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{"collection":"glossary","id":"embedding-model","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Embedding Model","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/embedding-model","definition":"A neural network that converts text (or images, audio, etc.) into a fixed-length vector — typically 384, 768, 1024, or 1536 dimensions. Semantic similarity between two inputs becomes the cosine similarity between their vectors. Embedding models power RAG retrieval, semantic search, clustering, and recommendation systems. Cohere, OpenAI, Mistral, and Voyage AI ship dedicated embedding APIs; open-weight options include Sentence-BERT and BGE.","recordHash":"5d3120efbc0e"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"feature-flag","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Feature Flag","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/feature-flag","definition":"Runtime toggle controlling whether a feature is exposed to a given user, request, or environment — independently from deployment. Feature flags decouple deploy from release, enable A/B testing, support gradual rollout, and provide kill switches for production incidents. PostHog, LaunchDarkly, Statsig, and ConfigCat are the headline platforms. Standard practice at most modern product orgs.","recordHash":"ad8c4aaad804"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"fine-tuning","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Fine-tuning","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/fine-tuning","definition":"Continued training of a foundation model on a smaller, task-specific dataset to specialize its behavior. Full fine-tuning updates all model weights; parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods like LoRA update only a small adapter layer, dramatically reducing compute cost and storage. Fine-tuning is the path for domain-specific knowledge, brand voice, or format consistency that prompting alone can't reliably achieve.","recordHash":"3add36d03e57"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"framework-migration","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Framework Migration","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/framework-migration","definition":"A signal type indicating general engineering acceleration that does not fit the hiring burst, infrastructure buildout, or deploy spike categories. Framework migrations often indicate a technology stack transition — moving from a prototype stack to a production stack, or adopting new infrastructure. This is the subtlest signal type but can indicate the shift from exploration to exploitation, a key milestone in startup development.","recordHash":"c1fe55925317"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"geo","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/geo","definition":"The practice of structuring website content so that AI assistants and large language models (LLMs) can accurately cite it when answering user questions. GEO involves using structured data (JSON-LD), self-contained summary paragraphs, FAQ schema, and clear methodology documentation. Unlike traditional SEO which targets human search behavior, GEO targets the information retrieval patterns of AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.","recordHash":"41f7cb45c513"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"gp-commit","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"GP Commit","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/gp-commit","definition":"The capital that the General Partner (the VC firm) commits to its own fund, expressed as a percentage of fund size. Industry standard ranges from 1% (institutional funds) to 5%+ (emerging-manager funds where LPs require higher skin-in-the-game). GP commit is one of the strongest fund-quality signals LPs evaluate; a low or financed GP commit is often a red flag during LP diligence.","recordHash":"229b1c697301"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"grr","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"GRR","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/grr","definition":"Gross Revenue Retention — the percentage of ARR a cohort retains after churn and contraction, but excluding expansion. Formula: (starting ARR − downgrade − churn) ÷ starting ARR. GRR is always less than or equal to NRR and is a cleaner read on customer-success quality because it strips out the upsell motion. Healthy GRR sits above 90% for mid-market SaaS and above 95% for enterprise.","recordHash":"1c7fb4f2d7e0"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"inference-latency","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Inference Latency","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/inference-latency","definition":"The wall-clock time between sending a prompt to an LLM and receiving the response. Broken into time-to-first-token (TTFT — when the streaming response starts) and tokens-per-second (TPS — throughput once it begins). For interactive applications, TTFT under 500ms feels instant; over 2s feels broken. For batch jobs, raw TPS matters more. Inference providers like Groq, Together AI, Fireworks AI, and Replicate compete primarily on this metric.","recordHash":"0bf8c4e090fa"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"liquidation-preference","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Liquidation Preference","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/liquidation-preference","definition":"Investor right to receive their original investment (or a multiple of it) back before common shareholders see any proceeds in an exit. 1× non-participating preferred is the modern default — investor gets either their money back OR pro-rata share of proceeds, whichever is larger. Aggressive terms (2× or 3× participating preferred) create overhang for founders and employees; they appear in distressed