§Glossary
The words we use, defined.
Verification work depends on precise vocabulary. These are the terms used across AnKre and this site, in plain English.
- Audit trail
- The record of collection, checks and reviewer decisions across an investigation, kept so that any finding can be reconstructed later.
- Claim
- A statement under examination: a role held, a shareholding, a qualification, a licence, a corporate relationship. In AnKre the claim is the unit of work.
- Claim status
- The verification outcome of a claim: Supported, Unresolved or Contradicted, always shown with the evidence, source and retrieval date behind it.
- Contradicted
- The available records say something different from the claim.
- Data residency
- The commitment that a client's content is stored and processed in the region named in its contract. Only content-free sign-in, billing and routing information sits outside it.
- Data room
- The space where a seller files the documents of a transaction. AnKre ingests it, makes it searchable and checks the claims it contains.
- Dedicated environment
- An environment used by a single client, deployed from the same release as every other AnKre environment.
- Evidence
- The passage or record that speaks to a claim, held as structured evidence with its source and retrieval date rather than as an undifferentiated attachment.
- Evidence inspector
- The panel that opens the supporting passage of a finding beside it, without leaving the finding.
- Evidence pack
- The underlying documents and records of an investigation, organised so a reviewer can retrace the work.
- Finding
- The interpretation of the evidence about a claim, with its status, its evidence and the reviewer's decision. No finding is released without a named analyst's decision.
- Identity resolution
- Reconciling the different appearances of one person or organisation across sources into a single subject. Strong identifiers come first, uncertain matches go to a person, and merges can be undone.
- Knowledge graph
- The structure the evidence lives in: subjects, the relationships between them, the claims made about them and the sources behind each one. Every node and edge carries its source and retrieval date.
- KYB
- Know your business: checking who an organisation is and who stands behind it.
- OSINT
- Open-source intelligence: information from public sources such as registries, filings, court records and the press. AnKre uses it only within a file's purpose, under the source's licence and passively.
- Proof of value
- An evaluation of AnKre on a live file, run on your own case rather than on a scripted example.
- Retrieval date
- When a piece of evidence was obtained, kept apart from the date of the fact and the date of the document.
- Seller questions
- Questions to the seller in a transaction, drafted from gaps and contradictions and linked to the findings they concern.
- Suggest-only agent
- An agent whose output is a labelled proposal waiting for an analyst's decision; it never creates a finding on its own.
- Supported
- The available records back the claim.
- Unresolved
- The available records do not settle the claim in either direction. Unresolved is never reported as a clean result, and the missing evidence is named.
- W&I insurance
- Warranty and indemnity insurance in an acquisition. Insurers, like lenders, ask where each due diligence conclusion comes from.
- Workstream
- One discipline of a due diligence. AnKre supports nine: financial, legal, tax, commercial, technology, HR, ESG, cyber and operational.
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