Donor-gamete language, in plain terms.

A workflow where AI organizes evidence, compares claims to source material, flags inconsistencies, and routes human review.¹²

How we use it: Do not imply AI independently verifies donors.

A donor whose identity was not intended to be disclosed to recipients or donor-conceived people under the program's rules.³⁴

How we use it: Explain as legacy/user-facing language. Avoid implying anonymity can be guaranteed.

Assisted reproductive technology.¹

How we use it: Define on first use. Avoid as primary marketing language because it is too clinical and broad.

Medical or clinical support for reproduction, including procedures and contexts broader than donor gametes.¹

How we use it: Too broad for core positioning. Use only when the broader fertility-treatment category is required.

A record of what changed, who reviewed it, what evidence was used, and what decision was made.⁴¹

How we use it: Central to institutional trust and accountability.

A broad term often used for a genetic parent, and sometimes used by donor-conceived people for a donor.⁵

How we use it: Allow user preference. In Aerial, distinguish genetic contribution from legal or raising parent roles.

A person who gave birth to the child. This may or may not be a genetic parent.⁵

How we use it: Use only when birth or gestation is relevant and the person chooses or accepts this framing.

A fertility clinic or care provider involved in donor-gamete treatment, family-building, records, counseling, or coordination.¹

How we use it: One likely SaaS buyer/user.

Product settings and permission controls that govern visibility, sharing, contact, identity release, updates, and access to sensitive records.⁴¹

How we use it: Use as the general product term. Pair with `granular` when emphasizing nuanced rules rather than binary access.

A durable record of a consent decision, including scope, timing, parties, source, version, evidence, review status, and changes over time.⁴¹

How we use it: Use when emphasizing accountability, audit trails, and the move away from one-time paperwork.

A process for requesting, reviewing, granting, limiting, changing, revoking where appropriate, or escalating a consent decision.⁴¹

How we use it: Use when describing clinic, cryobank, donor, or family workflows that need human review, policy checks, and durable records.

Software behavior that respects recorded consent rules, role permissions, timing, visibility, contact preferences, policy obligations, and audit requirements.⁴¹

How we use it: Use sparingly and only for infrastructure logic. In public copy, usually prefer `informed consent`, `granular consent controls`, `consent records`, or `consent workflows`.

Sharing workflows that apply recorded consent controls across role, timing, visibility, identity, contact preferences, and institutional obligations.⁴¹

How we use it: Keep as a secondary product phrase. It means software enforcement of consent rules, not the informed-consent process itself.

An organization that stores, manages, distributes, and tracks donor sperm, eggs, or embryos.¹

How we use it: One likely SaaS buyer/user.

Donor-conceived adult.⁵⁶

How we use it: Define on first use. Useful when specifically discussing adult donor-conceived people and identity-access workflows.

Donor-conceived person.⁵⁶

How we use it: Define on first use in user-facing copy. Avoid using the acronym alone where a new user might be confused.

Informal shorthand for donor sibling. Some people use it warmly; others find it too cute or minimizing.⁵⁶

How we use it: Useful to educate users who may encounter the term, but prefer `donor sibling` or the user's chosen term in primary app UI.

A donor who is identified to or has a known relationship with the intended or recipient parent(s) before donation.³⁴

How we use it: Preferred current clinical language over `known donor` when describing donor-recipient relationship at donation.

A discovery about genetic parentage, donor conception, siblings, or relatives through consumer DNA testing or related evidence.⁵

How we use it: Use in education and support contexts. Treat as sensitive because it can affect identity, family relationships, and privacy.

A sperm, egg, or embryo donor whose information, updates, consent preferences, and donation outcomes may need durable tracking.¹

How we use it: Avoid reducing donors to records; donor control is a product value proposition.

The lived experience and family-building context created when a child is conceived with donated sperm, eggs, or embryos.¹

How we use it: Use for family-facing and lived-experience language.

A person who shares a sperm, egg, or embryo donor connection with another donor-conceived person and may have been raised in a different household.⁷⁸

How we use it: Offer as a precise alternative to `dibling` and `donor sibling`.

A clinic, cryobank, agency, or organization managing donor recruitment, records, eligibility, updates, and obligations.¹

How we use it: Useful umbrella term.

Decision support that helps clinics, cryobanks, or intended parents review fit, availability, constraints, records, and risk context.¹

How we use it: Do not imply AI chooses donors.

People connected through the same donor, often across different households or families.⁷⁸

How we use it: Preferred primary UI term over `dibling`; use `half-sibling` when a user prefers precise genetic language.

