Glossary
Terms every founder should know
Clear definitions. Real startup context. No jargon.
These are the terms that come up when you look for customers in public threads: what a shadowban is and why nobody tells you about it, what approval-gated means, and what an AI marketing agent does and does not do. Each entry gives the short definition first, then how the idea works in practice and what to do about it. They are written from what FounderDive's own safety checks look for, so they describe habits that protect an account rather than quoting any group's rule book.
AI Marketing Agent
Software that finds the conversations where a product's buyers are describing the problem it solves, drafts a reply for each, and hands it to a human to post. The software itself never posts. It diffe...
Approval-Gated Posting
A design in which software may draft a message but may never publish it without a human approving that exact text. It is the difference between a tool that gets an account banned and one that does not...
Shadowban
A moderation state in which an account's posts are hidden from everyone else while appearing normal to the account's owner. Posts submit successfully, the profile loads, nothing is flagged, and nobody...