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title: Get started
url: https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started
content_type: landing
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# Get started

What is CluedIn and how do I begin?
  Anyone opening CluedIn for the first time.

CluedIn takes messy data from many systems and turns it into golden records you can trust. This section explains what the platform does, defines the terms used everywhere else in the documentation, and walks you through your first end-to-end run.

Once you are oriented, the rest of the documentation follows the data lifecycle: [Ingest](https://documentation.cluedin.net/ingest.md) -> [Model](https://documentation.cluedin.net/model.md) -> [Master](https://documentation.cluedin.net/master.md) -> [Govern & improve](https://documentation.cluedin.net/govern.md) -> [Publish & consume](https://documentation.cluedin.net/publish.md).

## In this section

- [What is CluedIn?](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/what-is-cluedin.md) (concept): CluedIn is a master data management platform.
- [Quick feature tour](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/quick-feature-tour.md) (tutorial): Welcome to the Quick Feature Tour of CluedIn.
- [Core concepts](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/core-concepts.md): Short explanations of the ideas the rest of the documentation assumes you know.
- [Take the in-app product tour](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/product-tour.md) (how-to): Besides the written guides in this section, CluedIn also includes a short, interactive product tour that you can take directly in the application.
- [Quickstart](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/quickstart.md) (tutorial): This is the shortest complete path through CluedIn: get data in, make it good, and send it somewhere.
- [Terminology](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/terminology.md) (reference): Each term below has exactly one home in the documentation.
- [How to get CluedIn](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/get-cluedin.md) (how-to): CluedIn makes doing business easy by giving you flexibility to adopt our platform at your own pace.
- [Getting access](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/getting-access.md) (how-to): In this article, you will find instructions on how to get access to CluedIn.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/faq.md) (reference): Any modifications made to the default configuration, except those explicitly documented as post-install adjustments on the documentation portal, will result in the termination of support.
- [Use this documentation with an AI assistant](https://documentation.cluedin.net/get-started/ai-assistants.md) (how-to): Point an AI assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot or Cursor at this documentation so it answers CluedIn questions from the current pages instead of from memory, and reads them in a form that costs it fa...