Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A line of business in Carolverse — a coherent area of what the estate DOES, with an owning agent, its own tracks of work, its own budget and its own profit-and-loss. Services are how money and accountability are divided: every unit of work belongs to one, and work that belongs to none is undeclared.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: System service
A Carolverse service is a line of BUSINESS; a system service is a long-running PROGRAM on the machine. Same word, unrelated meanings — this is the single most confusing collision in the estate.
Not: Track
A service is the whole line of business; a track is one line of work inside it, and the track — not the service — is what a spending limit binds to.
Not: App
A service is the business; an app is one window onto it.
🗣️Also called
business serviceline of businessP&L unit