Reference
Glossary
Definitions for common CiCi terms.
APM — AI-based participant model used to produce modeled responses.
Authoritative observation — The signal observation used for reporting after the applicable mapping or review process completes.
Behavior Refinement Brief — A frozen, versioned interpretation and recommendation artifact.
Evidence basis — The class and source of evidence supporting a claim.
Human validation — Collection, review, and sufficiency assessment of participant responses.
Implementation Packet — Copyable intervention instructions, drafts, examples, acceptance criteria, and regression tests.
MIA — CiCi’s AI analysis and generation layer. MIA-generated hypotheses remain labeled as hypotheses.
Notebook — The container for an evaluation program and its product context.
Scenario — A shared situation used to compare variants and evidence arms.
Signal — A defined behavior or response pattern the evaluation can score.
Signal Gap — The human difference between variants minus the APM difference between variants, blocked by shared scenario.
Sprint — A frozen execution of an evaluation design.
Sufficiency — Whether the collected and reviewed evidence supports the intended claim under the frozen rules.
Variant — A product experience or configuration included as one comparison arm.