> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://betterdatainc.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome to Better Data

> Better Data is a Commerce Chain Optimization platform — supply chain and demand chain operations, AI governance, product authentication, and LLM commerce integration.

# Welcome to Better Data

Better Data is a **Commerce Chain Optimization (CCO) platform** — the operational layer that connects supply chain, demand chain, AI governance, and physical product authentication into governed, observable workflows.

## What Better Data does

Every enterprise operation that moves goods, processes orders, manages inventory, or authenticates products is a **loop** — a governed workflow with named actors, policy enforcement, and a full audit trail.

Better Data runs these loops with AI actors, human approval gates, and compliance reporting built in.

## The four platform layers

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Loop Engine" icon="circle-nodes" href="/platform/loops">
    Governs decisions made by AI agents, humans, and automations. Every transition is attributed, policy-enforced, and audit-trailed.

    OSS: [loopengine.io](https://loopengine.io)\
    Hosted: [loops.betterdata.co](https://loops.betterdata.co)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Commerce Gateway" icon="gateway" href="/integrations/commerce-gateway">
    Connects LLMs to commerce data — product search, cart operations, order management via natural language.

    OSS: [commercegateway.io](https://commercegateway.io)\
    Hosted: [gateway.betterdata.co](https://gateway.betterdata.co)
  </Card>

  <Card title="SCM / DCM Modules" icon="boxes-stacked" href="/oss/scm-packages">
    Supply chain and demand chain operations — inventory, procurement, fulfillment, orders, returns — as governed loops.

    OSS: [commercechain.io](https://commercechain.io)\
    Hosted: [app.betterdata.com](https://app.betterdata.com)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Signal Tags" icon="tag" href="/oss/signal-tags">
    Physical product authentication — scannable tags that trigger compliance loops on verification failure.

    OSS: [tagd.sh](https://tagd.sh)\
    Hosted: [verify.betterdata.co](https://verify.betterdata.co)
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Where to start

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="I want to connect an LLM to my commerce data">
    Start with the Commerce Gateway quickstart:

    → [Quickstart](/getting-started/quickstart)\
    → [LLM Adapters](/getting-started/backends)\
    → [Tool Schema](/getting-started/tools)\
    → [MCP surfaces](/reference/mcp-surfaces) (gateway-console vs Registry MCP vs hosted gateway MCP)
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="I want to build governed supply chain workflows">
    Start with the SCM modules and Loop Engine:

    → [SCM Modules](/oss/scm-packages)\
    → [DCM Modules](/oss/dcm-packages)\
    → [Platform Architecture](/getting-started/platform-architecture)
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="I want to add product authentication">
    Start with Signal Tags:

    → [Signal Tags](/oss/signal-tags)\
    → [Signal Tags Integration](/integrations/signal-tags)\
    → [tagd.sh](https://tagd.sh)
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="I want the full hosted platform">
    → [Platform Overview](/platform/overview)\
    → [Hosted Getting Started](/hosted/getting-started)\
    → Contact [hello@betterdata.co](mailto:hello@betterdata.co)
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Open source

Every layer of the Better Data platform is open-source (**Apache-2.0**). You can self-host any component. The hosted platform adds multi-tenant isolation, AI intelligence, Industry Pack policies, and enterprise SLA.

→ [Open Source Overview](/oss/overview)

## Continue to the hosted console

The hosted app is the same product shell for **identity, workspace, analytics, and expansion**—not a separate product line. Use the links below from docs so entry context is preserved (`sp` and UTM parameters). After sign-up or sign-in, you land on a **source-aware** getting-started experience; OSS project sites remain the home for open-source downloads and project news.

**Canonical app URL:** use your deployment’s app origin (e.g. `https://app.betterdata.co`). Replace the origin if you use staging.

| Entry context             | Sign up (attribution preserved)                                                                                                  |
| ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Loop Engine**           | `https://app.betterdata.co/sign-up?sp=loopengine.io&utm_source=loopengine.io&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=oss_handoff`           |
| **Commerce Gateway**      | `https://app.betterdata.co/sign-up?sp=commercegateway.io&utm_source=commercegateway.io&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=oss_handoff` |
| **Signal Tags (tagd)**    | `https://app.betterdata.co/sign-up?sp=tagd.sh&utm_source=tagd.sh&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=oss_handoff`                       |
| **Commerce Chain / SCM**  | `https://app.betterdata.co/sign-up?sp=commercechain.io&utm_source=commercechain.io&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=oss_handoff`     |
| **Better Data (general)** | `https://app.betterdata.co/sign-up?sp=betterdata.co&utm_source=docs.betterdata.co&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=oss_handoff`      |

**Updates and narrative:** product and company posts live on the [Better Data blog](https://www.betterdata.co/blog). Technical docs stay here on **docs.betterdata.co**; cross-link rather than duplicating changelog content in multiple places.

See also: internal handoff notes in the repo at `docs/product/oss-hosted-handoff.md`.