Glossary
The words Foreman uses, and exactly what each one means.
Foreman's vocabulary is specific. Guessing at it makes every other page harder to read.
Workspace — an isolated space with its own objectives, agents, integrations, data and billing. You can belong to several and switch between them. Nothing crosses between workspaces.
Chief of Staff — the one agent you talk to by default. It routes work to the rest of the organisation and comes back when it needs you.
Objective — a piece of work your team runs, decomposed into tasks and delegated. Distinct from a chat answer: an objective produces deliverables and has a lifecycle.
Task — one unit of an objective, assigned to an agent, tracked on the objective's board. Distinct from the Tasks page, which is your queue of things awaiting a human.
Deliverable — a versioned artifact produced by an objective. Revising one keeps the previous version.
Approval — a pause where an agent needs a person to decide. Eight types; see The eight approval types.
Brief — a complete, runnable request offered instead of an empty input box. Clicking one starts real work.
Skill — a written procedure granted to specific agents. A procedure, as opposed to memory, which holds facts.
Memory — durable facts injected into every agent's context.
Host — the machine work runs on: your desktop app, or a cloud host.
Channel — a connected source of inbound conversation: email, team chat, social.
Campaign — a multi-touch outbound sequence where each message is drafted per prospect.
Capability — one individual permission. Roles are bundles of capabilities.
Activation — the four things that have to be true before Foreman works properly: business profile, funding, a connected channel, and something delivered.