Glossary
AI terms, in plain English.
Short, answer-first definitions — then the detail, for when you need it.
- Agentic AI
- Agentic AI is artificial intelligence that plans and takes multi-step action toward a goal, rather than generating a single response to a prompt. It breaks a goal into steps, uses tools to carry them out, and adapts as it goes.
- AI agent
- An AI agent is software that perceives its environment, decides what to do, and takes action toward a goal — often over multiple steps — by using tools and reasoning with a language model. Unlike a chatbot, it can act, not just answer.
- AI autonomy
- AI autonomy is how much an AI system is allowed to do on its own before a person steps in — from only watching, to suggesting, to acting within limits. Responsible systems make that line explicit and keep sensitive actions with a person.
- AI employee
- An AI employee is AI software framed as a member of the team — given a role and ownership of recurring work — rather than a tool you operate task by task. "Digital worker" and "AI workforce" describe the same idea; Kuvai calls it an AI teammate.
- AI memory
- AI memory is an AI system's ability to retain information across sessions — your preferences, your business's facts, decisions and summaries of past work — instead of starting from a blank slate every time.
- AI orchestration
- AI orchestration is coordinating multiple AI steps, tools and data sources so they work together to complete a multi-step job. Instead of one prompt to one model, orchestration sequences the work, passes context between steps, and connects to the right systems.
- AI teammate
- An AI teammate is a named, persistent AI colleague that owns a defined job — grounded in a business's own documents, using its connected tools, and running on a schedule. It does the work you hand it, and you decide how far it goes.
- AI workforce
- An AI workforce is a coordinated set of AI teammates that each own a recurring business function — handling real work end to end rather than answering one-off prompts. Unlike a single chatbot, a workforce is multiple specialised teammates that share context and hand work between them.
- Bank reconciliation
- Bank reconciliation is matching your accounting records against your bank and card statements to confirm every transaction agrees — catching duplicates, missing entries and discrepancies before the books close.
- Compounding delegation
- Compounding delegation is the idea that work you hand to an AI teammate gets easier and more valuable to delegate over time — because the teammate accumulates context, proposes refinements from your corrections that you approve, and can take on more autonomy as it earns trust. It's the Kuvai term for what happens when memory, curiosity, reflection, and autonomy stack: the more a teammate works with you, the less you have to repeat yourself.
- Digital worker
- A digital worker is software designed to perform an ongoing business role — owning a function and producing real output — rather than completing a single task on command. It's the industry term for AI that works like a member of the team; Kuvai calls these AI teammates.
- Document gap analysis
- Document gap analysis is checking a set of submitted documents against a required checklist to find what's missing, expired, or inconsistent before the package moves forward.
- Grounding (AI)
- Grounding is tying an AI system's outputs to a specific, trusted source of truth — your own documents, data and rules — so its answers reflect your business rather than generic internet knowledge.
- Self-learning AI
- Self-learning AI describes an AI system that improves at a job over time from feedback and experience, rather than performing identically forever. In practice that usually means its instructions and context improve, not the underlying model.
Questions, answered
What is an AI teammate?
A named AI worker that owns one job. Give it a job title, and Kuvai grounds it in your company context and the files you give it, connects the tools you choose, and lets it run scheduled work — checking with you when it matters.
What's the difference between an AI agent and an AI teammate?
AI agents for business take actions for you, and most are built for one generic task. A Kuvai teammate is built around your job from a plain-language description, grounded in your company profile and files, and goes as far as you ask.
What is a living document?
A tracker, brief or log a teammate maintains over time — narrative sections and tables it works through on schedule. One teammate's living document can ground another's work.
What is a credit?
One credit is 3.6 seconds of model working time, so 1,000 credits is about an hour of a teammate actively working.
Your team is one teammate away.
Describe the job. Kuvai builds the teammate. You decide how far it goes.