Glossary: Q–R
Every StartupBuilder term from Q–R, with its kind and one-sentence definition.
94 terms from Q–R, each with its kind and one-sentence definition.
Terms
| Term | Kind | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Lead | Role | The Quality Lead verifies every Team’s checks and gives every Change a verdict, never an Approval. |
| Quality Team | Team | The Quality Team checks all work: the checks inside each Process, every outbound Message, and every money move, with verdicts, never Approvals. |
| Question | Noun | A Question is what a pending Action asks a Party, a Role, or a Worker before it resumes, kept on the Action with its answer. |
| Quote | Noun | A Quote is a priced proposal of one or more Offers to one buyer, valid until a date, accepted into an Order. |
| Quote.accept | Verb | Accept takes a sent Quote before it expires, turning one-time lines into an Order and recurring lines into a Subscription. |
| Quote.decline | Verb | Decline records the buyer’s refusal of a sent Quote, with the reason in their words. |
| Quote.expire | Verb | Expire closes a sent Quote that reached its validUntil date unaccepted; it never converts afterward. |
| Quote.request | Verb | Request asks a Startup for terms on one or more Offers, with the volume, term or scope wanted. |
| Quote.send | Verb | Send presents a drafted Quote to its buyer and freezes its lines, total and payment terms. |
| Quote.supersede | Verb | Supersede replaces a sent Quote with a newer one on the same Deal; only the newest Quote can be accepted. |
| Quotes | System | Quotes drafts priced proposals of one or more Offers to one buyer within Limits and turns each accepted Quote into an Order. |
| Quoting | Process | Quoting prices each Deal from list Price, inside the discount Limit, with terms ready to sign. |
| Rate limits | Capability | Rate limits check each call against its Limits before it runs and count its usage into Meters after, exactly once. |
| Readout | Noun | A Readout is an Experiment’s result per Variant on its Metric, with the sample size, the interval, and how far the number can be trusted. |
| Realtime | Capability | Realtime pushes Events, Messages and record changes to connected Apps and agents as they happen, resumable from a cursor. |
| Reconciliation completeness | Control | A Period locks only when every Transaction in it reconciles to Entries. |
| Recording | Noun | A Recording is the replay of one Visit or one agent browser session, masked at capture. |
| Records of processing | Control | Records of processing render for any date from field data classes, Purposes, recipients and retention. |
| Recovery Objective | Noun | A Recovery Objective sets how much data one Capability may lose and how fast it returns, proven by a restore drill on a cadence. |
| RecoveryObjective.drill | Verb | Drill restores one Capability’s records into an isolated namespace and records whether the restore met both objectives. |
| Recruit supply | Workflow | Recruit supply adds credentialed Suppliers when booked capacity runs short and calibrates each on graded sample work. |
| Recruiter | Role | The Recruiter finds the Humans a Startup needs, from licensed reviewers to a cofounder, through paid work trials, never interviewing. |
| Recruiting | Capability | Recruiting sources, screens and places employees and contractors for a Startup, and reports whether each placement lasted. |
| Recurring billing | Capability | Recurring billing charges Subscriptions on Stripe Billing, with trials, proration, metered usage, retries and dunning, while db.sb stays the record. |
| Venue | Reddit is a community Venue. | |
| Referral | Noun | A Referral is a Contact, Customer, or Partner sending a Lead to a Startup, with any reward it earns. |
| Referral share | Metric | Referral share is the share of new outside Customers who arrived through a Referral. |
| Referrals | System | Referrals records each Contact, Customer or Partner sending a Lead or Customer to a Startup, and pays the reward its Agreement promises. |
| Registered agent | Capability | Registered agent accepts legal process and state mail for the Company wherever it registers, and routes each item within the hour. |
| Registration | Noun | A Registration is one person’s place at a Gathering: invited, requested, or waitlisted, then registered, then attended or no-show. |
| Registration.admit | Verb | Admit gives the next Contact in line a place at a Gathering when one frees up or its capacity rises. |
