Controlled vocabulary

Say exactly
what you mean.

Precise language keeps identity, authority, responsibility, and history from collapsing into generic “data.”

A

Implemented & verified

Actor

An identity capable of performing an action that the system can attribute and audit.

Adopted doctrine

Affiliation

An effective-dated relationship between a person or actor and an organization or Client Account.

Implemented & verified

Approved Correspondent

A discovered client-associated email address explicitly allowed for bounded correspondence synchronization.

Adopted doctrine

Audit Event

Immutable evidence of who attempted or performed an action, why, and with what result.

B

Adopted doctrine

Backfill

Authorized recording of previously known historical truth.

Adopted doctrine

Billing Summary

A composed read model of supported invoice, payment, outstanding, policy, or projection metrics.

C

Adopted doctrine

Canonical Fact

A durable, provider-neutral fact accepted under the rules of an authoritative bounded module.

Adopted doctrine

Canonical Invoice Fact

An accepted provider-neutral invoice fact required by more than one sanctioned consumer.

Implemented & verified

Client Correspondence

Approved, client-associated mailbox content retained under bounded synchronization and access controls.

Adopted doctrine

Command

An authorized request to validate and change canonical state.

Adopted doctrine

Confirmed Binding

A durable, approved association between provider identity and canonical identity.

Proposed vocabulary for permission to read a defined class of retained mailbox content.

Adopted doctrine

Correction

A new authorized fact that explicitly supersedes an erroneous effective value without rewriting history.

D

Adopted doctrine

Deliverable

A meaningful output produced by a Project.

Adopted doctrine

Domain Event

An immutable business fact emitted by a canonical mutation.

E

Adopted doctrine

Effective At

The timestamp when a business fact became true.

Adopted doctrine

Effective On

A calendar date describing when a business fact applies when time-of-day has no useful meaning.

Adopted doctrine

Engagement

The commercial and governance container that authorizes work for a Client Account.

Adopted doctrine

Executor

The human or approved agent currently performing the work.

F

Conceptual

Fact Promotion

Proposed vocabulary for the authorized conversion of a normalized observation into a canonical fact.

Adopted doctrine

Financial Evidence

Provider-originated accounting information retained for normalization and reconciliation.

Adopted doctrine

Financial Projection

A calculated financial read model such as revenue, delivery cost, margin, or forecast.

I

K

Adopted doctrine

Kernel Module

A bounded canonical domain inside the Agency Operations Kernel.

M

Implemented & verified

Mailbox Connection

An authorized connection to a mailbox with bounded scopes and lifecycle controls.

Adopted doctrine

Mapping Recommendation

A proposed association between provider identity and canonical identity that has not yet been confirmed.

N

Adopted doctrine

Normalized Observation

A provider-neutral interpretation of evidence that has not necessarily been accepted as canonical.

O

Adopted doctrine

Observed At

The timestamp when a provider or integration observed a record or condition.

Adopted doctrine

Occurred At

The timestamp when an external activity actually happened.

Conceptual

Origin System

The system in which a record was first created or observed.

Adopted doctrine

Outbox Message

Durable delivery intent committed atomically with its source change.

Adopted doctrine

Owner

The one active human accountable for a defined work result.

P

Implemented & verified

Permission

An authorized capability to perform a defined action within a scope.

Conceptual

Person

A real human independent of authentication, affiliation, or system access.

Adopted doctrine

Product Application

A user-facing product that reads or acts on sanctioned facts without automatically owning them.

Adopted doctrine

Project

An operational unit of coordinated work within exactly one Engagement.

Adopted doctrine

Projection

A rebuildable read or analytical model optimized for a particular use.

Adopted doctrine

Provenance

The origin, identifiers, timestamps, transformations, and decisions that explain where a fact came from.

Adopted doctrine

Provider

A first-party or external system that originates observations or performs work through an adapter.

Adopted doctrine

Provider Record

A provider-specific representation in the format and identity system of its origin.

R

Adopted doctrine

Raw Evidence

Immutable or append-only evidence of what a provider supplied.

Adopted doctrine

Recorded At

The timestamp when the system recorded a fact or event.

Adopted doctrine

Retainer Policy

Versioned engagement-scoped rules for periods, rollover, overburn, discounts, and related commercial behavior.

S

Adopted doctrine

Shared Contract

A versioned published interface between repository or deployment boundaries.

Adopted doctrine

Snapshot

An intentionally frozen representation preserved for historical reproducibility.

Adopted doctrine

Supersession

Explicit replacement of a record or version while retaining the prior history.

T

Adopted doctrine

Task

An executable unit of work belonging to exactly one Project.

U

Adopted doctrine

User Identity

An authenticated identity managed by CROWN Auth and linked to permitted application contexts.

W

Conceptual

Work Surface

A user interface where people originate or manipulate sanctioned work.