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Glossary

Source of truth

The agreed system of record for a given entity or number.

Definition

The single place the business agrees a fact lives — the record for a deal, a property, an investor, a project or a definition such as what counts as an active pipeline item. Intelligence work is only reliable when each fact has one owner and one authoritative location.

How AEGIS uses it

Established during the ESTABLISH TRUTH stage of the AEGIS method.

See also

Related terms

  • AI operating system

    A governed system that unifies people, data, workflows and intelligence.

  • Data contract

    The agreed shape, owner and meaning of a data set moving between systems.

Put the vocabulary to work

An Architecture Assessment documents how these concepts apply to your systems, data and decision rights, and produces a blueprint, roadmap and quote.