Glossary

Account

You: one sign-in, one profile. An account can belong to several workspaces.

Audit trail

A record of every merged change, who approved it and when.

Builder

The part of Automo Build that reads your message, plans the change, writes the code and checks the result.

Conductor

The orchestration layer for running many projects at once: fleet view, Protected Code Zones, moderation and live health. See Conductor.

Credit

The unit building work is measured in. See How credits work.

Custom domain

A domain you own, pointed at a project, so the app lives at your address.

Custom sandbox

A sandbox image that wraps AI-assisted engineering around an existing stack such as Rails, Java, Go, Python or Node.

Database

The part of the app that remembers things after the browser closes. Records live in tables with access rules.

Doctor

A read-only AI SRE that diagnoses problems on the live app and drafts a fix for approval. See Doctor.

Environment

Either preview (where you are working) or live (what other people see). Publishing moves the preview to live.

Guardrails

Governance for AI changes: business areas, risky-change detection, plain-English policies, human review and an audit trail. See Guardrails.

Integration

A service connected to a project, such as a payment provider, an email sender, a calendar or an AI model.

Live

The published version of the app, served on its address or your custom domain.

Migration

A structured change to a database that already contains data, such as adding a column. Migrations need care and a backup.

Preview

The always-current version of the project while you build. Customers do not see it.

Project

One app: its code, database, history and publishing settings.

Protected Code Zone

An area of code, such as billing or auth, locked so the AI cannot change it without the required approval.

Publish

The action that makes the current preview the live app.

QA

Automated testing that replays key journeys in a browser and gates publishing. See Automated QA.

Role

What a person is allowed to do in a workspace. Separate from the roles inside your app.

Secret

A private value, such as an API key, used only by server code and never placed in browser code.

Security scanning

Static scans, dependency checks and live probes that confirm real vulnerabilities. See Security scanning.

Server function

Code that runs on the server rather than in the browser. Used for anything that needs a secret or a trusted check.

Version

A saved state of a project after a change.

Webhook

An automatic message from one system to another when something happens.

Workspace

The shared home for a team: members, projects, billing and integrations.