Glossary

Terms you'll hear at Yoonet

152 terms across 12 categories. Search, filter, or scroll. If you hear something that's not here, add it as a question — it probably belongs on this page.

Yoonet · 7

Clinic Admin

Productised admin / VA service for allied health clinics — mainly podiatry. Founder-led day-to-day by Ben.

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Clinic Sites

Sibling brand to Clinic Admin: websites, content, and reporting for clinics. Same delivery team wearing a different brand hat.

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EA Flow

(eaflow, eaflow.ai)

Deprioritised as of April 2026. Not a live product or active track.

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Outer Edge

(Outer Edge AI)

The NZ consultancy and advisory brand. The strategic face of Ben's work in the New Zealand market.

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Yoonet

Our parent brand. Back-office services for allied health clinics and small businesses in AU/NZ.

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Yoonet Websites

Same underlying product as Clinic Sites, different brand, for non-clinical clients.

YooSEO

Our internal SEO dashboard. Not an offering — it's the tool we use to deliver the SEO retainer.

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Offerings · 7

Compliance VA

Virtual assistant outsourcing for back-office compliance work.

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Consultancy

Strategic advisory delivered under Outer Edge.

Content and copywriting

Blog posts, social copy, web copy, email comms.

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EA management

Executive assistant services powered by EA Flow.

Paid media

Google Ads and Meta Ads management for clients.

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SEO retainer

Ongoing search engine optimisation work. Powered by YooSEO.

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WaaS

(Website as a Service)

Website as a Service. Monthly retainer: site build + hosting + ongoing edits.

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Platforms · 14

1Password

Yoonet's shared credential manager. Every client credential lives here — not in Obsidian, not in Slack, not in chat.

Astro

Our preferred static site framework. Fast, SEO-friendly. Masterton's new site is Astro.

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Calendly

Booking tool used for internal and client scheduling.

Cliniko

The practice-management system most allied health clients run on. We configure and support it.

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Google Business Profile

(GBP)

Client's Google listing. We manage it as part of local SEO.

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Google Workspace

Google's business suite (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Calendar) on a business domain.

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Heidi AI

AI medical scribe used by some of our podiatry clients.

Hive

A client-operated coaching/reporting platform. Adam & Ali Philps use it for Masterton debtors work.

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HotDoc

Australia's largest patient-engagement and booking platform. 21,000+ practitioners, 9M+ patients.

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Nookal

Practice-management software (Brisbane-developed). Direct competitor to Cliniko.

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Practice Ignition

Proposal and engagement-letter tool. Nicole operates this.

Sanity

(Sanity Studio, Sanity CMS)

The CMS that sits behind Astro sites. When someone says 'Editor' they almost always mean Sanity Studio.

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Webflow

Site platform we touch on legacy builds but don't prefer.

WordPress

Legacy CMS some clients still run on. Most Clinic Sites migrations are moving off WordPress to Astro.

Disciplines · 6

Client communications

(Client comms)

The emails, the check-ins, the small follow-ups that make a client feel seen.

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CMS editing

Editing content in Sanity Studio, WordPress admin, or Webflow editor. The 'Editor' role.

Compliance admin

Allied health back-office. Covers DVA, Bupa, Medicare, ACC.

Data and reporting

YooSEO, GA4, Looker dashboards. Monthly client reporting.

Design and build

Site production — design, dev, Sanity schema, launch.

SEO

(Search Engine Optimisation)

On-page, technical, local, and reporting work to improve organic search visibility.

Allied health · 22

ACC

(Accident Compensation Corporation)

New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation. Covers treatment for injury.

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ADF

(Australian Defence Force)

Three separate health streams: serving members (ADFHSC via Bupa), veterans (DVA), and dependants (ADF Family Health Program).

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AHPRA

(Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency)

Registers Australian health practitioners via 15 National Boards (Podiatry, Physio, OT, etc.). 'Podiatrist' and 'physiotherapist' are protected titles.

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Allied Admin Certification

Our internal training library. 56–59 hours. Reference library, not homework.

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Australian Privacy Principles

(APP, Privacy Act 1988)

13 principles under Australia's Privacy Act 1988. Covers all health service providers regardless of turnover.