A family that includes one or more donor-conceived people or was formed through donor sperm, eggs, or embryos.¹

How we use it: Useful human-facing copy, but not large enough for the full industry or SaaS narrative.

A person conceived with donated sperm, eggs, or embryos.¹

How we use it: Use person-first language. `DCP` is common shorthand, but spell it out on first use.

Donor ability to manage what information is shared, when it is shared, and which parties can see it.¹²

How we use it: Future SaaS/donor-control scope, not first family pilot scope.

The broader network of people, institutions, records, relationships, updates, consent decisions, and obligations created by donor-gamete use.¹

How we use it: Use when emphasizing multi-party coordination rather than market category.

The market around sperm donation, egg donation, embryo donation, clinics, cryobanks, donor programs, donors, intended parents, recipient families, and donor-conceived people.¹

How we use it: Preferred business-facing category.

A family-building context involving both donor sperm and donor eggs.¹

How we use it: Useful educational glossary term. Define in plain language before using in workflows.

A person who provides eggs for another person's or couple's family-building process. Also called an oocyte donor in clinical contexts.¹

How we use it: Use `egg donor` in plain-language UI; define `oocyte donor` if used in clinical content.

A family-building process where donated embryos are used to attempt pregnancy.¹

How we use it: Include in education because embryo donation can create genetic links to both embryo donors.

A person or couple who donates embryos for another person's or couple's family-building process.¹

How we use it: Use when discussing embryo donation records, genetic links, and consent.

A donor profile or claim supported by documents, attestations, institutional review, source records, or other reviewable evidence.⁴¹

How we use it: Preferred over unsupported self-reporting.

The strategy of starting with families because they feel the relationship and trust problem first, then expanding into institutional SaaS.¹

How we use it: Use when explaining go-to-market, not in user-facing app UI.

A parent label a household may use for a legal parent, raising parent, or guardian who is called father.¹

How we use it: Do not infer sperm contribution or genetic relationship from this label.

A person who provides sperm or eggs for reproduction and does not intend to parent the resulting child.¹

How we use it: Useful umbrella term across sperm and egg donation.

A person whose sperm or egg contributed genetic material to the child.¹

How we use it: Use when genetic connection matters. Do not use it to override a user's chosen parent or donor language.

A person connected through shared DNA, including donor siblings, donor relatives, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and ancestors.¹

How we use it: Useful for DNA discovery, contact, and relationship mapping. Do not imply an automatic social relationship.

A person who carries a pregnancy created from the gametes of intended parent(s), donors, or both, and does not provide the egg for that pregnancy.¹

How we use it: Preferred clinical term for non-genetic pregnancy carrier workflows.

A parent who carried the pregnancy and may or may not be genetically related to the child.¹

How we use it: Use when pregnancy and parenting both matter. Separate from `gestational carrier` when the person is also a parent.

Fine-grained settings that let people specify what can be shared, with whom, under what conditions, at what time, for what purpose, and with which exceptions.⁴¹

How we use it: Use to explain that Aerial is not just a yes/no or on/off consent switch. The product should support `if`, `when`, `and`, `or`, and `but` logic where consent decisions require nuance.

A person with legal or court-recognized authority or responsibility for a child, depending on jurisdiction and documentation.¹

How we use it: Use as a role option when a child's day-to-day or legal care does not fit `parent` cleanly.

People who share one genetic parent. In donor conception, this may refer to people connected through the same donor.¹

How we use it: Respect user preference. Do not hide donor connections behind vague sibling language when clarity matters.

New or changed medical-history information that may need to move from donor, clinic, cryobank, or family records to relevant parties.⁴¹

How we use it: AI may summarize or route; humans remain responsible.

The app's family-centered unit for organizing people, relationships, permissions, and pilot workflows.¹

How we use it: Use when discussing the in-app structure. Add helper copy when users might expect `family`, `home`, or `account` instead.

A workflow where donor identity or identifying details become available according to consent, policy, age, law, or program obligations.⁷⁸

How we use it: Requires careful jurisdiction and policy review.

A donor whose identifying information may become available to donor-conceived people at a specified age or under specified program rules.⁷⁸

How we use it: Use for disclosure-timing workflows and explain jurisdiction/program differences.

A consent process where a person receives understandable information about the decision, risks, benefits, limits, alternatives, and future implications before agreeing.⁴¹

How we use it: Preferred term when discussing human decisions by donors, intended or recipient parents, families, or donor-conceived people. Do not replace it with `consent-aware`.