| Registration.approve | Verb | Approve gives a requested place at a Gathering to the Contact who asked, or a place in line when the Gathering is full. |
| Registration.attend | Verb | Attend records that a registered Contact joined the Gathering; an online room calls it on join. |
| Regulated goods | Legal floor row | Regulated goods refuses any Startup that sells alcohol, tobacco, vapes, cannabis, firearms, or controlled substances. |
| Rehearse | Capability | Rehearse runs a whole Startup in the test environment on a Stripe test clock, grades it, and files each miss as an eval case. |
| Relationship | Noun | A Relationship is a standing Action between two Things, read in the present tense and typed by a Verb whose forms give its reverse. |
| Release | Process | Release takes each reviewed Change to all traffic in stages, with automatic revert. |
| Release a change | Workflow | Release a change merges a Change that passed its verdict and deploys it in stages, reverting automatically on a guardrail breach. |
| Reliability Engineer | Role | The Reliability Engineer keeps every Interface up: it reads monitors, restores the Interface when an incident opens, and fixes the cause. |
| Renew a license | Workflow | Renew a license prepares each renewal before the license expires, gets the owner’s signature where required, and records the new expiry. |
| Renewal | Noun | A Renewal is the Deal for a term Subscription’s next term, opened before the term ends and closed renewed, expanded, contracted, or churned. |
| Renewal notice | Workflow | Renewal notice tells each Customer on a term of a year or longer the date, Price and cancel link before it renews. |
| Renewal.open | Verb | Open starts the Renewal for a term Subscription before its term ends, with a usage review and any notice the legal floor requires. |
| Renewals | Legal floor row | Renewals discloses renewal terms before payment, takes a separate yes, reminds before yearly renewals, and cancels online in as few steps as signup. |
| Repeat purchase rate | Metric | Repeat purchase rate is the share of outside Customers who place a second paid Order within 90 days of their first. |
| Repeatable | Lifecycle state | Repeatable is the state of a Startup whose Customers arrive, pay, and stay, while its work runs without its founder. |
| Reports | System | Reports arranges saved Metric queries into Dashboards, weekly reviews and investor updates, delivered on a schedule and watched for thresholds. |
| Repositories | System | Repositories holds a Startup’s code and definitions in db.sb, with branches, Changes, checks and Versions. |
| Researcher | Role | The Researcher learns from what buyers do: it asks one question at a signal and grades every piece of Evidence by behavior. |
| Reserve | Component | Reserve records a Visitor committing to an Offer before it ships, with an optional deposit, as Evidence for its Hypothesis. |
| Reserve drop | Play | Reserve drop opens refundable deposits for 72 hours after one creator post and moves the Startup to Building only if deposits cross the entry check. |
| Reserved Act | Noun | A Reserved Act is a Verb the law reserves to the holder of a named Credential, so its Function is always human. |
| Residency | Capability | Residency pins where a namespace stores and processes its records, Files and analytics, set per Startup or per Tenant. |
| Resolution time | Metric | Resolution time is the median business hours from a Conversation’s first Message to a resolution that held for 7 days. |
| Resolve an incident | Workflow | Resolve an incident restores the Interface, fixes the cause, and publishes a postmortem with the Change that prevents a repeat. |
| Resource | Noun | A Resource is a Thing whose home is at a Source, such as a Stripe Invoice, with a mode that says which side leads. |
| Restore drills passed | Metric | Restore drills passed is the share of restore drills that met both recovery objectives. |
| Resume | Process | Resume returns a dormant Startup to Live: it re-runs the Live checks, reopens Offers, and restarts its Workflows. |
| Retargeting | Play | Retargeting shows Ads only to an owned Audience of past Visitors, capped at three impressions per Person per day. |
| Retention | Process | Retention keeps Customers by catching silence early, saving once, and winning back once. |
| Retention restriction | Control | When a Purpose’s retention ends, its records stay kept forever and every read of them is restricted. |
| Return on ad spend | Metric | Return on ad spend is the revenue from paid Campaigns divided by their spend. |
