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Original notes on AI commerce infrastructure, catalogs, labeled offers, and MCP operations.

• What is AI commerce infrastructure?

  Knobase is AI commerce infrastructure that connects approved products and campaigns to contextual, clearly labeled offers in AI services.

• What is the difference between a Product, Campaign, and Offer?

  A Product is the stable item. A Campaign is optional commercial policy. An Offer is the clearly labeled sponsored or affiliate recommendation returned to an AI service.

• How Shopify catalogs can become AI recommendation inventory

  Yes. Merchants can connect a Shopify catalog, select products or collections, and approve eligible products for AI recommendation workflows.

• How to add sponsored offers without changing organic AI answers

  Keep answer generation as a separate step. Request a contextual offer afterward, render it in a labeled surface, and continue the chat if the request returns no-fill.

• Why a Product is not always a Campaign

  If a product is in stock, policy-safe, and collection-approved, it can be an offer candidate without a campaign. Campaigns add constraints, not existence.

• Contextual AI recommendations: disclosure, controls, and trust

  A contextual offer is allowed only when it is labeled, the product facts are reviewable, and the publisher can refuse the placement.

• MCP for commerce operations: what connected AI can manage

  Connected AI can keep working on product imports, catalog cleanup, campaign drafts, sandbox analytics, request logs, and verification runs through a long-lived MCP connection.