---
title: "Glossary"
description: "The words you will meet in Jsonify, each in a sentence or two."
url: "https://www.jsonify.com/docs/getting-started/glossary"
---

[Documentation](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/) Filter pages

## Getting started

*   [What is Jsonify?](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/)
*   [How pipelines work](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/how-jsonify-works)
*   [Your first pipeline](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/getting-started/first-pipeline)
*   [Workspaces](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/getting-started/workspaces)
*   [Glossary](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/getting-started/glossary)

## Tutorials

*   [Track the Hacker News front page](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/tutorials/hacker-news)
*   [Monitor prices across retailers](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/tutorials/price-monitoring)
*   [Get a Slack alert when a price drops](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/tutorials/slack-price-alert)
*   [Use a dataset from your agent](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/tutorials/agent-query)

## Jason

*   [Chatting with Jason](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/jason/chat)
*   [Changing a pipeline](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/jason/changing-a-pipeline)
*   [Agents, workers and repairs](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/data-agents)

## Pipelines

*   [The pipeline page](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/pipelines/overview)
*   [Statement of work and steps](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/pipelines/statement-of-work)
*   [Inputs and parameters](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/pipelines/inputs)
*   [Settings reference](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/pipelines/settings)
*   [Versions and changelog](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/pipelines/versions)

## Runs

*   [Running a pipeline](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/runs/running)
*   [Scheduling](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/runs/scheduling)
*   [Run detail](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/runs/run-detail)
*   [Run lifecycle](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/runs/lifecycle)
*   [Verification and repair](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/runs/verification-and-repair)

## Datasets

*   [Dataset pages](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/datasets/overview)
*   [Versions](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/datasets/versions)
*   [Query and export](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/datasets/query-and-export)
*   [Row detail and provenance](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/datasets/provenance)
*   [Sharing](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/datasets/sharing)

## Analytics

*   [Dashboards](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/analytics/dashboards)
*   [Newsletters](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/analytics/newsletters)

## Alerts

*   [Alert rules](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/alerts/rules)
*   [Alert history and notifications](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/alerts/history)

## Integrations

*   [Integrations overview](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/integrations/overview)
*   [Slack and email](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/integrations/slack-and-email)
*   [Sheets, warehouses and webhooks](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/integrations/destinations)
*   [Ingest and serve API](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/integrations/api)
*   [Connect your agent (MCP)](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/integrations/mcp)
*   [Command line](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/integrations/cli)

## Workspace and account

*   [Workspace settings](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/workspace/settings)
*   [Team](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/workspace/team)
*   [Billing and usage](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/workspace/billing)
*   [Data retention](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/workspace/data-retention)

## Plans

*   [Radar or Benchmark? Enterprise](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/radar-vs-benchmark)
*   [Row pricing and managed service](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/pricing-model)

## More

*   [Connect your agent](https://www.jsonify.com/connect)
*   [Pricing](https://www.jsonify.com/pricing)
*   [Contact support](https://www.jsonify.com/contact)

[Docs](https://www.jsonify.com/docs/)/Getting started

# Glossary

The words you will meet in Jsonify, each in a sentence or two.

## Organisation and workspace

*   **Organisation.** The account that owns people and billing. Everyone you invite joins the organisation and can see all of its workspaces.
*   **Workspace.** One goal and the data for it: its pipelines, datasets, analytics, alerts and integrations. Most teams have one workspace per data product.
*   **Member.** A person in the organisation. Members can build, run and change anything in any of its workspaces.

## Building

*   **Jason.** The agent that builds, changes and repairs pipelines and answers questions about your data.
*   **Brief.** What you tell Jason: the goal, sources, fields, schedule and any attachments.
*   **Chat.** A conversation with Jason. Each message you send starts a **turn** that Jason works through.
*   **Proposal.** Jason’s plan before a build: sources, fields, schedule. You approve it or refine the brief.
*   **Statement of work.** The plain-language contract on every pipeline: what it collects, from where, how often, and what it publishes.

## Pipelines

*   **Pipeline.** The repeatable definition of a dataset: sources, steps, checks and outputs. It is built and maintained by Jason and executed by workers.
*   **Step.** One stage of a pipeline: fetch a set of pages, extract fields, match products, check rows, publish a dataset.
*   **Version.** An immutable revision of a pipeline. Every build, change and repair creates one; earlier versions are kept.
*   **Active version.** The version scheduled runs use. Only a version that passed review can be active.
*   **Candidate.** A version that has been built but not yet reviewed and activated.
*   **Changelog.** The note attached to each version saying what changed and why.
*   **Input.** Something a run needs from outside the pipeline: a dataset from another pipeline, or a parameter such as a region or a date range.
*   **Parameter.** A named input with a type and a default that can be changed per run.

## Runs

*   **Run.** One execution of a pipeline version. It fetches, extracts, processes, checks and publishes.
*   **Scheduled run.** A run started by the pipeline’s schedule. **Manual run** and **webhook run** are the other two triggers.
*   **Checkpoint.** The point a run has safely reached. A failed or cancelled run can resume from its last checkpoint.
*   **Held row.** A row that failed a check. It is kept with the reason instead of being published.
*   **Auto-heal.** The automatic repair process that starts when a run fails persistently.

## Data

*   **Dataset.** The published table of rows a pipeline produces. A pipeline can publish more than one.
*   **Dataset version.** The rows as they were at one publish. Dashboards, share links and destinations read the **active** version unless pinned to another.
*   **Row.** One record. Every row carries provenance back to the run, step, fetch and source page that produced it.
*   **Provenance.** The chain from a value back to the page it came from, including a screenshot of that page.
*   **Column format.** How a column is displayed and exported: currency, percent, URL, date and so on.

## Delivery and monitoring

*   **Integration.** A connection to another system. Notification integrations (Slack, email) receive alerts; destination integrations (Sheets, webhooks) receive data; service integrations (MCP, CLI) let other tools read your data.
*   **Alert rule.** A condition on a dataset or a run that fires an alert to the channels you choose.
*   **Dashboard.** Widgets generated from one or more datasets, updated on every publish.
*   **Newsletter.** A scheduled written brief generated from fresh data and emailed to recipients.
*   **Share link.** A read-only link to a dataset, dashboard or newsletter issue for people outside the workspace.
*   **MCP.** The protocol that lets Codex, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor and Teams read your datasets and ask Jason for work.

## Billing

*   **Row.** The unit of pricing. You pay for rows that passed checks and were delivered; retries, blocked pages and repairs are not counted.
*   **Row limit.** The monthly ceiling for a workspace. The sidebar meter shows how many rows are left this period.
*   **Top-up.** Extra rows added to the current period.

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