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Workflows your team uses every day, and an organisational brain that gets sharper each time they're used.

Cortex runs the work your team is already doing today. Costing, quality checks, sales response, channel queries. Each workflow finishes faster and with less back-and-forth. While the work is happening, the reasoning behind every decision is captured. Over weeks and months, your organisation builds a record of how it actually thinks.

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INPUTS CORTEX IMMEDIATE FINISHED WORK COMPOUNDING EACH SESSION CONTRIBUTES TO BOTH
Built for
Teams who handle complex, document-heavy workflows across more than one department.
Engagement
Co-innovation with our first partners.
What Cortex is

Most software helps you finish work. Cortex helps you finish the work, and keeps what your team learned doing it.

The work your team is already doing today carries a lot of judgement. The senior engineer who knows which suppliers are reliable for SS 304. The channel lead who knows which dealer questions need a senior reply. The sales head who knows which terms have been held in past negotiations. None of this is written down anywhere. It lives in people, and when they're busy or away or move on, the organisation slows down.

Cortex is a single system that runs your workflows. Each workflow finishes the work it's supposed to. A costing draft gets ready faster. A QC investigation closes faster. A sales enquiry gets a useful reply faster. That's the visible value, and it arrives from week one.

The second value is quieter. As the work runs, Cortex records the reasoning behind every decision your team makes. What was asked, what was answered, what was flagged, what was overruled. Three months in, you have a searchable record of how your organisation decides. A year in, you have an asset that doesn't depreciate.

Workflows we've configured so far

One system, many workflows.

Cortex isn't built for one job. It's built around how your team works through documents, decisions, and follow-ups. Here are four workflows we've configured with early partners. Each finishes faster the same week it's switched on. Each leaves a trace behind.

Costing & evaluation

From enquiry to working cost sheet, in hours.

Drawings, part lists, and specifications come in. Cortex reads them, opens a structured brief, and walks your engineer through routing, tolerance, and rate decisions. The cost sheet assembles from the inputs and the captured judgements.

What's captured
Why a routing decision was made. Which cost drivers matter for which part families. Where standard rates were overridden and on whose authority.
Quality control

A defect, investigated end-to-end in one session.

A defect surfaces. Cortex pulls the inspection records, the batch documents, and the supplier history, then walks the investigation through with whoever is on it. Root cause and corrective action arrive in a single sitting.

What's captured
How defects cluster across suppliers, processes, or shifts. Which corrective actions held over time. The reasoning behind a call, not only the conclusion.
Sales response

Enquiries answered the way your best rep would.

Client requests arrive in email and on calls. Cortex drafts a response in your firm's voice, against your firm's actual past commitments and pricing. Your sales lead reviews, edits, and sends. The drafts get sharper as the brain learns your team's preferences.

What's captured
Which terms your firm has agreed to before, which ones it has held the line on, and which client requests need to escalate. Your sales playbook, written by your sales team without anyone having to write it.
Channel & dealer queries

Dealer questions, answered against the latest circulars.

Queries from your channel arrive across email, WhatsApp, and calls. Eligibility under a scheme. The right variant for a customer profile. A warranty edge case. Cortex reads the question, pulls the relevant circular, policy, and past adjudications, and drafts a position. Your channel lead reviews and signs off.

What's captured
How each scheme has been interpreted in the past. Which dealer questions recur and where. Which exceptions have been allowed and on whose authority.
See it in motion

A workflow that finishes the work, and what the organisation just learned.

Below is an excerpt from a costing session. An RFQ has come in for a repeat part family with one new wrinkle. The engineer would usually spend two days pulling past costings, checking material rates, and working through the routing. Here, Cortex has already pulled the relevant files. The session begins with the right question, not the search for it.

Act one

A workflow that finishes the work.

Your team answers what only they can answer. Cortex carries the rest.

Session · Costing · RFQ R-2418
Cortex
RFQ R-2418, single part, 320 units, machined steel housing. I've pulled the drawing, the closest past costing from the same part family, and the current material rate sheet. The drawing shows a tighter tolerance on the bore than we've costed for this family before. Want to start with the routing?
You
Yes. What's the closest precedent?
Cortex
Reading the past costings. → Closest match: P-1182, run last quarter, 200 units
→ Routing: VMC then internal grind for the bore
→ Standard rate held; margin came out at 18%
The new tolerance on R-2418 is one grade tighter. That likely needs an extra honing pass after the grind, which adds about ₹120 per unit in cycle time. Should I cost it that way?
You
Yes, and check the current steel rate against what we used for P-1182.
Cortex
Steel rate is up 4.2% since last quarter. Applied to the BOM, this drops the margin from 18% to 15.6% at the standard quote. I'll draft the cost sheet with both versions: standard rate, and a 2% margin-recovery option through a small price increase. You can review before it goes to sales.
Act two

What the organisation just learned.

