Every answer cites Aria’s interview corpus, Max’s observed signal, and the operating tools beneath them. No claim without a footnote.
Cortex
The Company Brain. Ask anything. Deploy agents. Prove ROI.
Cortex synthesizes what Aria heard and what Max observed into a unified operational model. He answers any question with citations, recommends which agents to deploy, deploys them, and proves the dollar impact every month.
Your company has more data than ever and less understanding than ever.
Dashboards show you metrics. They don’t tell you why those metrics look the way they do. You can see that dispatch time is 6.2 hours. You can’t see that it’s because three departments use different priority schemas and nobody reconciled them after the merger two years ago.
That insight requires combining what your tools show (Max) with what your people know (Aria), then reasoning over both. That’s what Cortex does. He’s the senior partner sitting in the room who has read every document, talked to every person, observed every system, and can answer any question. Except he actually has.
“A living map of how a company works. The missing layer between raw company data and reliable AI automation. Every company in the world is going to need one.”Tom Blomfield · YC RFS Summer 2026 · The Company Brain
Designed to be operated by partners, not consumed by binders — one query for the answer, one click for the agent that fixes it.
Synthesize. Recommend. Deploy and measure.
Cortex ingests everything Aria heard and everything Max observed.
Not a search engine over your data. A reasoning engine over your operation. Where Aria and Max align, confidence rises. Where they contradict, Cortex flags it — that’s where organizational blind spots live.
The synthesis runs on Corvana’s consulting intelligence layer: forty-plus frameworks, eighteen benchmark sources, three-tier citation discipline. Every finding is sourced to specific interview data, specific tool observations, or explicit benchmarks. Nothing is fabricated. Every number has a citation.
Three structured outputs: AI Readiness Score, ROI Projections, Agent Deployment Plan.
The AI Readiness Score (0–100) measures where agents create the most value, with a specific rationale — not “your team scores 72,” but “your team scores 72; sixty-three percent of design review approvals happen via informal Slack messages, making them invisible to automated tracking.”
ROI Projections include confidence intervals and the methodology behind them — auditable enough to take into a rate case filing. The Agent Deployment Plan ranks every recommendation by ROI-to-effort ratio, with timeline, dependencies, and risk factors.
Cortex doesn't deliver a PDF. He deploys agents and measures ROI in dollars, monthly.
When leadership approves an agent, Cortex configures it (trigger, logic, action, measurement), deploys it via Max’s API connections, monitors performance daily, measures before/after against the baseline, and translates impact into dollars.
Every agent’s logic is visible, editable, and auditable. The operations team can see exactly what the agent does, why it does it, and override it at any time. Critical for any industry that cares about audit trails — which is now most of them.
A consulting firm delivers a deck. A productivity tool delivers a dashboard. A generic AI tool delivers a chat thread. Cortex deploys agents that prove their value monthly.
- Indexed Aria's interview corpus47 interviews · 184 findings
- Cross-checked Max's process graph14k events/day · 7 systems
- Read company memory
- Drafting recommendation with citations
Unlike rigid BI tools, Cortex is designed not just to display dashboards, but to think, decide, and act — guided by the company's own institutional memory.
Every recommendation arrives with its strongest counter-argument.
Ask Cortex anything.
A conversational interface over your operation. Every answer comes with citations sourced to interview data, tool observations, or explicit benchmarks. Every answer can be drilled into. Every answer compounds as Aria and Max keep observing.
Below: three real questions, three real answers, citations visible. The closed-loop ROI strip shows what got deployed and what it’s capturing this month.
Monthly ROI Report
Per-agent performance, dollar savings, before/after metrics. Auto-generated, formatted for executive review or regulatory filing.
AI Readiness Score Dashboard
Updated weekly as Max observes new data and Aria conducts new interviews. Per-department, with the specific gap that's holding the score down.
Regulatory Filing Artifacts
For utilities, healthcare, financial services: rate case exhibits, PUC prudency files, FERC compliance evidence. Built from auditable data, not consulting decks.
The Company Brain is not a dashboard, a deck, or a PDF.
Cortex sits at a different point in the stack than every competitor. He’s the reasoning layer between raw operational data and reliable AI automation — the layer YC calls the Company Brain. Here’s how he differs from the products you already know.
Surfaces process inefficiencies as a dashboard. Captures roughly twenty percent of operational reality — the part inside the ERP. The dashboard sits in a meeting nobody reads.
Cortex synthesizes everything Aria heard and Max observed across the whole stack, then deploys agents that fix what it found. Not a dashboard. An operating system that runs.
Indexes documents and tickets so you can search them. Static answer to a static question. Doesn't reason, doesn't recommend, doesn't deploy.
Cortex reasons over a typed graph of how your company actually works, recommends agents ranked by ROI/effort, and deploys them with measurement. A reasoning engine, not an index.
Months of implementation. Requires data engineers and dedicated forward-deployed engineering teams. Built for $100M+ committed transformations.
Two-week deployment. No data engineering team required. Aria + Max do the data work; Cortex does the reasoning. Built for any company — not just F50.
Six humans on the ground for twelve weeks. Delivers a deck that sits on a shelf. Then they leave on month three.
Cortex doesn't leave. He deploys agents that prove their value every month and a Brain that compounds with every engagement. The consultant who stays.
Meet the other two.
Activate your Company Brain.
He never leaves. He never forgets. He compounds with every interview Aria runs and every signal Max observes. Connect on Monday. Brain by end of week two. ROI by the month.
