Glossary: T–Z
Every StartupBuilder term from T–Z, with its kind and one-sentence definition.
140 terms from T–Z, each with its kind and one-sentence definition.
Terms
| Term | Kind | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Take a whistleblower report | Workflow | Take a whistleblower report acknowledges a report within seven days, investigates it outside management, and answers the reporter within three months. |
| Takedowns | Process | Takedowns removes material named in a valid notice, tells the poster, restores it on a counter-notice, and tracks repeat infringers. |
| Task | Noun | A Task is an Action waiting on a Worker, with an assignee, a due time, and a place in that Worker’s inbox. |
| Task-bound access | Control | An agent Worker acts with a token scoped to its Role’s Permissions and its Task’s Nouns, expiring with the Task or Mandate. |
| Task.assign | Verb | Assign gives a Task to a Worker, human or agent, and places it in that Worker’s worklist. |
| Task.claim | Verb | Claim takes an offered Task from a shared queue or a handoff and makes the calling Worker its assignee. |
| Task.complete | Verb | Complete marks a Task done and resumes the Action that waited on it. |
| Task.delegate | Verb | Delegate passes a Task to another Role along a declared handoff and keeps its history. |
| Task.escalate | Verb | Escalate moves a Task to the Role its current Role escalates to, with the reason attached. |
| Task.next | Verb | Next returns the oldest open Task the calling Worker’s Roles may claim, without claiming it. |
| Task.return | Verb | Return hands an offered Task back to its sender, unchanged, with the reason the receiver cannot take it. |
| TaskInbox | Component | TaskInbox lists the Tasks, Approvals, and pending Actions waiting on one reader, ranked by when each window closes. |
| Tax | System | Tax calculates and collects sales tax and VAT, tracks registrations, and prepares every return and information return. |
| Tax calculation | Capability | Tax calculation computes and collects sales tax and VAT on every Order with Stripe Tax, on the Startup’s own account as seller of record. |
| Tax filing | Workflow | Tax filing tracks sales against each jurisdiction’s threshold at the entity total and registers and reports once one is crossed. |
| Tax filings | Capability | Tax filings prepare, sign, file and pay the Company’s income, franchise, sales and information returns on time in every jurisdiction. |
| Tax IDs | Capability | Tax IDs obtain the Company’s employer number, state tax accounts and sales tax registrations wherever it must collect or withhold. |
| Tax preparers | Legal floor row | Tax preparers has a preparer with a PTIN sign every return prepared for pay, and only an enrolled agent, CPA, or attorney represent a taxpayer. |
| Taxpayer data | Legal floor row | Taxpayer data uses tax return information only for the service the taxpayer asked for, and for anything else only with signed Consent. |
| Team | Noun | A Team is a named group of Roles under one owner; every Startup starts with eleven default Teams. |
| Technical win rate | Metric | Technical win rate is the share of Deals with a technical evaluation in which the buyer’s test passes. |
| Telecom | Legal floor row | Telecom sells calling, messaging, or numbers to Customers only through a licensed carrier upstream that files and pays into universal service. |
| Telephony | Capability | Telephony places and answers voice calls and sends text messages from a Startup’s numbers, honoring Consent and opt-outs. |
| Template | Noun | A Template is reusable Content with variables, filled from Things in the graph and authored as MDX, rendering a Message, Document, or Page. |
| Template.extend | Verb | Extend adds a Template to a Startup’s bases, pinned to a Version, so the Startup inherits its definition. |
| Template.promote | Verb | Promote moves one Startup’s refinement into a Template, so every Startup that extends the Template inherits it. |
| Template.upgrade | Verb | Upgrade moves a Startup to a newer Version of a Template it extends, through a Change it can review. |
| Tenancy | Capability | Tenancy isolates each Customer in its own Tenant inside a Startup namespace, from records and keys to Limits. |
| Tenant | Noun | A Tenant is the partition of a Startup’s data that belongs to one Customer. |
| Tenant data | Legal floor row | Tenant data keeps content a Tenant writes about others under a click-accepted DPA, never mined and never shared beyond that Tenant. |
| Tenant rules | Capability | Tenant rules let a Customer teach its minted Agent a rule that binds that Agent in that Tenant and nowhere else. |
| Tenant.invite | Verb | Invite asks a Person to join a Customer’s Tenant, and resizes the Subscription when the Offer prices per member. |
| Tenant.pin | Verb | Pin moves a Tenant’s keys to another API version, or to latest, once a call with its test key passes there. |