| Revert by query | Control | Containment revokes the compromised token or freezes the Worker, then reverts every Event written under it as one Change. |
| Review | Noun | A Review is one person’s rated evaluation of a Product, Offer or Brand, shown on a Site or an outside venue and mirrored from there. |
| Review a contract | Workflow | Review a contract compares a new Agreement with the Startup’s fallback positions and returns a signable draft. |
| Review an upstream | Workflow | Review an upstream checks a new provider’s security, privacy terms and continuity before first use, and sets the date it is reviewed again. |
| Review requests | Play | Review requests ask each Customer for a review at a delivered outcome, on the venue the Startup most needs, and show consented reviews. |
| Review turnaround | Metric | Review turnaround is the median hours from an Action entering review to its verdict. |
| Review.publish | Verb | Publish shows a Review on the Startup’s Pages with its rating counted, whatever the rating. |
| Review.remove | Verb | Remove takes a Review down for good when its author or its venue asks; the record is kept. |
| Review.withhold | Verb | Withhold keeps a Review off display for one of five reasons, none of them its rating or its tone. |
| Reviewer | Role | The Reviewer checks every outbound Message and money move at medium stakes or above before its delay window closes. |
| Reviews | System | Reviews shows each Person’s evaluation of a Product, Offer or Brand where evaluations are shown, requested, moderated and mirrored from elsewhere. |
| Risk | Noun | A Risk is something that could harm a Startup or a Portfolio, scored by likelihood and impact, and treated, accepted, or closed. |
| Risk Analyst | Role | The Risk Analyst screens for fraud and abuse, holds suspect Parties, and keeps dispute rates under their Limits. |
| Risk assessment | Control | Agents prepare each period’s risk assessment from Incidents, Issues and Changes, and the entity’s officer accepts it by Decision. |
| Risk assessment | Process | Risk assessment scores every open Risk each quarter, links each to the Controls that treat it, and sends the result to an officer to accept. |
| Risk.accept | Verb | Accept records an officer’s signed Decision to carry a Risk untreated until its next review. |
| Risk.assess | Verb | Assess scores a Risk’s likelihood and impact from the Startup’s records and sets its next review date. |
| Risk.close | Verb | Close ends a Risk that can no longer happen and keeps it, with its scores and treatments, forever. |
| Risk.treat | Verb | Treat links a Risk to the Controls that lower it and records the score it should reach. |
| Role | Noun | A Role is a seat that owns a set of work and holds the Permissions to do it, filled by a Human or an Agent. |
| Role Review | Noun | A Role Review is a dated check of one Role against its contract: its results, its standards and its approvals. |
| Role review | Process | Role review checks every filled Role against its contract each week and turns each missed result into a Decision. |
| Role structure | Control | Every Worker sits in a Role on a Team, and every Role publishes its responsibilities, Permissions and accountable lead. |
| Role.review | Verb | Review checks one Role against its contract for a period and records a Role Review. |
| Role.staff | Verb | Staff fills a Role with a Worker, human or agent, who then performs the Role’s Verbs under its Permissions. |
| Role.vacate | Verb | Vacate takes the Worker out of a Role, and the seat’s Tasks route to the Role it escalates to until a new Worker is staffed. |
| Route a call | Workflow | Route a call answers every call, sends the caller to the Role they need, and takes a message with a callback time otherwise. |
| Run a tryout | Workflow | Run a tryout pays a Candidate for real work from the Role’s backlog, graded blind against the incumbent Agent’s run of the same Tasks. |
| Run an experiment | Workflow | Run an experiment fixes its threshold and sample before it starts, holds a control arm, and ends in one recorded Decision. |
| Run beside | Play | Run beside does a buyer’s work in parallel with their current tool and shows the daily difference until it reaches zero. |
| Runway | Process | Runway tells the Founder every week whether the Startup reaches profit before its cash runs out. |
| Runway days | Metric | Runway days is the days of cash left at the average net burn of the last 90 days. |