Vocabulary
The locked terms that govern how we think about Hearth. Hover for definition; click for the full doc.
Philosophy
3 termsERMA
The design lens — Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, Accomplishment. Joy is the outcome, not a pillar.
Hearth
The platform. Where complex work becomes human again. The place humans gather around meaningful work.
Joy
The outcome that emerges from ERMA conditions. Never a feature, screen, metric, or badge.
Architecture
3 termsConcern Management
The smallest concern shape that still supports lifecycle, context, visible next movements, and bounded delegation.
Lifecycle
The spine of a concern: its states and possible movements. Not a railway of tasks.
Orbit
The architectural metaphor. The concern is the centre; everything else orbits around it.
Experience
2 termsAI Convention
4 termsConfidence Signal
An honest signal of how reliably Whisper can help with a specific bounded job. Not a permission slip and not a global AI score.
Translucent Assistance
Assistance that sits lightly over the work: visible enough to help, quiet enough to ignore, never replacing the human.
Whisper
Quiet AI at the shoulder; never on a megaphone. Suggest, never command. Fade when not needed.
Whisper Charter
The authority boundary for Whisper: what it may do unaided, what it may do only when explicitly delegated, and what must always stay human.