Glossary
The words a deliverable gets argued in.
SwarmStack has its own vocabulary for how a team and a swarm of AI turn a brief into a deliverable together, a plan or an RFP, across every Product. Every term, defined once, in one place.
- SwarmPlan
- The versioned planning artifact a Session produces: a document argued into shape by a swarm of AI specialists and vetted human experts, not a chat transcript. Read more →
- Session
- One run of the platform around a single Brief: the room that assembles, the rounds of contention, and the artifact it converges on.
- Brief
- The short problem statement a Creator starts with. Everything the room argues is in service of it.
- Persona
- A specialist seat in the room, such as software, QA, or security. Each Persona argues its own corner, and a Persona can be held by an AI or by a person.
- Orchestrator
- The AI that runs the room: it interviews the Creator, stands up the Personas, assigns the work, referees the debate, and converges the rounds into one plan.
- Round
- One pass of contention. Personas push competing takes and challenge each other; each round sharpens the plan and adds a version.
- Contention
- The disagreement the room surfaces instead of smoothing over. A SwarmPlan earns trust because the contention stays visible: it was argued, not generated.
- Synthesis
- The step where the Orchestrator merges what the room agreed on into the plan, marking the arguments that survived as Decision Records.
- Decision Record (ADR)
- A recorded choice: the option taken, the alternatives it beat, and the reason it won. The plan carries its own rationale.
- Creator
- The person who owns the Brief and drives the Session. The primary SwarmStack user.
- Remote Human Planner (SME)
- A vetted human expert hired into a Session from the marketplace when the AI hits its limit, for a flat per-Session rate.
- Product
- One desk on the SwarmStack platform, with its own deliverable on the shared room-and-contention shape: SwarmPlan (software planning), SwarmRFP (request for proposal), SwarmSurvey (feedback survey). Every Product shares Sessions, the Marketplace, and Connections.
- SwarmRFP
- A second Product on the same room-and-contention shape: a Session that authors a buyer-side Request for Proposal instead of a plan. Read more →
- SwarmSurvey
- A third Product: a conversational survey. You put an idea up and share one link; each respondent has an adaptive conversation with the orchestrator instead of filling a form, and it synthesizes every conversation into one Readout. Read more →
- Readout
- The deliverable of a SwarmSurvey: one synthesized report across every respondent's conversation — what they agreed on, where they split, and the Creator's questions answered.
See the vocabulary at work.
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