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Bulk billing

Patient pays $0, clinic bills Medicare directly.

Bupa

Australian health insurer. Private billing codes, claim forms.

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D904

A common DVA item number in podiatry.

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Data segregation

Keeping one client's data logically (and sometimes physically) separate from another's. A direct APP 11 obligation.

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DVA

(Department of Veterans' Affairs)

Australia's Department of Veterans' Affairs. Funds veterans' healthcare.

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Healthpoint

NZ's main directory of healthcare providers, services, and contact details. Local SEO for NZ clinics requires Healthpoint listing consistency with the website's NAP.

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HICAPS

On-the-spot private health claim terminal used in AU allied health clinics. Equivalent to Southern Cross Easy Claim in NZ.

HPCA Act 2003

(Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act)

NZ framework registering health professionals through bodies like the Podiatrists Board of New Zealand. NZ counterpart to AHPRA.

Item number

Billing code for a specific service under Medicare, DVA, Bupa, or ACC.

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Medicare

Australia's public health system. Item numbers, bulk billing.

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Medicare GPCCMP

(GPCCMP, GP Chronic Condition Management Plan)

Replaced GPMP/TCA on 1 July 2025. Up to 5 allied-health sessions per calendar year (10 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients); referral valid 18 months.

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NDB

(Notifiable Data Breaches)

The AU scheme under the Privacy Act since Feb 2018. Notify affected individuals + OAIC when a breach is likely to cause serious harm. Assessment window: 30 days from suspicion.

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NDIS

(National Disability Insurance Scheme)

Commonwealth scheme funding supports for Australians with permanent significant disability.

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OAIC

(Office of the Australian Information Commissioner)

AU regulator running the NDB scheme and issuing APP guidelines. Health has been the most-breached sector for 6 consecutive years.

Optimum Health Solutions breach

(Rhysida OHS breach)

August 2023 ransomware leak by the Rhysida group: 186 GB and 108,000+ files of employee/patient data including Veteran File Numbers and Medicare numbers. Sometimes misremembered internally as 'Optimise Health'.

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Privacy Act 2020

(NZ Privacy Act 2020)

NZ's privacy law, replacing the 1993 Act. Mandatory breach notification to the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals for serious breaches.

Southern Cross Easy Claim

NZ's main private health insurer's on-the-spot claiming workflow. Equivalent to HICAPS in Australia.

Web stack · 9

Clerk

Hosted authentication — sign-in, social login, MFA, sessions, user-management UI.

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GitHub

Where code lives. Central to review (PRs), automation (Actions), and collaboration.

Neon

Serverless Postgres that auto-scales and can pause when idle. Alternative to Supabase when only a Postgres database is needed.

Next.js

React-based framework by Vercel. Handles routing, server-side rendering, API routes, image optimisation.

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React

JavaScript library by Meta for building UIs as components. Underlies Next.js. You rarely see it used directly.

Supabase

Open-source 'Firebase alternative' — managed Postgres plus auth, storage, realtime, edge functions.

Tailwind CSS

Utility-first CSS framework. Styling happens by composing small class names rather than separate CSS files.

TypeScript

JavaScript with static types. Default language for Yoonet frontend code.

Vercel

Hosting platform by the makers of Next.js. Auto-builds from GitHub, generates a preview URL per PR, runs a global CDN.

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Dev lifecycle · 15

Branch

A parallel copy of the repo where work happens without touching the live version. `main` is the production branch.

CI/CD

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment. Automation that runs tests on every push and deploys on merge. Vercel's GitHub integration is Yoonet's CI/CD.

Commit

A saved snapshot of changes with a message. Local until pushed.

Deploy

(Deployment)

Build the site and publish it so real users can see it.

Diff

The line-by-line difference between file versions. Green added, red removed.

Environment variables

(env vars)

Named configuration values (API keys, database URLs) loaded at runtime. Set in the Vercel dashboard, never committed.

Main branch

The canonical, production-tracking branch. Historically called `master`; modern convention is `main`.

Merge

Accepting a PR. The branch's commits become part of `main`.

PR

(Pull Request)

A GitHub proposal to merge a branch into another (usually `main`). Where review and CI checks happen.