A person or couple seeking to become a parent through donor gametes, embryo donation, assisted reproduction, or a gestational carrier arrangement.¹

How we use it: Use in education, waitlist, and pre-birth contexts. Once a child exists, prefer the family's chosen parent labels unless legal workflow context requires `intended parent`.

A donor known to the recipient or intended parent(s), often through family, friendship, or a direct arrangement.³⁴

How we use it: Explain because users will encounter it, but prefer `directed donor` in clinical or policy-facing copy.

A donor-conceived person who learns later in life that they are donor-conceived.⁵⁶

How we use it: Use when relevant to onboarding, support, and contact workflows; avoid assuming every DCP has the same discovery story.

A person recognized as a child's parent under applicable law or legal documentation.¹

How we use it: Use when legal status matters. Do not present as legal advice because parentage rules vary by jurisdiction.

A parent label a household may use for a legal parent, raising parent, or guardian who is called mother.¹

How we use it: Do not infer egg contribution, pregnancy, birth, or genetic relationship from this label.

A parent who does not share a genetic connection with the child.¹

How we use it: Use when relevant to donor conception, same-sex parenthood, or double-donor contexts. Avoid making it the primary identity label.

A donor who is not identified to the recipient or intended parent(s) at the time of donation.³⁴

How we use it: Preferred current clinical language over `anonymous donor`, while acknowledging anonymity can be limited by DNA testing and online search.

Not parent expected or non-paternity event, an umbrella term used in DNA-discovery communities when genetic parentage differs from what someone expected.⁵⁶

How we use it: Define if used. Use carefully because not all donor-conceived people identify with NPE language.

A donor, clinic, or cryobank's ability to understand how many offspring are connected to a donor across allowed records and systems.¹²

How we use it: Important for donor control and institutional accountability.

Clinical term for egg donor.¹

How we use it: Prefer `egg donor` for user-facing copy unless quoting clinical records.

A family-role label for a legal parent, raising parent, or guardian in a household.¹

How we use it: In Aerial, `parent` does not automatically mean genetic, biological, or gestational parent. Model those connections separately.

Donation arranged outside a licensed clinic, regulated program, or institutional record system.¹

How we use it: Use when discussing record gaps, verification needs, and risk visibility. Avoid shaming users who came through these paths.

A parent or caregiver who raises a child, regardless of genetic or gestational relationship.¹²

How we use it: Useful when distinguishing day-to-day parenting from genetic or donor connections.

A family that used donor gametes or embryos to conceive or build a household.⁴¹

How we use it: Useful in external copy; pair with `household` when discussing the product data model.

The product's household-centered framing for family users in the app.¹

How we use it: Use for product scope and pilot implementation. A household may overlap with a legal family or home, but is not identical to either.

A parent who used donor sperm, eggs, or embryos to conceive or build their family.⁵

How we use it: Useful educational term. Avoid using it as the only identity label for a parent in the app.

The structured map of donor-conceived relationships across donors, offspring, sibling groups, households, clinics, and related people.¹²

How we use it: Core product/data moat. In user-facing UI, prefer friendlier helper copy like `how people are connected`.

Recipient parent.¹

How we use it: Define on first use and avoid using the acronym in primary app UI.

Single mother by choice.¹

How we use it: Treat as a common variant of `SMC`; define on first use and avoid switching between `SMC` and `SMBC` in the same surface.

Single mother by choice.¹

How we use it: Define on first use. Use when the user or context already uses this community language.

A parent or parent-like figure whose relationship is social, emotional, or caregiving rather than genetic.⁵

How we use it: Use carefully. Some people prefer it for clarity; others may find it too clinical for their own parent.

A person who provides sperm for another person's or couple's family-building process.¹

How we use it: Use when the donated material matters. Do not assume the donor is socially absent or anonymous.

Visibility into unusually high offspring counts, undisclosed donation activity, or concentration risk.¹²

How we use it: Use `risk visibility`, not guaranteed detection.

A broad term for a person who carries a pregnancy for another person or couple. It can refer to gestational or traditional surrogacy.¹

How we use it: Define carefully because some clinical sources prefer `gestational carrier` for cases where the carrier is not genetically related to the child.

Assisted reproduction involving someone outside the intended or recipient parent(s), such as a gamete donor, embryo donor, or gestational carrier.¹

How we use it: Useful in clinical or legal context, but colder and broader than Aerial's preferred category language.

A surrogate who both carries the pregnancy and provides the egg, making them genetically related to the child.¹

How we use it: Use only when specifically relevant. Flag as legally and ethically complex.