Pillars
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intelligent Registries | The system that defines entity categories, data shapes, operations, views, pages, and components for your workspace. |
| Context Registry | Data layer — entity types, context types, instances, operations, views, Entity Manager, Intelligence Timeline. |
| Visual Registry | Presentation layer — registry pages and components that display or capture registry data. |
Context Registry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entity type | A category of record (people, businesses, files, ideas, outcomes, assets, etc.). |
| Context type | A structured data shape — fields and prompts for capturing or extracting information. |
| Primary context type | The main data slot created with a new entity instance. |
| Instance | One live record of an entity type — a specific person, file, business, etc. |
| Shape of data | Informal term for how context types define fields and validation on entities. |
| Subscription | Your organization’s activation of an entity type, context type, or page for use in your facility. |
| Entity Manager | Tool for browsing instances, viewing context, and adding records. |
| Context operation | Saved configuration for query, fetch, ingest, update, or upsert against registry data. |
| Data view | Saved presentation/filter on read results (catalog expanding). |
| Intelligence Timeline | Unified, per-organization audit trail for each entity instance — ordered events for adds, updates, verification, flags, branches, and questions. |
Operation types
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Query | List or aggregate read. |
| Fetch | Focused read of one entity or small result set. |
| Ingest | Insert new context records. |
| Update | Patch existing context on a matched entity. |
| Upsert | Match then update or ingest. |
Visual Registry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Registry page | A composed screen (list, dashboard, landing page) subscribed by your workspace. |
| Page code | URL slug for a page (e.g. under /p/[page-code]). |
| Registry component | Reusable UI block — lists, layouts, add-instance, add-context, etc. |
| Query config | Backend configuration for what data a page or component loads. |
| Render config | Layout configuration for how components appear on a page. |
| Surface key | Named slot where a component renders (main, toolbar, hero, …). |
| Component builder test | Preview environment for iterating on component configurations. |
Component families
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entity list | Tabular list of entity instances with search and actions. |
| Layout kit | Hero, intro, section, CTA, and page shell components. |
| Add instance | Flow to create a new entity record. |
| Add context | Flow to attach structured context to an existing entity. |
Relationships
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Facility | Your organization or workspace scope for subscriptions and operations. |
| Type code | Internal identifier generated from display names — rarely edited directly. |
When to use what
| I want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Define people, files, or other categories | Entity types & context types |
| Understand how context history accumulates | Intelligence Timeline |
| Browse or add live records | Entity Manager |
| Save a reusable read or write | Context operations |
| Build a user-facing list or dashboard | Pages |
| Understand list/form building blocks | Components |
| Run a process on instances | Tracks |
| Explore fit for my business | Use Case Brainstorm agent in Evolve |