The costing session above is done in ten minutes. That's the visible value. Underneath it, something else has happened. Three things now sit in your organisation's brain that didn't sit there yesterday.

Captured · Session R-2418
Pattern
Steel-rate movement above 3% in a quarter has now correlated with margin slippage on three repeat-part families. Next time a costing for a repeat part is opened, Cortex will check the material rate trend before locking the standard.
Rule
When a new RFQ matches a past part family but introduces a tighter tolerance grade, the standard routing should be flagged for an additional finishing operation. This becomes how your engineering team handles tolerance shifts, with or without the senior engineer who first decided it.
Precedent
When margin slippage is driven by input cost rather than routing changes, the cost sheet now carries two versions: standard, and a margin-recovery option for sales to consider. The next senior costing review starts with the decision, not the maths.
How it's wired

Two outputs, every time.

Each workflow produces a finished piece of work that your team uses today. The same workflow contributes to a second, longer output that compounds in the background. One system. Two value streams.

INPUTS Documents drawings, invoices, emails Team answers judgement on the call System records ERP, CAD, CRM CORTEX Workflow Costing Quality control Sales response Channel & dealer queries OUTPUTS IMMEDIATE Finished work cost sheet, NCR, draft reply, dealer position drafted COMPOUNDING Organisational brain patterns, rules, precedents, searchable across the team VALUE OVER TIME

The same workflow that closes today's work feeds tomorrow's. Every session contributes to both.

How an engagement runs

Four phases, with the brain accruing from day one.

Each phase has a clear end state, signed off by your team before the next begins. The captured reasoning accumulates from the first live session.

01 · Stimuli
Mapping the operational reality of your workflow
We sit with your team and trace the workflow as it actually runs. Which documents come in, in what state. Which decisions get made, by whom, on what basis. Which systems hold which records. The phase ends with a written map your team recognises as accurate.
Mitochondria-led
02 · Neuroplasticity
Cortex learns the way your team does
Cortex is configured against your documents, your reference data, and the way your team has decided things before. We test it on past work and tune it. The phase ends when Cortex hits 85% accuracy on real cases, validated by a sample your team has marked up.
Mitochondria-led · 85% gate
03 · Synthesis
Running live, with your team supervising
Cortex runs real workflow sessions with one or two nominated team members. Every correction goes back into the system. The phase ends when corrections taper off and Cortex is producing work your team trusts without rewriting.
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04 · Energy
Full autonomous operation
The workflow runs without supervision. Your team uses Cortex the way they'd use a well-briefed colleague. From here, the captured reasoning accumulates with every session, and we configure the next workflow when you're ready.
You
Questions

Worth asking.

How is this different from a chatbot or a copilot?

A chatbot answers questions. A copilot suggests next lines. Cortex runs the workflow with your team and records what was decided. Your team's judgement stays where it is. The work finishes and the reasoning gets saved. That second part is the difference, and it's what makes Cortex compound.

What does "organisational brain" actually mean?

It's a structured record of decisions made through Cortex, indexed by workflow, person, and topic. Searchable in plain language. If a new hire wants to know how your firm has costed tighter-tolerance work in the past year, the answer is there. If your sales lead wants to see what terms have been agreed for repeat clients in the last quarter, the answer is there. The brain lives in your environment, not ours.

Can we add our own workflows over time?

Yes. The four shown on this page are the ones we've configured with early partners. The same architecture runs whatever workflow your team needs, as long as the work involves documents, decisions, and a sequence of questions. We typically configure one workflow at a time so the team has space to absorb each one.

Who in our team owns the captured reasoning?

You do. The brain is your asset, not ours. We provide the system that captures and structures it. The records can be exported at any point, and access can be controlled by role, so the QC team's records aren't visible to sales unless you want them to be.

Does our data leave our environment?

No data is stored by Mitochondria. Documents and decisions move transiently through our cloud infrastructure and the output is returned to your nominated workspace. The brain sits within your environment. Data handling is documented in our DPA, aligned with GDPR, UK GDPR, and DPDP.

What if we already have an ERP, a CRM, and a QMS?

Cortex sits alongside them. It connects to the systems your team already uses, reads the documents your team already produces, and writes the outputs back into the workflow your team already runs. It doesn't replace your existing software. It works the way your team already works, with less of the heavy lifting.

What does it cost?

Pricing is structured around the engagement, not per seat. The range depends on which workflows you start with and how deep the brain accumulates. We share specifics during the walkthrough with qualified engagements.

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