all workspaces. See Cockpit.

Deliverable (Artefakt)#

A document an agent or the advisor writes, for example a memo, a briefing, an analysis, a dossier, a prep pack, a review or a closing report. The Explorer lists the kind under the name "Results". The types can be set per organisation. See Deliverables.

Dossier#

A researched write-up on a topic, made by the Researcher. See Intelligence.

Engagement (Mandat)#

The advisory work for one client. Its room in ARVEMO is a workspace. The German word Mandat means engagement; in the German interface Mandate is also the name of the template for client workspaces.

Explorer#

The place that shows one item in the middle with everything connected to it around it. See Explorer.

Full (Voll)#

A role on the client side: sees everything that is not internal and proposes, but not the fee. See Workspaces and roles.

Lead (Leitung)#

The advisor who runs a client workspace. The Team page marks that person with the small label "responsible" (German "verantwortlich"). Not to be confused with the client role Responsible. See Workspaces and roles.

Organisation#

The company or firm that holds workspaces, colleagues, settings and the credit for the agents. See Workspaces and roles.

Proposal (Vorschlag)#

In general, anything an agent suggests; most of it arrives as an approval. The place Proposals is narrower: it holds Arvemo's own offers, such as connecting two items or helping with a todo. Memory entries and connections between items have their own decision spot (the Brain page and the Explorer). See Proposals.

Protocol (Protokoll)#

The record of a session, written by the Curator from your notes or a recording: decisions, tasks, risks and open questions. See Sessions.

Read (Lesen)#

A role on the client side: only looks, sees goals, decisions that have been made and released deliverables, and changes nothing. See Workspaces and roles.

Responsible (Verantwortlich)#

A role on the client side: the client's main contact. Sees everything that is not internal, including the fee and the team, and decides first on her team's proposals where the organisation chooses so. Not to be confused with the advisor-side lead. See Invite a client.

Sample workspace (Beispiel-Workspace)#

A workspace with made-up data for trying things out. The agents follow a script there and cost nothing. See First steps.

Session#

A meeting with the client, kept as an item with an agenda and, afterwards, a protocol. See Sessions.

Sparring#

The agent that challenges instead of thinking for you. The same name is used for the place where a client's question goes to the advisor when the organisation lets agents answer clients only through the advisor, and for the weekly question in the journal. See Arvemo and the agents.

Suggestion (Änderungsvorschlag)#

A change to a text, marked in the text, which the advisor accepts or rejects change by change. It becomes a new version once all changes are decided. See Comments and versions.

Todo and task#

A todo is a commitment with an owner. Agents also work on tasks, which you follow on the agents' board. See Todos and The agents' board.

Version (Fassung)#

Every saved state of a document or an approval. Versions show who changed what, when and why. See Comments and versions.

Waiting for you (Wartet auf dich)#

The one number that counts what needs a person: open approvals, agent results to look at and unread @-mentions. For clients it counts the unread @-mentions; the person with the role Responsible also sees the team proposals waiting for her. Arvemo's proposals have their own count, and the Mac Dock badge differs (see Notifications). See Notifications.

Workspace#

The shared place for one engagement – or an internal workspace without a client. The sidebar has three things of that name: the block Workspace, the page Workspace (term, hours, fee and scope of one workspace) and the list Workspaces of all your workspaces. See Workspaces and roles.