Core concepts
The words the docs and the app use: workspace, stage, track, milestone, mission, run, task, approval, connector, memory and more.
Updated 2026-10-13
These are the nouns you will meet. A longer alphabetical list lives in the Glossary.
Your company
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Workspace | One company and one plan. You can have several and switch between them. Plans, credits and limits are counted per workspace. |
| Dossier | The confirmed facts about your company from onboarding. Every agent reads it. |
| Stage | Where the company is on a single seven-step ladder, from Idea to Scale. |
| Track | A kind of work in the plan: Product, Growth, Revenue, Team, Fundraising, Operations or Customer. |
| Milestone (task) | One piece of work in the plan, with why it matters, steps, effort, owner, priority and dependencies. |
| Graduation criteria | What must be true to leave a stage. |
Your cofounder and team
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pytheus | Your AI cofounder, on every plan. Leads the team and has its own computer. |
| Employee | An AI teammate hired from a role: researcher, writer, engineer, analyst, outreach (SDR) or operator. |
| Computer | A cloud sandbox that belongs to one agent, with its own files and a folder the whole team shares. |
| Run | One piece of work an agent does, with a status, steps, a report and files. |
| Tracked task | A run with a brief, a definition of done, a channel, a progress log and a check before it reaches you. |
| Thread | A chat: with Pytheus, with one employee, or a group chat. |
| Memory | Facts, preferences, decisions and findings the whole team shares and reads before it starts. |
Work and safety
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Mission | A task from the plan (or one you typed) opened as a workspace with a chat and a canvas of outputs. |
| Library | Everything saved: research, documents, notes, canvases and competitor deep-dives. |
| Approval | A card showing the exact action an agent wants to take outside Pythe. You approve, edit or reject. |
| Autopilot | A paid setting that skips the wait for a short list of actions. It never covers publishing a website. |
| Connector | A connected app such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, GitHub, Stripe or PostHog. |
| Credits | The allowance for AI work. Counted from model use: 10,000 tokens is one credit. |
| Computer time | How long agent computers run, counted in minutes against your plan. |
| MCP | The open protocol your own AI tools use to talk to Pythe. See The MCP server. |
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