Glossary of Autonomous Business Intelligence

Autonomous Business Intelligence

A persistent operational intelligence layer that watches a business continuously, detects what changed enough to matter, recommends what to do next, and verifies whether the action worked.

Passive intelligence

A reporting system that waits for a human to ask the right question. Traditional dashboards are usually passive intelligence.

Operational memory

The persistent record of decisions, workflows, context, and outcomes that lets intelligence accumulate over time.

Traceability

The property that every recommendation can be followed back to the evidence and source data that produced it.

Constraint

The binding limit that prevents the business from improving. Constraints create symptoms, but they are not always where the team is looking.

Recommendation

A source-traced statement of what should happen next, why it matters, and what evidence supports it.

Verification

The process of checking whether a recommendation worked after action was taken.

Intelligence layer

A layer that sits across existing business tools, reads their data, and reasons across them without replacing them.

Source trail

The records, fields, metrics, transcripts, or documents behind a claim.

Judgment

The human contribution in an ABI system. The system does the reasoning. The human makes the call.