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AI & Automation Glossary
Plain-language definitions of the 43 enterprise AI, business automation and AI transformation terms used across Exodus Markets — each linked to the guide, article or use case that covers it in depth.
AI strategy & transformation
AI transformation
The process of redesigning how an organisation works so that artificial intelligence becomes part of its everyday operations — its workflows, decisions, customer interactions and knowledge — rather than a set of isolated tools.
AI adoption
Giving people AI tools to use in their work. On its own, adoption speeds up individual tasks; it does not change the workflows, systems, roles or governance around those tools, which is what AI transformation does.
Workflow redesign
Mapping a process as it really runs — including workarounds and handovers — and redesigning it before anything is automated, deciding which steps AI carries and where people decide. It is where most of the value in an AI transformation is found.
AI readiness assessment
A review of an organisation’s current workflows, systems, data and team capability that shows where AI can be applied now, what must be in place first, and the baseline results will be measured against.
Enterprise AI strategy
A plan for where and how an organisation will use AI to improve its operations. A practical strategy starts from business outcomes and workflows, prioritises use cases by value, feasibility and risk, defines governance and knowledge foundations, and measures results against a baseline.
Digital transformation
Moving an organisation’s processes onto software and digital channels. AI transformation builds on it by changing what that software can do: understanding language and documents, making recommendations and carrying out multi-step work, with people overseeing the outcome.
Enterprise AI & knowledge
Enterprise AI
The use of artificial intelligence inside an organisation’s own operations — connected to its data, knowledge, workflows and systems, and governed by its security, permission and oversight rules.
Consumer AI
General-purpose AI tools that work on whatever a single user gives them. They have no access to company systems, no knowledge of who in an organisation may see what, and no accountability beyond that user.
Approved knowledge sources
The documents, policies, product information and records an organisation has chosen to make available to AI — each with a named owner responsible for keeping it current.
Permission-aware retrieval
Retrieving information for a user only from sources that user is authorised to see, so AI answers respect the organisation’s existing access rules.
Also called: Permission-aware search
Enterprise search
Searching an organisation’s internal documents and systems in natural language, instead of guessing file names or folder paths.
AI knowledge assistant
An interface that lets employees ask questions in plain language and receive answers drawn from approved company information, such as policies, procedures, product knowledge and project documents.
Also called: Internal AI assistant
Document intelligence
Using AI to help people understand and work with large volumes of documents: summarisation, information extraction, document comparison, question answering and classification.
Automation & AI agents
Business automation
The use of software to carry out repeatable business tasks and processes with minimal manual effort — for example routing requests, updating records, sending confirmations and generating documents.
Business process automation
Automating an end-to-end process — for example, from enquiry to booked appointment — rather than a single task.
Also called: BPA
Workflow automation
Moving work between people and systems automatically: assignments, approvals, notifications and updates.
Traditional automation
Automation that follows fixed rules on structured data. It is precise and predictable for stable, fully defined steps, but fails or hands work to a person when an input does not match the expected format.
Also called: Rule-based automation
AI automation
Automation that uses AI to interpret unstructured inputs such as messages, documents and calls, and adapts to variation. Because AI output is probabilistic, it relies on confidence thresholds, checks and human review.
Intelligent automation
The combination of rule-based automation with artificial intelligence, so that automated workflows can handle work involving language, documents and interpretation as well as structured, rule-driven steps.
Also called: IA
AI agent
An AI system that pursues a goal across multiple steps — interpreting a request, retrieving information, using tools or business systems and deciding what to do next — rather than producing a single response.
Agentic AI
AI systems that can pursue a goal across several steps with a degree of autonomy. In business use, agentic AI works within defined boundaries: which systems it may touch, which actions need approval and when it must escalate to a person.
Chatbot
Software that holds a conversation and answers questions, usually from scripts or a knowledge base. A chatbot’s job ends when the conversation ends; an AI agent’s job ends when the work is done.
Autonomy levels
A design pattern that sets how much an AI agent may do on its own: steps it completes alone (such as confirmations), steps it prepares for human approval (such as quotes) and steps it always escalates (such as complaints).
Governance, oversight & measurement
AI governance
The policies, roles and controls that determine how AI is used in an organisation: who can use which capabilities, which knowledge sources AI may draw on, how data is handled, which actions need human approval and how outcomes are reviewed.
Human oversight
Keeping people accountable for decisions, approvals and sensitive interactions in AI-powered workflows. The principle: AI handles repetition; people handle judgement.
Also called: Human-in-the-loop, HITL
Human escalation
Moving a conversation or task from AI to a person — triggered by topic, sentiment, customer value, repeated failure or a simple request for a person — with a summary and history attached so nobody starts from zero.
Also called: Human handover
Auditability
The ability to review what an AI system retrieved and did, so outcomes can be checked, explained and improved.
Baseline
A measurement of how a workflow performs before AI is introduced — time per task, volumes, response times, error rates and costs. Without one, the effect of AI cannot be proven.
AI ROI
The return from an AI deployment: gains measured against a baseline — time, capacity, quality, cost per transaction and revenue influenced — compared with the full cost, including implementation, licences, oversight and change management.
Also called: Return on investment from AI
Customer & marketing operations
AI customer service
Using AI to handle the high-volume, well-understood parts of customer service — common questions, status checks, triage and routing, information collection and summaries — so human agents can focus on complex, sensitive and high-value cases.
Voice AI
Technology that uses speech recognition, language understanding and speech synthesis to handle phone interactions — answering common enquiries, taking appointment requests, collecting information and routing calls — with transfer to a person for anything complex or sensitive.
Human + AI customer operations
An operating model that assigns routine, repetitive service work to AI and keeps people responsible for judgement: complaints, sensitive cases, negotiations, exceptions and high-impact decisions.
AI lead qualification
Using AI and workflow rules to respond to new enquiries, collect the information needed to judge fit, and route qualified leads to the right salesperson — with follow-ups scheduled automatically.
AI marketing automation
Using AI and workflow automation to reduce the repetitive work in marketing — drafting and adapting content, routing reviews and approvals and preparing multi-channel execution — while marketers keep responsibility for strategy, brand judgement and final approval.
AI creative workflow
A structured process in which AI assists each stage of creative production — research, ideation, drafting, production and adaptation — while people own the brief, creative direction, review and final approval.
Campaign adaptation
Turning one approved campaign idea into the variations each channel, audience and market needs — website, social, email, paid ads, sales materials and regional versions — with every variation reviewed and approved before launch.
Brand-safe AI content
Generative AI content produced inside a controlled workflow: drafted from approved brand knowledge, checked against messaging rules, routed through review and approved by an accountable person before it is published.
The Exodus ecosystem
Exodus A.C.T. Programme
The Exodus A.C.T. Programme (AI Capability & Transformation) is Exodus Markets’ structured programme for helping businesses identify, design and implement practical AI opportunities — from discovery and workflow redesign through to build, deployment and measurement.
Also called: Exodus A.C.T., AI Capability & Transformation Programme
Knowledge
Knowledge answers questions from your company’s own documents, and only shows each person what they are allowed to see.
Base
Base is the business hub from Exodus. Your customers, bookings, catalog and payments sit in one place, and four apps run on top: Chat, Desk, Knowledge and Social. Ask Base, the built-in assistant, works across all of them.
Chat
Chat puts WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE and web chat in one team inbox. AI replies, routes and follows up, and hands over to a person when needed.
Desk
Desk handles customer service and calls. AI answers the routine requests and passes the hard ones to your team with the full story.
Social
Social helps you make and schedule posts, pictures and video for your brand. Nothing goes out without your OK.
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