Words we use
Plain definitions of the terms you will meet in WethosAI: XO, profile, Twin, Virtual Member, Brainstorm, Simulation and the rest.
Every article in this Help Center tries to explain a term the first time it uses it. This page collects those definitions in one place, so you can look one up without reading the article it came from.
People and models
Profile. What WethosAI knows about how a person works: how they take in information, whether they pay more attention to people or to facts, how quickly they want to reach a decision, and how they like work to be organized. You build your own profile when you join. It is a description of working habits. It is not a personality type, and it is not a score.
The four dimensions. The four parts of a profile, named Ideas, Relational, Action and Order. The four dimensions behind a profile explains each one.
Twin. An AI model of a specific person, built with that person's permission and participation. It answers questions the way that person would tend to, so others can prepare for a conversation with them. The person decides what it learns from and whether it stays active. Twins: creating and training yours.
Virtual Member. An AI model of a specific person who is not on the platform, built from their public professional record and from information your organization already holds. Less detailed than a Twin, because the person did not take part in building it. Virtual Members.
Expert. A built-in AI participant that speaks from the point of view of a role rather than a specific person: a chief financial officer, a chief information security officer, and five others. You add one when nobody in your group holds that perspective. Utilizing Experts.
The AI
XO. The AI assistant inside WethosAI. It knows your profile, the documents and conversations in the space you are asking from, and the profiles of any people you name. You use it to prepare for decisions, meetings and difficult conversations. Understanding and using XO.
XO Facilitator. A setting that lets XO speak up in a Brainstorm on its own, for example to correct a factual mistake or to point out a question nobody answered. You turn it on or off per conversation.
Places where work happens
Group. A workspace for a set of people who work together: a department, a leadership team, or the people on one project. Admins create groups. Brainstorms and Simulations happen inside a group. A Core Group is a standing group; a Project Group is set up for one initiative.
Brainstorm. A workspace for working through one decision or initiative with a chosen set of people, with XO taking part. It holds the conversation, the documents, and a record of what was decided. Brainstorms, Breakouts and Simulations.
Breakout. A smaller conversation inside a Brainstorm, for a side question that only some of the people need to work on. Its results can be published back into the main Brainstorm.
Simulation. A Brainstorm that AI participants (Twins, Virtual Members and Experts) run first, before the real people join. It shows how the discussion is likely to go and what it is likely to conclude. In the product it is labelled a Simulated Brainstorm, and sometimes an AutoBrainstorm. Running a Simulation.
Shared Conversation. A conversation inside a group that all members of the group can see, with XO available as a participant. Persistent and shared conversations.
Things a Brainstorm produces
Artifacts. The documents attached to a Brainstorm, kept in a panel of their own so XO and every participant can refer to them.
Decisions Hub. The list of decisions made in a Brainstorm, each linked to the point in the conversation where it was made and to the people who contributed. The Decisions Hub.
Show Descendant Decisions. A setting in a Brainstorm that also lists the decisions made in its Breakouts.
Accounts and access
Admin. A person who can manage the organization's account: add people, assign licenses, create groups, and see how much the platform is used. Admins cannot read anyone's private conversations. Privacy: who can see what.
License. A seat on the platform. Access to features follows the license assigned to you.
Sync Point. A folder or file in Google Drive or Microsoft 365 that you connect to WethosAI so its contents stay up to date here automatically. Google Drive integration.