Plain-language glossary
Definitions used across Fit Check, checkout, Client Console, issued packages, and verification.
- Client review
- A client’s request for security, privacy, procurement, AI, operational, or other supplier information.
- Security questionnaire
- A set of security questions a client asks a supplier to answer.
- Procurement review
- A client’s vendor, commercial, privacy, security, and operational review before or during purchasing.
- RFP / RFI
- A request for proposal or information. Buyer Review Pack covers only an eligible request or section within its Fit limits.
- Client request
- The actual questionnaire, RFP section, procurement document, or portal export to be answered.
- Source record
- A file your organization is authorized to use as evidence for the current review.
- Client-forwardable evidence
- A source record explicitly authorized for inclusion in the final client package.
- Internal-only evidence
- A source record excluded from the client package that cannot support an AttestLayer-supported client-facing statement.
- Review slot
- Capacity for one separately scoped eligible client request.
- Same-request rerun
- Another generation for the same request reference and scope during the order window.
- Requirement ID
- The identifier that keeps a client question linked to its original order and location.
- Source locator
- The exact page, row, paragraph, section, or native record location supporting a statement.
- Manifest
- An inventory of the files, roles, sizes, and hashes in an issued package.
- Signed receipt
- A signed record binding AttestLayer’s issuance to the exact package manifest.
- Verifier
- A tool that checks package hashes and receipt validity against applicable issuer-key material.
- DPA
- The Data Processing Addendum describing direct-client data-processing terms.
- Subprocessor
- A disclosed provider that processes data for a defined part of the service.
- Fit Check
- The free automated scope and file-eligibility check performed before purchase. It does not predict evidence coverage or client acceptance.
- Supported
- An approved record states the answer; the citation shows where.
- Customer confirmation required
- The records point to an answer but a detail is missing, out of date or contradictory; you confirm it.
- Not supported by submitted records
- No record states it; nothing is filled in.
- Final file 1
- Each answered row is marked from records (with its citation) or written by your organization (no citation).
- Final file 2
- Rows you didn't approve are left blank, exactly as your client sent them. Hidden, retired and header rows are never touched.