Glossary

The Portuguese column is what we suggest when explaining Motions to a team in Brazil. The app itself is in English.

Term	Português	Meaning
Tenant	conta	One company’s space on Motions: its members, CRM connection, keys, motions and batches. Its files live in a folder in a git repository.
Motion	motion	A sales process written as code: a motion.yaml and the steps it runs.
Version	versão	A motion’s files at one moment, with an id made from their contents. One version is live.
Live	no ar	The version new batches run.
Batch	leva	One run of a motion over a set of companies, usually a CRM list.
Step	etapa	One stage of a motion. Most run code once per company.
Batch step	etapa em lote	A step that runs once over all the companies that reached it.
Checkpoint	parada	A step that holds companies until a time, an event, or a person releases it.
Changeset	pacote	The CRM changes a set of companies’ steps proposed, grouped for one approval.
Approval	ok	An approver’s decision to write a changeset.
Approver	aprovador	A handle in approvers: can answer any question, approve changesets, release checkpoints and make versions live.
Question	dúvida	Something a step asks a person, with options to pick from.
Queue	fila	The kind of a question, with its owner, deadline and default.
Owner (of a queue)	dono	The handle that answers a queue’s questions.
Deadline	prazo	When an unanswered question takes its default.
Default	padrão	What a question resolves to if no one answers by the deadline.
Suggestion	sugestão	The option a step recommends. Low-risk suggestions are taken without asking.
Rule	regra	A value in rules.yaml that steps read, so people can tune a motion without changing code.
Fact	dado	Something a step learned about a company, kept for the steps after it.
Proposal	proposta	A change to the CRM that a step suggests. Nothing is written until a changeset is approved.
Receipt	recibo	What the CRM said about one change: written, skipped or failed.
Lane	situação	Where a company is in a batch: active, waiting, parked, done, held or dropped.
Held	segurada	Taken out of the batch on purpose, to look at later.
Dropped	descartada	Taken out of the batch because it doesn’t fit.
Parked	travada	Stopped by an error, a budget or a timer, until it’s fixed or due.
Continue	desce	An answer that lets the company go on.
Source	fonte	An outside service a step can ask, such as a company registry or an enrichment provider.
Operation	operação	One call a source offers, like cnpj.match.
Cap	teto	The most a step may spend per company, or per batch.
Fixture	fixture	A recorded answer to a source call, for tests and fixture mode.
Fixture mode	modo de teste	A tenant setting that answers built-in source calls from fixtures, for free.
Handle	apelido	A member’s short name in a tenant, used in approvers and queue owners.
Upgrade	atualizar	Moving a running batch to a newer version.