Words we use · ZB Stack Docs

Word	What it means on ZB Stack
AI team	Eight AI teammates that do the work of a business: Lead, Product, Design, Coding, Marketing, Sales, Operations and Service.
AI teammate	One member of your AI team. Each one does one kind of work.
Lead	The AI teammate that turns your goal into a plan, hands out tasks, checks progress and keeps the record.
Goal	The result you want, in your own words. A goal becomes a plan.
Task	One piece of work with one result: a spec, a file of code, an image, a reply to a customer.
Maestro	The AI model at the heart of ZB Stack. It knows every AI model and every cloud, and routes every task to both.
Model Router	Maestro choosing the model for a task.
Cloud Router	Maestro choosing the cloud for a job.
Route	The model chosen for a task, as the task starts.
Check	A test, a review or a rule that a result must pass, run by something that did not produce it.
Re-route	When a check fails, the task goes to a stronger model. Only that task moves.
The board	The models Maestro uses most for each kind of work today. Twelve models are on it.
Rule	Where a task may go and how much it may spend. Set once, applied to every task it covers.
ZB Cloud	The cloud that runs on every cloud: global, sovereign, GPU and decentralized.
Job	What ZB Cloud runs, and what it needs: the app or model, the GPUs, the memory, the deadline.
Policy	Where a job may run, how much it may spend and any other rules.
Placement	The Cloud Router's choice of cloud for a job, made again when price, capacity or location changes.
Record	Every task and job, with its model, its cloud, the reason, the check and the cost.
Balance	The one amount that pays for every model and every cloud you use.
Sponsored model	A model whose cost is covered by a Foundation partner. Work on it is free.
Program	The sponsored models you may use, and for how long.
Work board	Every task your AI team has started: in progress, ready or done, with its cost.
Business knowledge	Your products, customers, prices and brand, saved once for every AI teammate.
Zero DevOps	The system operates itself. ZB Cloud runs releases, scaling, backups and failover for you.