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25 terms from the Australian PPSR, ASIC, asset finance, address intelligence, and AI agent vocabulary. Each entry is a definition first, context second. Cite anything you like.
PPSRThe Australian national register where security interests in personal property are recorded.NPIIDisambiguation: AFSA's National Personal Insolvency Index (bankruptcy register), distinct from Hoist Assets's deprecated internal 'NPII' shorthand for org-only PPSR searches (now renamed to 'org-only').ASIC entity intelligenceCompany, business-name, AFSL, and ACL checks with explicit verified, not verified, and human-review field labels.ACNA unique 9-digit number assigned by ASIC to every Australian company at registration.ABNA unique 11-digit identifier issued by the ATO for tax and business purposes; covers companies, sole traders, partnerships, trusts.GrantorThe entity (organisation or person) whose property is subject to a security interest under the Personal Property Securities Act.Secured partyThe party who holds a security interest over the grantor's property - typically a lender, finance company, supplier on retention-of-title terms, or lessor.Search certificateThe official, AFSA-issued PDF returned by every PPSR search - proof of what the register showed at a specific point in time.B2G AccountAFSA's framework for approved PPSR account-customer organisations and the source-availability boundary for Hoist's org-only searches.Serial-number searchA PPSR search by an asset's serial number (VIN, chassis, aircraft serial) rather than by the grantor's identity.Asset due diligenceThe process of verifying an asset's title, encumbrance status, and counterparty identity before a transaction completes.Register searchAny search that retrieves data from an official government register - PPSR, ABR, ASIC, land titles, court files.AFSAThe Commonwealth statutory authority that operates the PPSR and administers personal insolvency.ABRThe free public register of ABNs, GST registration, registered business names, and historical trading names, operated by the ATO.G-NAFThe Geocoded National Address File, an Australian address reference dataset used for address consistency checks.Address confidenceA signal that compares supplied Australian address text with address evidence; useful for consistency, not identity proof.Due Diligence RecordThe one-page PDF Hoist Assets generates after every search - summarising the inquiry, hashing the AFSA certificate, and tying it to an audit-chain entry.Audit chainAn append-only, hash-linked log of every search Hoist Assets has ever run - designed so a record's authenticity can be verified without contacting us.MCPAn open protocol for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources via OAuth-scoped tool calls.Evidence PackThe agent-ready bundle Hoist returns after running source checks: verdict, source checks, timestamps, risk flags, confidence, human review items, and the Due Diligence Record where applicable.Hoist ConnectorThe agent-facing access layer that connects your AI tool of choice to Australian source data through MCP, API, and CLI.AI agentA software process that uses a language model to call tools, take actions, and reason toward a goal on behalf of a user.Source checkAn individual verification step within an Evidence Pack, querying one Australian register at one point in time and returning a timestamped result.Risk flagA discrepancy or anomaly surfaced by a source check and included in the Evidence Pack. Signals that a data point warrants attention.Human review itemAn action in an Evidence Pack that requires human judgment to resolve. Source data alone is insufficient; a person must decide.
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