| Tenant.provision | Verb | Provision creates a Customer’s Tenant in a Startup’s App, holding that Customer’s records apart from every other. |
| Tenant.requestSetup | Verb | RequestSetup sends a Customer’s admin a link to connect their own sign-in, directory or verified domain to the Tenant. |
| TenantSwitcher | Component | TenantSwitcher lists the Tenants the signed-in person belongs to and switches the App to the one chosen. |
| Terms and policies | System | Terms and policies publishes a Startup’s terms of service, privacy notice and refund terms, filled from its Offers and data, and versioned on every publish. |
| Tester | Role | The Tester runs the synthetic paying stranger and replays known-good runs against every Change before it merges. |
| Theme | Noun | A Theme is the design tokens of a Brand, its color, type, spacing, radius, and motion, that every Component reads when it renders. |
| Thing | Noun | A Thing is an instance of one or more Nouns, with an identity, a current state, and the union of their properties. |
| Thing.relate | Verb | Relate links two Things by a Relationship their Nouns declare, readable from both ends at once. |
| Thing.resolve | Verb | Resolve finds the one Thing of a Noun that matches given properties, or creates it, and says which it did. |
| Thing.restore | Verb | Restore brings back a deleted Thing, or one an undone Action removed, with its history and Relationships intact. |
| Thing.share | Verb | Share grants a person, a Role or a guest Verbs on one record and everything it contains. |
| Thing.unrelate | Verb | Unrelate ends a Relationship between two Things; the link stays in history and reads back at any earlier moment. |
| ThingDetail | Component | ThingDetail shows one Thing's properties and Relationships, and only the Verbs the reader may call on it now. |
| Third-party apps | Capability | Third-party apps lets a developer register an app on a Startup’s API, which each Customer’s admin authorizes for its Tenant, with Verbs as its scopes. |
| Thread | Noun | A Thread is a set of Messages replying to one another inside a Channel. |
| TikTok | Venue | TikTok is a social Venue. |
| Time to first call | Metric | Time to first call is the median seconds from a Customer’s first key, or first keyless test call, to their first successful Action. |
| Time to first value | Metric | Time to first value is the median days from a Customer’s first payment to their first finished core task. |
| Time to hire | Metric | Time to hire is the days from opening a Role to a Human’s signed engagement. |
| Timeline | Component | Timeline lists a Thing's Actions and Events oldest first, keeping delivery and acceptance as separate steps. |
| Tool | Noun | A Tool is a Verb as a Worker reaches it through an Interface, under one name on every Interface. |
| Tracking | Legal floor row | Tracking holds non-essential cookies, session recordings, and company identification for EU and UK Visitors until they give Consent. |
| Trademark filings | Capability | Trademark filings clear, file, prosecute and renew the Company’s marks, and watch for conflicting filings. |
| Transaction | Noun | A Transaction is money moving on a payment rail, such as a charge, a payout, or a transfer, reconciled to Entries. |
| Transaction.attach | Verb | Attach matches a receipt File to a card Transaction, or flags the Transaction when no receipt arrives in time. |
| Transaction.categorize | Verb | Categorize codes a Transaction to an account in the chart by the Startup’s Policy and flags a low-confidence code for review. |
| Transaction.reconcile | Verb | Reconcile matches a Transaction on a payment rail to the ledger Entries it settles. |
| Treasurer | Role | The Treasurer manages cash: it pays Suppliers and Partners, keeps spend inside each envelope, and reports the default-alive line weekly. |
| Treasury | System | Treasury holds a Startup’s cash accounts and balances on Stripe, moves money between them, and forecasts runway. |
| Trials and plan changes | Process | Trials and plan changes converts each free trial to paid on its terms and moves a Customer between Offers with the period prorated. |
| Trigger | Noun | A Trigger is what starts a Workflow: an Event, a schedule, or a Thing entering a state. |
| Trust and safety | Process | Trust and safety stops fraud and abuse before they reach money, Messages, or other Customers. |
| Trust and safety | System | Trust and safety screens accounts, posts and Transactions for fraud and abuse, and acts on each report by stated rules. |
| Trust pack | Play | Trust pack sends the inherited SOC 2 report and prefilled questionnaire answers with every enterprise Quote. |
| Trust status | Control | Each entity publishes its live control results, and every reader, human or agent, receives the same data. |
