Audience: All usersApplies to: Terms used in Zentre AI
Short definitions of the terms used in Zentre AI and in these docs, grouped by topic. Each entry links to the page that explains it in full.
Your organization
| Term | Meaning |
|---|
| Organization | Your company's account in Zentre AI. Administrators manage its details on the Organisation page. |
| Workspace | Manage Workspace in the chat app opens the admin console, where administrators manage people, connectors and workspace settings. See Admin overview. |
| Team | A group of users. A team controls which AI models its users can access. See Teams. |
| Role | What a user may do in Zentre AI: Super Admin, Admin, Member or Billing Owner. See Roles and permissions. |
Content
| Term | Meaning |
|---|
| Knowledge | Your file store. The AI can use these files as context, so it answers from your own documents. See Knowledge. |
| Scope | Where a Knowledge file is kept and who can see it: Personal (only you), Organization (everyone in your organization) or Shared (files others shared with you). See Knowledge. |
| Agent | An assistant you build for a specific task, for example a research helper or a writing assistant. See Agents. |
| Connector | Links one of your existing tools, such as Google Calendar or Gmail, to Zentre AI through MCP, so the AI can work with it directly. See Connectors. |
| Term | Meaning |
|---|
| Auto mode | Zentre AI picks the model, the thinking budget and whether web search is available, for each message. It uses only models your team has access to. See Chat. |
| Web search | Lets a model search the web for current information. It is turned off in §203 mode. See Chat. |
Privacy and compliance
| Term | Meaning |
|---|
| §203 Professional Secrecy Mode | A separate working mode for professions bound by secrecy under Section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB). It keeps §203 content apart and offers only approved sovereign models. See §203 Professional Secrecy Mode. |
| Belehrung | The legal instruction every user must read and accept before using §203 mode for the first time. See §203 Professional Secrecy Mode. |
| PII | Personally identifiable information: personal data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers or IBANs. Administrators can turn on PII detection and masking. See Security. |
| Placeholder | What replaces personal data in a message before the model sees it, when PII masking is on. The answer you read shows the original values again. See Security. |