Jargon is a wall. This is a door.
Live demo → https://bodhiprotocol.github.io/jargon-decoder/
Every industry protects itself with vocabulary. Capital markets more than most: novation, DvP, corporate actions, golden source, T+1.
This is 99+ of those terms decoded into plain language — one italic sentence anyone can understand, plus one more sentence of depth for those who want it.
Business analysts live at the translation layer between business and technology. This tool is that skill, made visible.
Eight categories — six mirroring the Trade Lifecycle Explorer, plus Investment Banking for the deal-making side of markets and Investment Analysis for how investments actually get valued:
Lifecycle · Clearing & Settlement · Instruments · Risk & Compliance · Market Structure · Technology · Investment Banking · Investment Analysis
Features: live search across terms and definitions, category filters, a Surprise me button for wandering, a mini-diagram for every single term (look for the ◆ visual badge), and a Test me flashcard mode: read the plain-language definition, guess the term, reveal.
One self-contained index.html. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies, no API. Vanilla JS. Open the file, it works — even offline.
Tools and games that make complex systems simple. More at github.com/BodhiProtocol.
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." — Socrates