- Personal assistant (AI)
- An AI helper that keeps track of your stuff, reminds you, plans and drafts things, and asks before doing anything big.
- Chief of staff bot
- The boss helper bot. You talk to it; it hands jobs to the right small helpers and gives you one short report.
- Helper bot
- A small AI helper with a name and one job, like meals, events or bills.
- Agent
- An AI that can take steps on its own, like browsing websites or filling forms, until the job is done or it needs your OK.
- Routine
- A job your helper does by itself at the same time every day or week, like a morning note.
- Scheduled task
- Another name for a routine. ChatGPT calls them Tasks, Perplexity calls them Scheduled Tasks, Gemini calls them scheduled actions, Grok calls them Automations.
- Morning note
- A short daily message from your helper. Line 1 is always what changed since yesterday.
- Receipt
- Proof that something is true or done: a link, a short quote, a screenshot, a confirmation number or a call transcript.
- Read-back
- When your helper repeats the plan to you (what, where, when, how much, who) before asking for your yes.
- Approval (the yes rule)
- Your OK for one exact action. Nothing gets bought, booked, paid, sent or posted without it.
- Plugin
- An add-on you switch on to give your bot a new power, like a phone number. Speko is a plugin for Grok Bot.
- Connector
- A link between your AI and another app, like your email or calendar. You sign in yourself.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- A techie, standard way to plug tools into an AI by hand. Ready-made plugins let you skip it.
- Transcript
- The written-down words of a phone call, so you can read exactly what was said.
- 10DLC
- Short for 10-digit long code. A US phone company sign-up that apps and bots need before texting from a normal local number.
- SMS
- A plain text message on a phone.
- Area code
- The first 3 numbers of a US phone number. Picking your local one helps local shops answer.
- Favorites file (memory)
- A running list your helper keeps of what you like and don't like, so you don't repeat yourself.
- Least privilege
- Giving a helper only the access it needs for its job, nothing more.
- MFA (two-step sign-in)
- A second lock on your account, like a code on your phone, on top of your password.
