Glossary
Core terminology used throughout Seraa AI
Glossary
AI Agent - Specialized AI assistants that perform specific legal tasks (drafting, review, extraction). They work alongside humans as teammates.
Block - The fundamental unit of legal work within a Routine. Each Block represents a single task, action, or decision point.
Collaborator - Any user invited to participate in an Engagement. Engagement roles define their permissions (Owner, Lead, Member, Observer). Additional access levels (including Signer) apply at the Routine block level.
Engagement - The central container for a legal matter (case, deal, project). It securely holds all documents, Routines, and collaborators.
Extraction - A single question with a data type (Boolean, Date, Number, or Text) used by the Extraction Agent to pull specific information from documents.
Prompt - Specific instructions provided to an AI Agent to constrain and guide its output (e.g., "Draft an NDA for a software vendor").
Reminders - Trackable alerts for deadlines, court filings, or obligations that are either manually created or extracted from documents by AI.
Require Human Review - A critical security setting that pauses a Routine until a human attorney approves the AI's output.
Routine - A reusable workflow template composed of Blocks that guide a legal process from start to finish.
Rulebook - A collection of firm-specific rules and standards that the AI Review Agent uses to check documents for compliance.
Smart Document - An AI-enabled document supporting real-time collaboration, auto-versioning, and Merge Fields for automatic data population.
Merge Field - A placeholder token in a Smart Document (e.g., {{Client_Name}}) that is automatically populated with data from Intake Forms or other sources during a Routine.
Signing Field - A designated zone within a document for signatures, initials, or date-signed stamps that integrates with the Signing block type.
Workspace Type - The category set at the organization level (Litigation, Research, Corporate, Government, or Healthcare) that determines which Block types are available in the Routine builder across your workspace.