Glossary
The modern real estate operating glossary.
Clear definitions for the systems, workflows, metrics, and AI concepts shaping the modern real estate business.
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FRA Intelligence
The $25/month ongoing business-intelligence and second-brain layer.
Related: Second Brain, FRA Workforce, Activation
See Pricing →FRA Workforce
Supported AI agents, automation, human specialists, and work routed to the user's own team.
Related: FRA Intelligence, Pay As You Go, Activation
See Use Cases →Second Brain
The persistent business context FRA can build and reuse from supported connected signals, preferences, playbooks, relationships, and outcomes.
Related: FRA Intelligence, Opportunity
See How It Works →Activation
The user's decision to start a supported paid or included execution path.
Related: FRA Workforce, Pay As You Go
See Pricing →Pay As You Go
Workforce execution billed when activated rather than requiring every service to remain active every month.
Related: FRA Workforce, Activation
See Pricing →AEO
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making useful information easy for answer-driven search experiences and AI systems to understand, retrieve, and present.
For agents, this can involve clear identity information, useful expertise content, structured pages, consistent business details, and credible authority signals.
Related: AI Visibility, GEO, SEO
See AI Visibility →GEO
Generative Engine Optimization is a commonly used term for improving the clarity, authority, and retrievability of information that may be used by generative AI search experiences.
FRA should treat GEO as an extension of strong digital presence and content quality, not as a collection of gimmicks.
AI Visibility
The degree to which AI-assisted search and discovery systems can clearly understand and potentially surface a person or business based on available public signals.
Future Ready Score
A Future Ready Agent measurement designed to summarize readiness across relevant business categories such as lead conversion, CRM health, database health, listing marketing, AI visibility, automation, and technology utilization.
The exact methodology should be documented separately and evolve transparently.
CRM Health
The condition and usefulness of a customer relationship management system based on factors such as contact organization, activity, next actions, workflows, segmentation, and follow-up consistency.
Database Reactivation
A structured effort to re-engage past clients, old leads, sphere contacts, or other existing database segments that have not been meaningfully contacted recently.
Lead Conversion
The process of turning an inquiry or prospect into a meaningful next-stage outcome such as a conversation, appointment, signed client, or closed transaction.
Speed to Lead
The time between a new inquiry and the first meaningful response attempt.
Next Action
The specific future task, communication, or workflow step associated with a contact or opportunity.
Lead Leakage
Potential opportunities lost or stalled because of delayed response, weak follow-up, missing ownership, incorrect stages, or broken workflows.
Listing Marketing
The strategy and execution used to promote a property while also creating seller value, audience reach, brand visibility, content, and future business opportunities.
Reverse Prospecting
A strategy that uses available listing, buyer, agent, or market information to identify people who may have a relevant interest in a property or opportunity, subject to applicable platform rules and privacy requirements.
Tech Stack
The collection of software, services, systems, and integrations used to operate a business.
Technology Utilization
How effectively a business actually uses the capabilities of the technology it already pays for.
Workflow
A repeatable sequence of tasks, decisions, communications, or system actions used to complete a business process.
Automation
Technology that performs or triggers repeatable actions with reduced manual intervention.
Automation should be used where it improves consistency and leverage without removing necessary human judgment.
Agentic AI
AI systems designed to perform multi-step actions or workflows rather than only returning text responses to individual prompts.
Business Signal
A piece of data or observable activity that may indicate business health, opportunity, risk, intent, or a needed action.
Opportunity
An evidence-backed piece of work or business value FRA detects and recommends for attention or execution.
Related: Second Brain, Activation
See The Future Ready Scan →Progressive Permissions
A product approach where users connect systems or grant access incrementally, with a clear explanation of what each permission enables.
First-Party Data
Information collected directly through a business's own relationships, website, CRM, transactions, communications, or customer interactions.
Attribution
The process of connecting traffic, campaigns, content, or outreach to downstream actions such as scan starts, activations, appointments, or customers.
UTM Parameters
Tracking parameters added to URLs to identify traffic source, medium, campaign, creative, or other marketing context.
Structured Data
Machine-readable markup that helps search engines better understand the meaning and structure of a web page.