| Trustpilot | Venue | Trustpilot is a directory Venue. |
| Unclaimed property | Legal floor row | Unclaimed property contacts the owner of any balance untouched past a state’s dormancy period, then reports what remains to that state. |
| Unseated access | Control | A Worker unseated from a Role holds none of that Role’s Permissions from the moment it leaves. |
| Unused Permissions | Metric | Unused Permissions counts the Permissions still granted that no Worker has called in 30 days. |
| Upstream review | Control | Every upstream is declared on its Change, and each one observed in use has a current security report on file. |
| Upstream review | Process | Upstream review checks every upstream before it is used and yearly after: security, privacy terms, continuity, and whether it processes personal data. |
| Usage upsell | Play | Usage upsell suggests the next Price tier when usage nears its Limit, accepted in one click and charged pro rata. |
| UsageGauge | Component | UsageGauge shows how much of one Entitlement a Customer has used this period, against its Limit and what happens at the bound. |
| UserMenu | Component | UserMenu shows the signed-in person with links to their profile, their keys, the billing portal and sign-out. |
| VarianceAlert | Component | VarianceAlert raises one exception, a number off pace or outside its noise band, with its cause and owner where known. |
| Variant | Noun | A Variant is one value an Experiment can assign, such as a revision, a Price on a sibling Offer, or a prompt, with its lineage. |
| VAT | Legal floor row | VAT registers the Company once for EU and UK VAT, charges consumers by location evidence, and reverse-charges business buyers with a valid VAT number. |
| Vector search | Capability | Vector search embeds Things and their parts and finds nearest neighbors for search, deduplication, matching and Memory. |
| Vendor onboarding | Process | Vendor onboarding answers a business buyer’s supplier checks: tax form, certificate of insurance, security questionnaire, and data processing terms. |
| Verb | Noun | A Verb is an action an Agent or a person performs on a Noun, emitting one event when it completes. |
| Verb.retire | Verb | Retire removes a published Verb from new Versions; callers pinned to earlier Versions keep calling it. |
| VerbReference | Component | VerbReference shows one Verb's call on every Interface as tabs, opening on the reader's chosen Interface. |
| VerbSheet | Component | VerbSheet turns one Verb into fields and a button, with its inputs, its Mode, its Price, and any Approval it needs. |
| Verification | Process | Verification checks every Change and every night’s state against deterministic checks and returns verdicts, never Approvals. |
| Version | Noun | A Version is an immutable build of a definition at a fingerprint; an Order keeps the Offer Version it bought. |
| Version.deploy | Verb | Deploy points a Startup’s live address at a Version, so every Interface serves that build. |
| Video | Capability | Video renders a Video’s timeline into one cut per format, with captions, a transcript and a receipt for every file. |
| Video | Noun | A Video is a timed composition held as data: a timeline of scenes and spoken lines, drafted from records and rendered per format. |
| Video completion rate | Metric | Video completion rate is the share of Video views watched to the end. |
| Video ladder | Play | Video ladder renders fact-bound video in every format, screens each cut on organic posts, and promotes only winners to paid Ads. |
| Video Producer | Role | The Video Producer turns briefs into generated Videos cut for every venue format, with likeness consent and licences recorded. |
| Video.draft | Verb | Draft writes a Video’s timeline from a Startup’s records, its Brand and a Template, with a draft mark on every frame. |
| Video.finalize | Verb | Finalize lifts a Video’s draft mark once every claim it makes reads from a live record, so its cuts can be published. |
| Visit | Noun | A Visit is one span of a Visitor’s Events on a Startup’s Sites and Apps. |
| Visitor | Noun | A Visitor is someone a Startup cannot name, known by an id scoped to that Startup. |
| Visitor.forget | Verb | Forget masks a person’s captured data across every Event and Recording and suppresses further capture, keeping the records. |
| Visitor.identify | Verb | Identify joins a Visitor to the Contact it turns out to be, so earlier Visits count toward that person. |
| Visitor.merge | Verb | Merge joins two Visitor ids that belong to one person and keeps both as aliases. |
| Voice | Noun | A Voice is a reusable synthetic speaking voice, cloned from a consenting speaker or designed from a description, that speech Files are rendered in. |
| Voice.clone | Verb | Clone trains a Voice from a real speaker’s recordings after the speaker records Consent in that same voice. |
