Glossary · 2026

The language, defined

Plain-language definitions for paid media finance ops. Written for the controller and the CMO at the same time — because both of them are in the room.

21 terms

A

Active mode

The platform moves money under policy.

An opt-in operating mode in which ADmetric executes funding, reallocation and corrective actions on your behalf within board-approved guardrails. Every action is reversible, logged and attributable.

See also: Monitoring mode · Guardrail

Advertising treasury

The financial layer above ad platforms.

The discipline of planning, pacing, reconciling, funding and auditing paid media spend as a treasury function rather than a marketing one. The category ADmetric is built to serve.

See also: Pacing · Reconciliation

Audit trail

An immutable record of every change.

A tamper-evident sequence of events showing who changed what, when, why and with what authority. Required for SOC 2 and for any money-moving decision in the platform.

See also: Guardrail · Decision log

C

Counterparty ceiling

Maximum exposure to a single bank or processor.

A board-approved cap on the share of managed cash that may sit with one counterparty, sized to credit rating, deposit insurance and operational concentration risk.

See also: Treasury policy

D

Decision log

Material decisions, on the record.

A standing record of every material treasury, risk or product decision, including rationale, proposer, forum, outcome and the rule that would reverse it.

See also: Audit trail

F

FX corridor

A managed currency conversion path.

A pre-agreed conversion route between two currencies that replaces platform-native FX at materially better rates. Sized to projected outflow and rolled monthly.

See also: Leakage · Hedging book

G

Guardrail

A policy enforced in code.

A pre-committed rule that constrains automated action — for example, throttle thresholds, anomaly windows, dual-approval ceilings. Enforced at the decision boundary, not after the fact.

See also: Policy-as-code · Active mode

H

Headroom

Spend still available before a cap binds.

The euro distance between current pacing and the daily, weekly or monthly cap. Updated continuously; the leading indicator of an imminent overspend.

See also: Pacing

Hedging book

Forward cover on currency exposure.

The portfolio of forward contracts that locks in conversion rates for projected platform billing in foreign currencies. Coverage bands are board-approved.

See also: FX corridor · Treasury policy

I

Idle cash

Operating-account balance earning nothing.

Funds held in zero-yield accounts beyond what daily operational headroom requires. Treasury policy sweeps the excess into laddered instruments.

See also: Treasury policy

L

Leakage

Avoidable cost that nobody owns.

Money lost to FX margins, pacing variance, idle cash, platform mis-billing and unrecovered credits — quantified, then reduced. Reportable to the GL.

See also: Reconciliation · FX corridor

M

MAPE

Mean absolute percentage error.

The standard accuracy metric for pacing forecasts. We measure 28-day MAPE on end-of-period landing; sub-3% is a leading indicator of a clean close.

See also: Pacing

Monitoring mode

The platform watches and recommends.

The default operating mode. ADmetric measures, forecasts, alerts and recommends; humans execute. Required entry mode for new workspaces.

See also: Active mode

P

Pacing

Steering spend to plan over time.

The continuous comparison of actual cumulative spend against planned spend at the same point in the period, with forecast landing and the actions required to hit the plan.

See also: Headroom · MAPE

Period close

The monthly book-close cycle.

The structured process of reconciling, classifying, attesting and signing off a period’s paid media spend so it can be posted to the GL and surfaced in management reporting.

See also: Reconciliation

Policy-as-code

Rules expressed as enforceable code.

The pattern of writing approval ceilings, throttles and exceptions as machine-evaluable policies rather than wiki pages. Enables consistent enforcement and auditable history.

See also: Guardrail

R

Reconciliation

Three-way match across platform, treasury and GL.

The process of confirming, at the cent, that what the platform invoiced, the treasury paid and the GL posted are the same number — and explaining any difference.

See also: Audit trail · Period close

Reversal rule

The condition that undoes a decision.

A pre-agreed trigger that reverts a material decision automatically or returns it to its approving forum. Recorded with the decision itself.

See also: Decision log

S

Sweep

Automated movement of idle cash.

Scheduled or threshold-driven transfer of excess operating-account balance into laddered yield-bearing instruments while preserving daily liquidity coverage.

See also: Idle cash · Treasury policy

T

Treasury policy

The investment policy statement.

The board-approved document defining allocation bands, counterparty ceilings, permitted instruments, duration caps and FX coverage rules for the treasury book.

See also: Counterparty ceiling · Hedging book

W

Workspace

A scoped tenant of the platform.

The unit of isolation for data, policy, integrations and RBAC. A single legal entity, or a single client engagement at an agency.

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