| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agency | The tenant. Everything you create — agents, teams, vault data, integrations, routines — is scoped to your agency. |
| Agency admin | The first user in an agency. Can add other users, manage billing, change every setting. |
| Agent | An AI persona. See Agents. |
| BAA | Business Associate Agreement. Required before any PHI can flow to an external AI provider. |
| Bearer token | Per-agent, per-consumer credential for HTTP API access. See Bearer tokens. |
| The Brain | An internal service that fronts 25+ federal/healthcare data MCPs (CMS, NADAC, FDA, Federal Register, FEMA, …). The named research spokes call it. |
| Credit ledger | The per-agency usage meter. Every model call deducts credits based on token usage. |
| Exec head | One of the nine named department heads (Ambrose, Morgan, Jordan, Alex, Taylor, Elena, Sam, Casey, Riley). |
| GHL | GoHighLevel. The CRM most agencies use. |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol. The standard for AI tool use. More. |
| PHI | Protected Health Information. The 18 HIPAA-listed identifiers (name, DOB, SSN, MRN, address, phone, email, …). |
| PHI Rail | Ambrose's redact-then-rehydrate pipeline. See PHI Rail. |
| PIT | Personal Integration Token. The GHL credential you paste into Ambrose to authorize CRM reads/writes. |
| RLS | Row-level security (Postgres). The backstop that keeps one agency from reading another agency's rows. |
| Routine | Scheduled prompt attached to an agent or team. More. |
| Spoke | A capability — one MCP server with a tool set. More. |
| Skill | A SKILL.md brief that teaches the AI how to use a spoke. More. |
| Team | A role config. More. |
| Vault | The agency's private data store — CSVs, PDFs, XLSX, parsed and indexed. More. |
| War Room | The exec-team chat surface. More. |
| Watchdog | Scheduled book-intelligence spoke. ACA + Medicare flavors. ACA, Medicare. |
Getting started
Glossary
Quick definitions of every term you will see in the UI and the docs.