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title: "Glossary"
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# Glossary

The words Openlead uses in the app and in these docs, from company and credit to workspace, each with a short definition and a link to the page that covers it.

## C to F

### Company

An organization, identified by its web domain. Openlead keeps one record for each domain, however many searches find it. Plans count the companies you find each month. See [Plans and credits](https://openlead.ai/docs/plans-and-credits).

### Credit

One more company past your plan's monthly limit. Once this month's companies are used, a search keeps going on credits, one for each new company. See [Plans and credits](https://openlead.ai/docs/plans-and-credits).

### Database

The companies and people your workspace's searches have found, together with those on its lists. It grows with every search. See [Data and sources](https://openlead.ai/docs/data-and-sources).

### Freshness

How old a saved fact may be before Openlead reads the web again. Known people at a company are reused for 90 days, and an identical search is answered from saved results for 7 days. See [Data and sources](https://openlead.ai/docs/data-and-sources).

## G to P

### Guest preview

The 5 companies Openlead shows for your own website before you have an account. It expires after 24 hours. Verify your email to keep it as your first search. Try it at [openlead.ai/try](https://openlead.ai/try).

### ICP

Your ideal customer profile: the customers you want, written in plain words or taken from your website. It is what a search starts from. See [Describe your ICP](https://openlead.ai/docs/describe-your-icp).

### Lead

A company together with the people found at it. See [People at a company](https://openlead.ai/docs/people-at-a-company).

### List

A named collection of companies or people that you keep. A list holds one kind, and everyone in the workspace sees it. See [Lists](https://openlead.ai/docs/lists).

### Person

Someone who works at a company. Openlead identifies a person by the address of their public profile, or by their name and company when there is no profile. See [People at a company](https://openlead.ai/docs/people-at-a-company).

## S to W

### Saved

A company or person that is in a list. See [Lists](https://openlead.ai/docs/lists).

### Search

What Openlead does with your ICP: it finds 25 companies unless you ask for more, up to 500, and up to 3 people at each. Only the new companies it finds count against your month. See [Describe your ICP](https://openlead.ai/docs/describe-your-icp).

### Source

Where a fact was read. Every company and person keeps a link to the page it came from. See [Results and sources](https://openlead.ai/docs/results-and-sources) and [Data and sources](https://openlead.ai/docs/data-and-sources).

### Target roles

The job roles Openlead looks for at each company: CEO, Founder, Head of Sales and Head of Marketing.

### Workspace

Where your searches, database and lists live, at openlead.ai/your-name. Your plan decides how many workspaces and seats you have. See [Workspaces and members](https://openlead.ai/docs/workspaces-and-members).