| Locus Model | Coined | 2013 | A theoretical framework that defines the internal parts and processes of any product-producing system, giving every activity and resource a functional identity and an ordered position. |
| Functional Coordinates | Coined | 2013 | The coordinate system that locates any economic activity or resource by what it does and where it falls in the order of work, parallel to latitude/longitude in space and date/hour in time. Patent-backed (US 9,910,910; US 10,019,509). |
| Systems Economics | Coined | 2019 | The field designation for the study of economies as living systems composed of repeating, ordered functional activities and the resources that staff them. |
| Theory of Economic Systems | Coined | 2019 | The generalized systems theory of all activities and resources used in an economy, from which the Locus Model is built. |
| Locus Theory | Coined | 2019 | The comprehensive systems theory of all activities and resources used in an economy, stated in two branches: the Locus Theory of Economic Systems and the Locus Theory of People. |
| Locus Language | Coined | 2019 | The formal language of the model, in which activities function as verbs, resources as nouns, and a locus is a complete sentence describing real economic phenomena. |
| Locus | Coined | 2013 | The base unit of economic activity: a single pairing of an activity with the resources required to produce its output, which together fix the activity's position in economic space. |
| Activity Cycle | Coined | 2013 | The complete ordered sequence of actions a system performs to produce a product, dividing into four phases, twelve divisions, and thirty-six sub-divisions; the master construct of the Locus Model. |
| Economic Physiology | Coined | 2019 | The activity dimension of the model: the processes an economic system performs, treated as the physiology of a living economic organism. |
| Economic Morphology | Coined | 2019 | The resource dimension of the model: the parts an economic system is built from, treated as the anatomy of a living economic organism. |
| Enterprise Barcode | Coined | 2013 | The twenty-locus barcode capturing a company's product line and every Economic System connected to it — the model's principal commercial artifact. |
| Labor Barcode | Coined | 2019 | The four-field barcode capturing a job's functional role in the economy. |
| Terminality | Coined | 2019 | The property determining where a chain of product usage stops — the point at which a Work Group reaches the customer's Central Department Cycle and the sequence terminates. |
| Subject Resource Role | Coined | 2019 | The five functional contributions a subject resource can make in production: space-infrastructure, operator, direction, financial capacity, and power. |
| Structural Resources | Coined | 2019 | Resources used by performing a task directly and physically persistent, ready without transformation — comprising people, space, and equipment. |
| Supporting Resources | Coined | 2019 | Resources consumed in enabling a structural resource to perform — comprising information, money, and energy. |
| Functional Information System (FIS) | Coined | 2014 | The system that augments economic and financial data with standardized functional references, making business, employment, product, and service data unified, searchable, and stable across time and geography. Patent-backed (US 8,990,268; US 9,098,564; US 9,361,358). |
| FIS Coordinates | Coined | 2017 | The applied coordinate values assigned to each business, job, and product, identifying its functional role, position, and attributes in the economy. |
| Functional Location | Coined | 2014 | The position an economic element occupies in functional space, determined by what it does rather than where or when it operates. Patent-backed (US 11,657,026; US 12,242,431). |
| Functional Space | Coined | 2014 | The n-dimensional space in which functional locations are computed, compared, and traversed. Patent-backed (US 12,242,431). |
| Functional Proximity | Coined | 2014 | The measured distance between two functional locations, enabling comparison across otherwise unrelated entities. |
| Functional Trajectory | Coined | 2017 | The computed path an element traces through functional locations over time. Patent-backed (US 11,151,096). |
| Functional Query | Coined | 2017 | The retrieval method in which entities are found by functional coordinate rather than keyword, returning complete functional populations instead of name matches. |
| Systems Syntax | Coined | 2017 | The logical data model on which a representation of a functional system is constructed. |
| Production System Model | Coined | 2017 | The model identifying and defining the parts and processes necessary to produce a product, from which functional markers are derived. |
| Locus Functional Markers | Coined | 2017 | The coded functional references derived from the Production System Model and assigned to entities in the FIS database. |
| Functional Address | Coined | 2026 | The three-part identifier of any economic part: what the job does, what it produces, and where it sits in the functional order of work. Introduced in the forthcoming book Virtual Economics. |
| The Functional Triad | Coined | 2026 | The three-coordinate reference frame of time, space, and function, in which function supplies the 'what' that time and space cannot. |
| Economic Cartography | Coined | 2026 | The practice of charting an economic system by its functional coordinates so the whole can be seen, compared, and managed. |
| Natural Functional Order | Coined | 2026 | The stable, invariant sequence of positions that every ongoing economic system must fill, independent of geography, culture, technology, or era. |
| Bounded Order / Unbounded Fill | Coined | 2026 | The paired principle that the functional order is fixed while the actors, technologies, and outputs occupying it vary without limit. |
| Functional Twins | Coined | 2026 | The accurate functional representations that mirror real-world resources and activities inside the model. |
| Economic Twin | Coined | 2026 | The functional counterpart to the spatial twin supplied by GIS and the temporal twin supplied by the calendar. |
| Rapid Trait Development System (RTDS) | used extensively | | Cibus's precision gene-editing platform for agricultural trait development, applying production-system methodology to plant biology. |
| Stratified Weighting | used extensively | | The index-construction methodology underlying the Syntax Stratified Indices, grouping securities by functional attribute rather than conventional sector classification. |
