Authority Engineering Glossary
Complete terminology reference for Authority Engineering Optimization (AEO), Structural Authority Score (SAS), and the 411bz.ai platform. 23 terms defined.
AEO (Authority Engineering Optimization)
The discipline of structuring businesses, content, and entities so AI systems can reliably extract, interpret, and cite them. AEO replaces keyword-based SEO with semantic clarity, structured data depth, service definition precision, and cross-domain authority signals. Created by Robert Minchak and 411bz.ai.
AGE (Approval-Gated Escalation)
A governance primitive that requires explicit human approval before high-impact automated actions execute. When CWAR routes an action to AGE, the system pauses and waits for human confirmation. No destructive or irreversible action bypasses AGE.
CAD (Crawl Accessibility)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures how easily AI crawlers can access and parse content. Evaluates response time, server-side rendering, robots.txt permissions, and content availability. Fast SSR pages score higher because AI crawlers have limited time budgets per request.
CCH (Consistency Coherence)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures internal consistency across the site. Evaluates naming coherence, entity definition alignment, and structural pattern uniformity. Inconsistent business names, contradictory descriptions, or mixed terminology reduce CCH.
CDS (Cross-Domain Authority)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures external authority reinforcement signals. Evaluates sameAs links to authoritative platforms (LinkedIn, GitHub), entity consistency across domains, and cross-domain identity verification.
Citation Probability
The likelihood that an AI system will reference a specific business when answering a relevant query. Influenced by structural authority signals: entity clarity, schema depth, service definition, FAQ coverage, and cross-domain consistency. Higher SAS correlates with higher citation probability.
CPR (Context-Persistence and Replay)
A governance primitive that maintains full audit trails for every automated decision. CPR stores execution context so any decision can be replayed, inspected, and verified. Enables complete auditability of the automation pipeline.
CWAR (Confidence-Weighted Action Routing)
A governance primitive that evaluates the confidence level and potential impact of every automated action before execution. Actions above the confidence threshold proceed automatically. Actions below the threshold are escalated through AGE for human approval.
Determinism Guard
A verification mechanism that runs the scoring engine twice with identical input and compares SHA-256 hashes of the outputs. If hashes differ, a non-determinism error is flagged. Uses stable JSON serialization with sorted keys to prevent object-order variance.
EAS (Economic Authority Score)
The secondary metric in the dual-layer authority model. A lagging indicator that measures citation persistence, brand gravity, cross-platform reinforcement, volatility stability, and authority capital accumulation. EAS changes over months, not days. Features nonlinear decay and momentum acceleration.
EIC (Entity Identity Clarity)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures whether AI can confidently identify who the business is. Evaluates Organization schema presence, consistent naming, sameAs links, and entity disambiguation signals.
FIC (FAQ Intent Coverage)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures structured question-answer content availability. Evaluates FAQPage schema presence, question count, topic breadth, and answer substance. Direct extraction targets for AI question-answering systems.
Probe Observatory
A curated dataset of 156+ probe sites across 8 CMS types and multiple verticals used for SAS engine calibration. Includes adversarial probes designed to stress schema inflation, FAQ spam, headless rendering, floor compression, and enterprise complexity.
SAS (Structural Authority Score)
The primary metric in the dual-layer authority model. A deterministic, additive metric measuring AI citation readiness across 8 dimensions: EIC, SDD, SSI, SCD, CDS, FIC, CAD, CCH. Pure additive weighted model with no nonlinear scaling. Verified by SHA-256 hash comparison.
SCD (Service Clarity Depth)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures how clearly services are defined and structured. Evaluates service page existence, deliverable descriptions, outcome definitions, measurement criteria, and Service schema markup.
SDD (Structured Data Density)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures the depth and breadth of machine-readable schema markup. Evaluates JSON-LD variety, @graph cross-referencing, schema type count, and structured data completeness. Typically the highest-weighted dimension.
Shadow Mode
A validation mode where new scoring models run in parallel with production without affecting live output. Comparator engines measure delta distributions between shadow and production scores. Used during migration to ensure no silent regression.
SSI (Semantic Structure Integrity)
One of the 8 SAS dimensions. Measures whether content follows a parseable semantic hierarchy. Evaluates H1-H6 heading structure, proper nesting, list usage, definition blocks, and absence of heading level skips.