Preview deployment

A temporary Vercel URL built automatically for every non-main branch. Clickable before merge. Your safety net.

Production

The live environment at the real domain. Triggered by merging to `main`.

Push

Upload local commits to GitHub.

Repo

(Repository)

A project's source folder on GitHub. One project = one repo.

Rollback

Reverting production to a previous deployment. Vercel's Instant Rollback does this in seconds.

Staging

A pre-production environment mirroring production for final checks. On Vercel, every preview URL is effectively per-branch staging.

SEO · 25

AI Overviews

(SGE)

Google's AI-generated answers at the top of search results. Previously called SGE.

Alt text

Text description of an image for screen readers and when the image fails to load. Required for accessibility; helps SEO.

Backlink

A link from another website to yours. Quality matters more than quantity.

Canonical URL

Tells Google the official version of a page when duplicates exist.

CLS

Cumulative Layout Shift. How much the page jumps around while loading.

CWV

(Core Web Vitals)

Google's page-speed and UX signals. Three metrics: LCP, INP, CLS.

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DA

(Domain Authority)

A 0–100 Moz proprietary score. Not a Google metric. Google does not endorse or use DA.

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E-E-A-T

Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness.

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GA4

(Google Analytics 4)

Google's current analytics product. Tracks site traffic and events.

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GEO

(Generative Engine Optimization)

SEO for AI search — getting cited in AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Perplexity.

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GSC

(Google Search Console, Search Console)

Google's tool for monitoring how a site appears in search.

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Heading hierarchy

(H1 H2 H3)

The document outline. One `<h1>` per page, then `<h2>` for sections, `<h3>` beneath. Affects accessibility and SEO.

INP

Interaction to Next Paint. How fast the page responds to user input.

Keyword

A search term users might type. 'Podiatrist Masterton' is a primary keyword for MFC.

LCP

Largest Contentful Paint. How fast the biggest visible element loads.

llms.txt

A file that tells AI crawlers what a site is about. Similar to robots.txt but for LLMs.

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Local SEO

Optimising for 'near me' searches. NAP consistency, GBP, local citations, reviews, locally relevant schema.

Map pack

(Local pack)

The three local business listings Google shows with a map for local queries.

Meta description

The ~150-character summary under a page's title in search results. Doesn't directly rank but affects click-through.

NAP consistency

(Name Address Phone)

Name, Address, Phone — identical across website, GBP, Healthpoint, Facebook, directories. Inconsistency hurts local rankings.

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Open Graph

(og tags)

`<meta property="og:*">` tags controlling how a page previews on Facebook, LinkedIn. Twitter has its own `twitter:card` equivalents.

robots.txt

File telling crawlers what they can and can't access. Lives at `/robots.txt`.

Schema

(Structured data, JSON-LD)

Machine-readable tags on a page that help Google and AI understand the content.

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Sitemap

(sitemap.xml)

A list of URLs for crawlers. Lives at `/sitemap.xml`, referenced in `robots.txt`.

Title tag

The page's headline in the browser tab and the blue link in Google. ~60 characters.

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Artifact

On claude.ai, a self-contained piece of content Claude produces in a side panel — document, code, chart, interactive app.

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Claude Code

Terminal-based Claude agent that sits in a project folder, reads and edits files, runs commands, commits to git, opens PRs.

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Claude Projects

The claude.ai feature bundling chats, uploaded knowledge, and custom instructions into one workspace.

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Claude Skill

(Skill)

A packaged capability — a folder containing a `SKILL.md` plus supporting scripts — that Claude loads on demand for specific tasks.

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CLAUDE.md

A Markdown file at the root of a project folder that Claude Code reads at the start of every session. The project's standing orders.

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Context window

Claude's short-term memory for a conversation. When full, older content is summarised or dropped.

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Custom instructions

The pre-prompt attached to every chat in a Claude Project — role, tone, rules, what 'done' looks like.

Hallucination

When Claude generates confident but wrong output — fake citation, invented statistic, made-up quote.

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MCP

(Model Context Protocol)

An open Anthropic standard for plugging Claude into external tools (Google Drive, Slack, Figma, Jira, Notion, databases).

