Company OS
Lexicon & Concepts
The words we use, defined once, tagged by area.
The platform's vocabulary is precise on purpose. The Area column sorts each term into Concepts, Data, Security, Infrastructure, or Apps.
| Term | Area | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Runline Framework | Concepts | Governance-driven, opinionated architecture: a set of primitives, domain-specific app templates, AI-native services, protocols, and designs. (Composite of the Grid, the Tower, Circuit, and the Runner fleet.) |
| Runline COS | Concepts | What the Framework becomes once it runs a whole credit union (see Company OS). |
| Runline (workflow service) | Apps | A governed workflow service for one domain: state, approval gates, audit, sync. Ships a Prime Runner. |
| Workstream | Concepts | An SOP as code, the workflow a Runner executes. (Formerly "Playbook", renamed once we built Workstreams.) |
| Runner | Concepts | An AI agent operating inside a Runline, optimized for its domain. |
| Prime Runner | Concepts | The durable, long-lived Runner for a domain at a specific institution (named uniquely per CU). |
| Pilot | Concepts | The human directing Runners: reviews, approves, redirects. Human-in-the-loop. |
| Knowledge Fabric | Data | CDC pipelines, normalized cross-core schemas, and semantic search. The intelligence foundation. |
| Circuit | Infrastructure | The org nervous system: the real-time event / CDC layer moving data across systems. |
| The Grid | Security | The AI control plane: auth, rate limiting, the kill-switch, and audit for all agent traffic. |
| Identity | Security | Self-hosted, org-scoped auth: the OIDC provider every Runline app authenticates against. |
| The Tower | Apps | The observability and command surface: Runner activity, costs, audit. |
| Rally | Apps | The platform-wide chat, presence, and messaging ecosystem (CometChat-backed). |
| Arc | Apps | Agent Relay Chat: the mobile and web client for talking to Runners. |
Recent shifts
Playbooks → Workstreams (renamed). Rallies (orchestration) → dropped; "Rally" now means the chat ecosystem. Derez removed as a lexicon term. Canonical product-overview.md still uses the old vocabulary and needs a pass.