| Voice.retire | Verb | Retire deletes a Voice’s trained copy at the upstream and refuses new speech in it, keeping the record and every File made. |
| Vulnerability disclosure | Process | Vulnerability disclosure takes security reports at the published address, confirms them, fixes them, and credits the reporter under safe harbor. |
| Vulnerability handling | Legal floor row | Vulnerability handling publishes a disclosure policy, fixes reported flaws without delay, and reports an exploited one to the regulator within 24 hours. |
| Vulnerability management | Control | Every dependency and running Version is scanned daily, and each known vulnerability is fixed within its severity deadline. |
| Waitlist | Noun | A Waitlist is the Leads waiting for an Offer that is not open to them, invited in the order a Setting chooses. |
| Waitlist.admit | Verb | Admit releases Leads from a Waitlist to the Offer they waited for, in the order the Waitlist ranks them. |
| Waitlist.join | Verb | Join adds a Lead to a Waitlist for an Offer that is not open to them. |
| WaitlistJoin | Component | WaitlistJoin adds a Visitor to a Waitlist through its join Verb and confirms their place in line. |
| Waitlists | System | Waitlists holds the Leads waiting for an Offer that is not open to them and invites them ranked as a Setting chooses. |
| Watch | Noun | A Watch is an outbound subscription that delivers the Events a selector matches to a URL, signed, retried, and replayable. |
| Watch.pause | Verb | Pause stops a Watch delivering while its Events keep queuing; the platform pauses a Watch whose deliveries fail for three days. |
| Watch.replay | Verb | Replay redelivers a Watch’s Events from a chosen point, signed as they were the first time. |
| Watch.resume | Verb | Resume restarts a paused Watch and delivers the Events it held, oldest first. |
| Watch.rotate | Verb | Rotate issues a new signing secret for a Watch and signs with both secrets until the old one expires. |
| Web | Capability | Web searches and reads the open web for agents and keeps each page read as a Source with its fetch time. |
| Webhooks | Interface | Webhooks deliver each Event a Watch selects to an HTTPS endpoint, signed with the Standard Webhooks headers and retried until acknowledged. |
| Webinars | System | Webinars runs the webinars and meetups Contacts attend, online or in person: invitations, registrations, attendance and follow-up. |
| Weekly outside revenue growth | Metric | Weekly outside revenue growth is the mean week-over-week percent change in outside revenue over the trailing 4 weeks. |
| Weekly review | Workflow | Weekly review reads the Startup’s one number, finds where most buyers leak, and makes exactly one change with an undo note. |
| Weekly verdicts | Metric | Weekly verdicts counts the Experiments and loops that reached a Decision in the week, shown beside the OMTM and never in its place. |
| Weeks flat | Metric | Weeks flat counts the consecutive weeks in which weekly outside revenue growth stays below the Startup’s growth line. |
| Whistleblower reports | Process | Whistleblower reports takes reports on a line outside management, acknowledges each within seven days, investigates, and protects the reporter. |
| Whistleblowing | Legal floor row | Whistleblowing keeps a reporting line outside management, acknowledges each report within seven days, answers within three months, and bars retaliation. |
| Wizard of Oz | Test ladder rung | Wizard of Oz delivers behind the product’s real interface while people do the work. |
| Work queue | System | Work queue hands every Task, Issue and Approval to the right Worker, Human or Agent, with leases, priority, due times and proof. |
| Work trial | Play | Work trial replaces interviewing with two weeks of paid, graded work on the Startup’s own Issues, paid in full whatever the grade. |
| Worker | Noun | A Worker is a Human or an Agent that fills a Role and acts on Tasks. |
| Worker competence | Control | Each agent Worker runs a pinned model and instruction Version with passing evals, and each Human passes a paid work trial. |
| Workflow | Noun | A Workflow is the durable, executable body of one Action: its steps, the Functions that run them, retries, and waits. |
| Workflows | Capability | Workflows run the durable body of one Action: steps, waits, retries and hand-offs that survive restarts. |
| Workforce | System | Workforce keeps every Worker, Human or Agent: the Roles they fill, their Teams, Skills, onboarding, assessments and offboarding. |
| Written references | Play | Written references answer a reference request within days with a written reference from an opted-in Customer, paid in credit. |
| X | Venue | X is a social Venue. |
| Yahoo Mail | Venue | Yahoo Mail is a email Venue. |
| Yelp | Venue | Yelp is a directory Venue. |
| YouTube | Venue | YouTube is a video Venue. |
| Zapier | Venue | Zapier is a marketplace Venue. |