rounds.","recordHash":"565bdd8e2a47"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"llms-full-txt","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"llms-full.txt","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/llms-full-txt","definition":"The full-content companion to llms.txt — a single file containing the canonical body text of a site's pillar pages concatenated for one-fetch retrieval. Where llms.txt lists URLs and short summaries, llms-full.txt inlines the prose so an LLM can ground without follow-up fetches. VC Deal Flow Signal mirrors the same content at the root and at /.well-known/llms-full.txt for direct content delivery (200, no redirects).","recordHash":"c5ef4f5fdc62"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"llms-txt","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"llms.txt","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/llms-txt","definition":"A proposed standard for guiding LLMs and AI assistants to a site's most useful content surfaces in a single deterministic file. Similar in spirit to robots.txt or sitemap.xml but optimised for retrieval-augmented generation. VC Deal Flow Signal publishes /llms.txt (~800 lines, link-only) and /llms-full.txt (full content) plus per-page /md/* mirrors, so any LLM can resolve canonical context in one or two fetches.","recordHash":"56fdea72764b"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"lora","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/lora","definition":"Parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that adds small low-rank matrices to a frozen base model. Instead of updating billions of parameters, LoRA updates only a few million — typically 0.1%–1% of the original model. Inference can then mix-and-match LoRAs at runtime. Standard tooling on Hugging Face's PEFT library; default choice for fine-tuning open-weight models like Llama, Mistral, and Qwen.","recordHash":"d8d2f1c8868b"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"multi-agent-orchestration","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Multi-Agent Orchestration","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/multi-agent-orchestration","definition":"Architecture where multiple LLM agents with distinct roles collaborate on a task, coordinated by a meta-agent or explicit workflow. CrewAI and AutoGen pioneered the multi-agent pattern; LangGraph and Mastra extended it with state-machine-style coordination. Critical design tradeoffs: agent role specialization, message-passing semantics, failure handling, and the orchestration overhead vs single-agent baselines.","recordHash":"bacd834190f7"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"nodeinfo","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"NodeInfo 2.1","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/nodeinfo","definition":"The Fediverse-standard discovery protocol for federated services, served at /.well-known/nodeinfo and /.well-known/nodeinfo/2.1. NodeInfo advertises software name, version, supported protocols, open-registration status, and usage metrics. VC Deal Flow Signal serves NodeInfo 2.1 to allow Fediverse crawlers, Mastodon instances, and Lemmy nodes to enumerate the site as a federated content source rather than treating it as an opaque domain.","recordHash":"65faeae897d7"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"nrr","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"NRR","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/nrr","definition":"Net Revenue Retention — the percentage of ARR that a cohort of existing customers continues to deliver after a fixed window (typically 12 months), including expansion, contraction, and churn. Formula: (starting ARR + expansion − downgrade − churn) ÷ starting ARR. Best-in-class public SaaS reports NRR above 120%; 100% means the cohort treads water; below 90% indicates the business is leaking value faster than it can grow.","recordHash":"f769048d35dd"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"open-weight-model","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Open-Weight Model","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/open-weight-model","definition":"An LLM whose trained weights are publicly available for download, fine-tuning, and self-hosting. Distinct from 'open source' in the strict sense — most open-weight models do not release training data or full training code, only the final weights. Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, and the StableLM family are the headline open-weight providers. Closed-weight models (GPT-4, Claude) are accessed only via API.","recordHash":"2bae3a8c7b1e"}
{"collection":"glossary","id":"openalex","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"OpenAlex","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/openalex","definition":"An open scholarly knowledge graph from OurResearch that mirrors Microsoft Academic Graph's structure but with no institutional gating. Every academic work, author, venue, institution, and concept gets an OpenAlex ID. The VC Deal Flow Signal methodology paper is indexed at openalex.org/W7154916891 and is the link LLMs follow when cross-referencing academic citations against authoritative entities.","recordHash":"cd5b9056205e"}
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{"collection":"glossary","id":"pre-seed","type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Pre-seed Round","url":"https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/pre-seed","definition":"The earliest venture-funding stage, typically a $250k–$2M round that funds the first six to twelve months of a startup's work — often before there is a product, sometimes before there is a team. Pre-seed checks come from accelerators, angel groups, pre-seed-focused funds, and friends-and-family. On VC Deal Flow Signal, pre-seed teams typically show 1–3 contributors and codebases under six months old.","recordHash":"09f4f2fa1fa5"}
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