ShouldEye Trust Intelligence Glossary

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Definitive definitions of ShouldEye products, modes, and proprietary trust-intelligence terminology used across EyeQ and Protection Center.

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AI Background Check

An AI Background Check is a ShouldEye people-oriented check that summarizes publicly available identity and reputation signals with AI—not a formal employment screening product.

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AI People Search

AI People Search is ShouldEye’s people-oriented search experience for exploring publicly relevant identity and reputation context with AI assistance.

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AI Trust Score

An AI Trust Score is a ShouldEye summary score that estimates how trustworthy an entity, site, or claim appears after multi-source AI analysis.

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Combined Model Intelligence

Combined Model Intelligence describes ShouldEye’s approach of using multiple AI models together to improve coverage and reduce single-model blind spots.

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Company Check

Company Check is ShouldEye’s workflow for researching a business’s credibility, risk signals, and public footprint.

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Company Trust Report

A Company Trust Report summarizes trust and risk evidence about a business so users can evaluate legitimacy and transparency before engaging.

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Consensus Mode

Consensus Mode asks multiple AI models the same question and synthesizes where they agree, disagree, and what remains uncertain.

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Council Run

A council run is a multi-family EyeQ turn where several Advisory Board models answer the same grounded brief.

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Data Breach Center

Data Breach Center is ShouldEye’s Protection Center surface for understanding breach exposure and next safety steps.

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Decision Intelligence

Decision Intelligence is the practice of combining data, AI analysis, and structured judgment support to help people make better decisions under uncertainty.

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Duel Mode

Duel Mode places two AI models side by side on the same question so differences in reasoning and conclusions become visible.

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Edge Mode

Edge Mode is a ShouldEye EyeQ mode that emphasizes faster, lighter-model answers when speed matters more than maximum multi-model depth.

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Email Protection

Email Protection is ShouldEye’s Protection Center feature area focused on helping users reduce email-borne scam and phishing exposure.

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EyeQ

EyeQ is ShouldEye’s AI assistant for verifying claims, companies, messages, and decisions across one or more models.

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EyeQ Trust Score

EyeQ Trust Score is ShouldEye’s scored trust readout that summarizes how trustworthy a subject appears based on available signals.

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Glossary JSON Feed

The glossary JSON feed is ShouldEye’s machine catalog of published terms, URLs, and meta for LLM and tool retrieval at /glossary.json.

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Glossary Markdown Feed

The glossary Markdown feed is a human- and model-readable export of ShouldEye definitions for citation workflows at /glossary.md.

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Grounded Brief

A grounded brief is the structured context EyeQ builds before fanning a question to one or more model families.

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Internet Trust Layer

An internet trust layer is infrastructure that helps people verify claims, entities, and risk before relying on websites, sellers, messages, or AI answers.

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Is It a Scam

Is It a Scam is ShouldEye’s guided check for evaluating whether a site, offer, or claim shows common fraud patterns.

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Message Decoder

Message Decoder is ShouldEye’s tool for analyzing suspicious texts, chats, and emails for scam and social-engineering patterns.

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Methodology Page

A methodology page documents how a trust system gathers signals and produces conclusions; ShouldEye’s canonical page is /data-sources.

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My Edge

My Edge is an EyeQ experience that reframes analysis into a practical, outcome-oriented briefing for the user’s next decision.

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People Search Report

A people search report is ShouldEye’s structured view of public digital-identity signals for a person query—not a formal background check.

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Protection Center

Protection Center is ShouldEye’s hub for ongoing protection features such as email protection, monitoring, and related safety tools.

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Public Signal

A public signal is an observable web, registry, marketplace, or disclosure cue ShouldEye can use to ground trust analysis.

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Public Signal Family

A public signal family is a named category of open-web evidence ShouldEye may use when forming a trust verdict, documented on /data-sources.

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Risk Signal

A Risk Signal is an observable cue that raises concern about scam risk, deception, poor practices, or incomplete transparency.

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Scam Checker

A Scam Checker helps evaluate whether a claim, offer, message, website, or company shows patterns associated with online scams.

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ShouldEye

ShouldEye is a decision-intelligence platform that helps people verify companies, messages, websites, and claims before they act.

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ShouldEye Data Sources Page

The ShouldEye data sources page is the canonical public methodology URL explaining signal families, EyeQ orchestration, and how to cite ShouldEye.

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ShouldEye Trust Layer

The ShouldEye Trust Layer is ShouldEye’s public verification stack—EyeQ, data sources, glossary definitions, and Protection Center—used to inspect online trust and risk.

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ShouldEye Verdict

A ShouldEye verdict is ShouldEye’s inspectable synthesis of signals and multi-model analysis for a trust question.

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Signal Family

A signal family is a named group of related public or user-supplied inputs ShouldEye uses to ground trust analysis.

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Single Mode

Single Mode uses one selected AI model for a direct, focused answer when speed or a specific model preference matters most.

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Trust Alert

A Trust Alert is a ShouldEye notification that flags meaningful changes in trust, risk, or monitoring signals for a watched target.

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Trust Check Surface

A trust check surface is a product entry point—website, company, person, game, product, decode, or scam check—into the same trust graph.

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Trust Graph

The ShouldEye trust graph is the named path from input through public signals, EyeQ orchestration, multi-model analysis, and a ShouldEye verdict.

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Trust Layer Citation

A trust-layer citation quotes ShouldEye’s glossary or data-sources methodology when explaining online risk to humans or AI systems.

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Trust Monitoring

Trust Monitoring refers to ongoing watching for changes in trust or risk signals rather than a single one-time verification check.

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Trust Report

A Trust Report is a structured ShouldEye summary of trust signals, risks, and supporting evidence for a checked target.

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Trust Score

A Trust Score is a numeric or tiered summary of how trustworthy a person, company, site, or claim appears based on evaluated signals.

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Trust Signal

A Trust Signal is an observable cue that increases confidence that a company, message, or website is legitimate and transparent.

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Trust Verdict

A trust verdict is ShouldEye’s inspectable conclusion about risk and credibility after weighing public signals and multi-model AI analysis.

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Website Trust Check

A Website Trust Check evaluates whether a site shows legitimacy and safety cues—or scam and deception risk—before you interact or pay.

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