Reference
Glossary
The core objects used by the analyst and Demand intelligence.
- Owner fact: a business detail, exposure or number that the owner stated or confirmed.
- Analyst hypothesis: a possible exposure inferred for exploration. It remains a suggestion until the owner confirms that exact exposure.
- Exposure: the business loss mechanism, bounded by a harm direction and owner-relevant window.
- Exposure reference: the stable identity used to bind an answer or amount to one exact exposure.
- Economic driver: the outside variable or event that measurably changes the exposure.
- Series: a recurring family of event contracts. A series is not itself a tradeable contract.
- Event: a dated or grouped occurrence that provides context for one or more contracts.
- Contract: a tradeable binary market whose record contains resolution terms, dates, prices and current status.
- Side: YES or NO, selected because it pays in the harmful or promotional world.
- Relationship: the causal or correlated link between an exposure and a contract side.
- Position candidate: a priced contract-side pair eligible to enter advisory sizing.
- Position: an advisory quantity vetted by the server, with cost and payout calculated deterministically.
- Signal: a useful observation that should not be sized in the current run.
- Gap: a clear business outcome for which no supplied candidate is useful enough.
- Market generation: one immutable, verified set of market, event and Sports artifacts.
- Public generation: the Partner Demand ledger identity shared by a coherent set of responses.
- Checkpoint: an opaque continuation issued after a complete partner snapshot or change page.
- Cohort: a complete privacy group of customer evidence released on a shared time bucket.
- Demand record: a normalized public representation of a modeled gap or released customer evidence.
- Receipt: a public-safe record of one selected contract-side ledger.
- Freshness: the age of the evidence, distinct from response generation or client checked time.
Similar terms that must remain distinct
| Terms | Difference |
|---|---|
| Exposure and contract | The exposure is the business loss. The contract is the outside observation. |
| Candidate and position | A candidate can be considered. A position has passed verification and sizing. |
| Signal and gap | A signal preserves a useful current observation. A gap names the missing outcome. |
| Market generation and public generation | Market generation identifies market-data artifacts. Public generation identifies Partner Demand publication state. |
| Freshness and generated time | Freshness belongs to evidence. Generated time belongs to the response. |