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01Glossary

The definitions the suite runs on.

Six terms. Each one sentence you can quote, with both languages. Where stage 05 chose the language, this is where it becomes citable.

Brief
A five-field contract: objective, audience, constraint, deliverables, source, that must be checked before the studio starts. Spark*form flags the vague field, not the writer.
Retainer utilisation
Committed retainer hours divided by burned hours in the period, shown per client and per project. A utilisation above one means the fee is paying for hours not yet delivered; below one means the scope is eating margin.
Blended margin
Fee minus the cost of burned hours at the blended rate, divided by fee. Flow*form recomputes it from fee, committed hours, and blended rate, so a wrong baseline shows as a wrong margin, not a surprise at invoicing.
Capability coverage
Which of the four capabilities: strategy, craft, analytics, delivery, a team can field at a given seniority, mapped from the roster in Skill*form. Gaps name the hire or the training, not the title.
Tool sprawl
When the same job is paid for in two or more tools because no one holds the inventory. Stack*form surfaces the overlap by owner, cost, and renewal date; the stack-audit tool draws it from numbers you paste.
Institutional memory
Client knowledge that survives turnover because an answer carries its sources. Brain*form stores what was agreed, where, and when, with locators precise enough to open the document and check.