Definition
Plain language
A key business number a company tracks to gauge how it's doing, like sales growth or customer satisfaction.
As stated in the literature
Key Performance Indicator — a quantitative business metric; numeric KPIs (growth rates, satisfaction scores, dates) are the canonical private facts in enterprise agent privacy-leakage benchmarks.
Also called: KPIs
Why it matters: These numbers are exactly the kind of confidential business facts that an enterprise AI agent must avoid leaking.
For example, a store might track monthly sales growth and customer satisfaction scores as its main KPIs.
Heard on the show
“It looks like enterprise documents and quarterly KPIs because that's the world these people live in.”Episode 104 — How Making a Research Agent Smarter Quietly Makes It Leak Your Secrets