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Project knowledge

The reference files attached to a Claude Project, shared across every chat in it.

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Prompt

What you type to Claude. A good prompt includes what you want, why, who for, constraints, and what good looks like.

Prompt caching

Efficiency feature — Claude stores the already-processed part of a prompt so it doesn't reprocess every turn.

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Slash command

A saved, named prompt or workflow in Claude Code, invoked by typing `/name`. Stored as a Markdown file in `.claude/commands/`.

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Subagent

In Claude Code, a specialised helper running in its own context window, returning only a summary to the main session.

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System prompt

Instructions given to Claude before a conversation starts, setting role, tone, rules.

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Tool use

Claude's ability to do things beyond generating text — web search, file read, code execution, external API call, document edit.

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Internal · 13

ai@ account

Yoonet's shared Claude workspace. Has a Project for research with the vault loaded.

Balanga

Our delivery team is in Balanga, Philippines. Not Manila. Never Manila.

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CEO Brief

The morning summary Ben reads — pulled together by EA Flow from overnight Gmail, Slack, Calendar.

Claude

(ai@)

Our AI assistant. Drafts, summaries, never sends to clients.

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Frontmatter

A YAML block at the top of a Markdown file between `---` fences, containing metadata (title, status, owner, date, related).

Granola

Meeting recorder + transcript tool. Feeds into EA Flow and vault notes.

hi@yoonet.io

Shared team inbox. Cassey, Gaia and others all keep an eye on it. Used for client-facing comms.

Markdown

(.md)

A simple text format using `#` for headings, `**bold**`, `[link](url)`. Renders to HTML.

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Obsidian

Ben's personal knowledge vault app. Separate from the Yura app.

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PROP-NNNN

Our proposal numbering scheme. e.g. #PROP-0096 is the Masterton proposal.

Slack

Our nervous system. Most internal comms happen here.

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Wiki link

([[double bracket]])

Obsidian's `[[Page Name]]` syntax linking to another note. The Yura app resolves these to `/w/slug` URLs.

YAML

A human-readable config format using indentation and `key: value` pairs. Used for frontmatter, GitHub Actions config, Docker Compose.

Client-specific · 5

CLNC

(Cold Laser Nail Clinic)

One of Adam Philps's satellite services. Patients travel from across NZ for it.

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MSTNFOOT

Shorthand for Masterton Foot Clinic — the main site property.

Petherton

(Petherton Group)

Client group. Includes Char House (not Chai House — Granola mishears it).

WINC

(Wairarapa Ingrown Nail Clinic, Ingrown Toenail Clinic)

Another satellite of Masterton Foot Clinic. Nina is the gatekeeper on access.

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XTern AFO

A virtual orthotic device Adam Philps has been prescribing remotely.

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Process · 13

Account owner

The senior person who owns the client relationship. Ben on Masterton.

Bridge role

How Ben describes Yura's role — the bridge between sales (Nicole) and delivery (Gaia, Cassey, the webbies).

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Citation

The vault notes a draft email drew from. Every AI-generated client comms must cite its sources.

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Daily note

Yura's end-of-day three-line reflection. What I learned / what got me stuck / what I want to ask.

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Discovery

Stage 1 of the onboarding journey. A ~60-minute Zoom to figure out what the client actually needs.

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EA

(Executive Assistant)

Nicole is Ben's EA. Powered by EA Flow.

Gatekeeper

The filter function Yura runs for Gaia — triaging inbound, deciding what reaches her, running the pre-production that polishes what does.

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Handover

Moving a client from delivery (Gaia, Cassey) to ongoing comms (Nicole, then Yura).

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Kickoff

Stage 3 of the onboarding journey. Access chases — GA, GSC, Cliniko, Canva, image assets.

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PM

(Project Manager)

Owns delivery on a build. Cassey and Gaia on Masterton.

Shadow session

When Yura sits alongside Nicole or Gaia on a live client thread without replying herself. Pure observation.

The webbies

Informal name for Yoonet's web development team — Em, Ralph, Mau, and whoever else is coding at a given moment.

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VA

(Virtual Assistant)

Our Balanga-based delivery team. The umbrella term for many internal roles — never used to clients.