AI glossary
Plain-English definitions for the AI terms that matter to your team — and how Kuvai reframes each one around an AI teammate built on your business.
AI agent
An AI agent is software that perceives its environment, decides what to do, and takes action toward a goal — often autonomously and over multiple steps — by using tools, calling APIs, and reasoning with a language model. Unlike a chatbot that only generates text in reply to a prompt, an agent can act on the world: it can search, read, write to systems, and chain steps together to complete a task rather than just answer a question.
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AI autonomy is how much an AI system is allowed to act on its own — from only observing, to proposing actions, to acting within limits, to leading a process. Higher autonomy means less human involvement per action; responsible systems make the level explicit and adjustable.
Read definitionAI employee
An AI employee is AI software framed as a member of the team — given a role, a name, and ownership of recurring work — rather than a tool you operate task by task. It's a popular term for the same idea Kuvai delivers as an AI teammate: a colleague that owns a job, grounded in your business.
Read definitionAI 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. In Kuvai, each AI teammate keeps its own private notebook of how your business works, so it stops asking you to re-explain the basics and gets more useful the longer it works with you.
Read definitionAI orchestration
AI orchestration is coordinating multiple AI components — models, tools, data sources, and steps — 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.
Read definitionAI teammate
An AI teammate is a software colleague that owns a defined job end-to-end — grounded in a business's own documents and data, connected to its tools, and running on a schedule. Unlike an AI assistant you prompt, a teammate works continuously, accumulates your context, and drafts actions for your approval rather than waiting to be asked.
Read definitionAI 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.
Read definitionAgentic AI
Agentic AI is artificial intelligence that plans and takes multi-step, autonomous action toward a goal — rather than just generating a single piece of text in response to a prompt. Where a standard generative model answers what you ask, agentic AI decides what needs to happen, breaks the goal into steps, uses tools to carry them out, and adapts as it goes, working with limited human input.
Read definitionBank 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. It's essential, exacting, and the recurring task that keeps the books trustworthy.
Read definitionCompounding 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, improves from your corrections, and can take on more autonomy as it earns trust. It's the Kuvai term for what happens when memory, curiosity, self-learning, and autonomy stack: the more a teammate works with you, the less you have to repeat yourself.
Read definitionDigital 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.
Read definitionDocument 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. It turns a manual, error-prone review into a clear list of what's complete and what's outstanding.
Read definitionGrounding (AI)
Grounding is the practice of 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. A grounded AI cites and works from your sources; an ungrounded one guesses.
Read definitionSelf-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 Kuvai, self-learning is operational, not model retraining: after completed work, a teammate reviews how it went, captures durable facts, and proposes refinements to its own instructions that you approve. It improves from your corrections — it does not change on its own or 'get smarter.'
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