You're selling on your site, Amazon, retail partners, maybe wholesale. You're shipping from multiple warehouses, maybe a 3PL. Every week it's the same questions:
“You've been answering these questions with spreadsheets, gut instinct, and Slack threads. It works—until it doesn't.”
Better Data replaces the patchwork. Demand forecasting, channel allocation rules, inventory visibility, and operational workflows—all in one place.
Know exactly what's actually available without five tabs.
Let policies handle which channel gets the stock.
Identify risks weeks before they hit your sales.
The same five layers apply across docs, OSS, and the product shell: infrastructure and protocol are not the same thing as reference demos or control. Gateway and registry setup are in-product; protocol endpoints are what you configure after the workspace is connected.
Infrastructure
Operator and hosted runtime surfaces for gateway configuration and MCP exposure — not interchangeable with protocol packages.
Protocol
Discovery and execution protocols agents and systems speak — separate from infrastructure UIs.
Reference
Implementation examples and accelerators — illustrate patterns; they are not the control plane.
Control
Governed automation, guards, and audit for loops — policy and outcomes, not demos.
Platform
The workspace shell where layers connect: identity, modules, and continuity after onboarding.
No PhD required. The system picks the right model and tells you when it's wrong.
Stop relitigating allocation decisions every week. Set the policy once, let the system enforce it.
"What do we have?" finally has a real answer.
The system tells you what's wrong and what to do about it. You decide whether to act.
“We're building in the open. These features are in active development.”
Wire marketing calendars directly into demand models.
Compare baseline forecasts against what-if scenarios.
Use committed orders as high-fidelity demand signals.
Warnings delivered to email, Slack, or webhook.
Execute moves directly from recommendations.
You need to know inventory is in the right place without building dashboards every quarter. Better Data gives you the system—forecasts, rules, alerts—so your team stops firefighting.
You're the one in the spreadsheets today. Better Data replaces the manual work: demand planning, allocation math, reorder calculations. You stay in control, but the busywork goes away.
You want APIs and a platform that doesn't create integration headaches. Better Data is built on Next.js, Prisma, and PlanetScale with audit trails baked in.
Better Data runs on open-source projects you can use independently. Deploy the gateway yourself. Run Loop Engine in your own stack. Or use Better Data as the managed layer that connects everything.
Governed execution for AI agents. Finite states, guard policies, human approval gates, and immutable audit trails. Apache-2.0, patent-safe.
loopengine.io →One tool schema for every LLM and every commerce platform. Self-host or use Better Data hosted. MIT licensed.
commercegateway.io →Signal Tags, Commerce Chain, and all Better Data OSS projects. Four projects. All production-grade. All available today.
betterdata.co/open-source →| Feature | Most Tools | Better Data |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboards vs recommendations | Dashboards showing the problem | Alerts & recommendations on what to do |
| Forecast Granularity | Company-wide forecasts | Location-level accuracy tracking |
| Allocation Method | Manual channel allocation | Policy engine with tiers & preemption |
| Inventory State | Point-in-time counts | ATP with reservations & snapshots |
| Explainability | Black-box AI | Explainable models with audit trails |
“We went from weekly allocation meetings to a policy that just runs. Stockouts dropped 40% in the first quarter.”Head of Supply ChainPremium Retail Brand
Commerce Registry Protocol: registration, verification, and discovery documentation updates.
Marketing site navigation, footer, and ecosystem links updated for Commerce Gateway and related OSS properties.
Commerce Gateway is a self-hosted routing layer that gives any LLM a stable, typed tool surface over your commerce stack — product search, cart operations, order management — without rewiring your integration for each provider or storefront. Initial public release.
See how Better Data works for your business. We'll walk through your channels, your inventory setup, and show you exactly what the platform can do today.
