Glossary
Common terms across CIM and how we use them. We've tried to match construction-industry usage, but a few terms are CIM-specific.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gate | A bundle of checks that runs together. See Concepts. |
| Check | A single question the AI asks of your documents. |
| Finding | A flagged item — something the AI thinks is worth your attention. |
| Register | The unified list of all findings + any manual items you've added. |
| Change | A difference between two revisions of the same drawing. Lives in the Change Register. |
| Template | A reusable bundle of checks you can apply across projects. Org-level or project-level. |
| Discipline | Architectural, Structural, Hydraulic, Electrical, etc. CIM uses this to filter and group. |
| Health check | A gate that validates your document set before you run real reviews. |
| Citation | The drawing/page reference the AI used to support a finding. Always click through to verify. |
| Hallucination | When the AI flags something incorrectly. Roughly 1 in 4 findings will be a false positive — always verify. |
| Bounding box | A drawn region the AI highlights on a drawing. Used in detection and markup tools. |
| Archive | Hides a finding from the active register without deleting it. Archived findings can be restored. |