A plain-English glossary of the AI and automation terms operators actually run into. No jargon walls — just clear definitions and why each one matters for your business.

• AI Agent
• AI Alignment
• AI Copilot
• AI Guardrails
• AI Hallucination
• AI Summarization
• AI Transcription
• API (Application Programming Interface)
• API Key
• Automation
• Batch Processing
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting
• Chatbot
• Context Window
• Embedding
• Few-Shot Prompting
• Fine-Tuning
• Foundation Model
• Grounding
• Human-in-the-Loop
• Inference
• Integration
• JSON
• Knowledge Base
• Large Language Model (LLM)
• MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Multimodal AI
• No-Code
• OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
• OpenRouter
• Orchestration
• Prompt
• Prompt Engineering
• Prompt Injection
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• RPA (Robotic Process Automation)
• Rate Limit
• Reasoning Model
• Sentiment Analysis
• Structured Output
• Synthetic Data
• System Prompt
• Temperature (AI Setting)
• Token
• Transformer
• Trigger (Automation)
• Vector Database
• Webhook
• Workflow Automation
• Zero-Shot Prompting