# Glossary {#glossary}


Key terms and concepts used throughout Ever Gauzy.


## A {#a}


| Term                | Definition                                   |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Activity Log**    | Record of entity changes for auditing        |
| **Approval Policy** | Rules for approving time-off, expenses, etc. |
| **API Key**         | Programmatic authentication token per tenant |


## B-C {#b-c}


| Term          | Definition                               |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| **Broadcast** | Organization-wide announcement           |
| **CQRS**      | Command Query Responsibility Segregation |
| **CRM**       | Customer Relationship Management         |


## D-E {#d-e}


| Term           | Definition                                |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Daily Plan** | Daily task planning and organization      |
| **Deal**       | Sales opportunity in a pipeline stage     |
| **Employee**   | A user with an employee profile in an org |
| **Entity**     | A database table/model in the system      |


## F-G {#f-g}


| Term             | Definition                                 |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| **Feature Flag** | Toggle to enable/disable platform features |
| **Guard**        | NestJS middleware for authorization        |
| **Gauzy AI**     | AI service for job matching and analytics  |


## I-K {#i-k}


| Term               | Definition                          |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------- |
| **Invoice**        | Billing document sent to clients    |
| **Integration**    | Connection to a third-party service |
| **KPI**            | Key Performance Indicator           |
| **Knowledge Base** | In-app help center with articles    |


## M-O {#m-o}


| Term             | Definition                                      |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| **MikroORM**     | TypeScript ORM with identity map pattern        |
| **Multi-ORM**    | Gauzy's dual ORM support (TypeORM + MikroORM)   |
| **Multi-Tenant** | Architecture serving multiple tenants in one DB |
| **Organization** | A business entity within a tenant               |
| **OKR**          | Objectives and Key Results                      |


## P-R {#p-r}


| Term               | Definition                                   |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Pipeline**       | Sales pipeline with stages for deal tracking |
| **Plugin**         | Extension module adding new functionality    |
| **RBAC**           | Role-Based Access Control                    |
| **RequestContext** | Thread-local storage for tenant/user context |


## S-T {#s-t}


| Term          | Definition                                   |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Sprint**    | Time-boxed iteration for agile development   |
| **Tenant**    | Top-level isolation unit (company/workspace) |
| **Time Log**  | A recorded period of work                    |
| **Time Slot** | A 10-minute subdivision of a time log        |
| **Timesheet** | Weekly/monthly time log summary for approval |
| **TypeORM**   | TypeScript ORM for SQL databases             |


## U-Z {#u-z}


| Term          | Definition                                   |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| **UUID**      | Universally Unique Identifier for entity IDs |
| **Verdaccio** | Private npm registry for internal packages   |
| **Widget**    | Dashboard component showing specific data    |
| **Worker**    | Background job processor using BullMQ        |