Glossary
The vocabulary of company memory: organizational memory, decision log, decision debt, lessons learned and evidence.
Cloud Act: definition
The Cloud Act is a 2018 US law allowing US authorities to compel a provider subject to US law to disclose data, regardless of where the servers are located.
Data sovereignty: definition
Data sovereignty is the principle that data is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction that governs it and to whoever can compel access to it.
EU AI Act: definition
The EU AI Act is the European regulation on AI adopted in 2024, built on a risk-tiered approach with rising obligations for transparency and traceability.
MCP (Model Context Protocol): definition
MCP is an open protocol introduced by Anthropic in late 2024 to standardize how AI assistants connect to external sources such as tools and data.
Company memory: definition
Company memory is a company's verifiable and proactive memory: decisions, lessons, signals and evidence that stay under the company's control.
Decision debt: definition
Decision debt is the accumulated cost of decisions made without a usable trace: lost context, reopened debates, and mistakes repeated at full price.
Decision log: definition
A decision log is a chronological register of a team's decisions: the conclusion, the reasoning, the alternatives and the evidence, kept in one place.
Lessons learned: definition
Lessons learned is the structured practice of analyzing a finished project or experiment to extract explicit, reusable knowledge for the whole team.
Organizational memory: definition
Organizational memory is a company's ability to retain, verify and surface what it has learned, decided and experienced, beyond any single individual or tool.
Post-mortem: definition
A post-mortem is the structured, blameless analysis of a failure or incident, run after the fact to surface its causes and extract lessons.