AiGovOps Foundation · Plain-language terms
Glossary
Short definitions for the terms used across the Foundation’s tools and practice.
- OVERT
- An open standard for independently verifiable runtime evidence.
- Beacon
- An OVERT-conformant runtime that produces signed, verifiable receipts of AI decisions.
- Receipt
- Signed, verifiable evidence of an AI decision.
- Gate Check
- A ten-minute questionnaire that produces an audit plan.
- Gate
- A decision point in the Foundation’s four-gate governance framework.
- Policy as code
- Governance policies expressed as versioned, tested code before deployment.
- Practice
- Four one-hour levels with worksheets and a manifesto.
- Library
- One hundred verified AI-harm cases mapped to NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and OWASP.
- Umbrella
- A Foundation tool that declares policies.
- Lantern
- A Foundation tool that reads evidence.
- AiGovOps
- Treating AI governance like code: versioned, tested, and verifiable before deployment.