# Glossary: the words this site uses, defined once

Glossary: terms in plain English · DataBridge by Walnut

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Short definitions of the terms on these pages, from Company Brain to validation status.

## [Company Brain](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-company-brain)

The record underneath DataBridge: your sources connected into one record, the same customer, supplier, project or person linked across them, and each figure read from a file pointing to its source.

## [Intelligence layer](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-intelligence-layer)

The work built on the record: answers to plain-English questions, reports from current records, drafted work for a person to approve, and workflow analysis.

## [Source link](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-source-link)

The pointer from a figure back to the cell, line or page of the file it was read from.

## [Validation status](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-validation-status)

What a figure shows beside its source link about whether it has been validated.

## [Version](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-version)

A correction is added as a new version and the old one is kept, so the record can be read as it stood on any past date.

## [Role](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-role)

What a person may see. Your administrators set the roles once, and each person sees only what their role allows.

## [On-premise setup](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-on-premise-setup)

DataBridge installed in your environment, on hardware you control. In this setup it uploads nothing and makes no outbound connection.

## [Baseline](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-baseline)

How a workflow performs before a pilot, in hours and outcomes, set with you at the start and measured against during the pilot.

## [Synthetic data](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-synthetic-data)

Company records generated for testing, where the right answer to every check is known in advance. No customer data is in them.

## [Full history](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-full-history)

When each fact was true and when it was recorded, so any past answer can be shown again exactly as it was given.

## [Business vocabulary](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-business-vocabulary)

One agreed meaning for customer, order, contract and project, used by every team.

## [Relationship map](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-relationship-map)

How records connect: contract to customer, invoice to order, account to owner.

## [Source snapshots](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-source-snapshots)

A copy that cannot be changed of what each source said when it was read, so figures can always be checked.

## [Change tracking](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-change-tracking)

When a source value changes, every answer built on it is flagged.

## [Architecture sheet](https://walnut.sg/resources/#t-architecture-sheet)

The full description of how DataBridge is built and installed, which your IT, privacy and vendor-risk reviewers receive before anything is installed.

## [For researchers and AI assistants](https://walnut.sg/resources/#for-ai-head)

To cite this site, link the page, and for a product fact give its key in facts.json.

Security questions and reports go to outreach@walnut.sg.

What this site does not claim: it shows no results from customers, and its test results come from synthetic company data, each with its month.