Jargon, decoded.

Vernaq is a simple way to capture the words your team uses every day — acronyms, internal project names, shorthand — and explain them clearly.

Plain English Shared language Faster ramp-up

A Vernaq looks like this

Short. Clear. One place to point people.

OKR

Example

Objective and Key Results — a goal-setting framework. Objectives are what we want; Key Results are how we measure it.

Acronym Goals

Project Phoenix

Example

Internal name for the platform rewrite. Mostly used in planning docs and standups.

Internal Project

Why it exists

1

Ramp up faster

New people get context quickly without interrupting others.

2

Fewer “what does that mean?” moments

Put the explanation in one place and link to it when needed.

3

Shared language over time

Institutional knowledge stops living only in people’s heads.

Private or public — your call

Vernaqs can be private for your team, unlisted via link, or public. Public Vernaqs help build a growing library of plain-English explanations anyone can learn from.

Private Unlisted Public

Vernaq is in beta

If something feels confusing or missing, feedback is genuinely appreciated.

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