01The shift
Agents left the sandbox
Generative models stopped being chat toys and started taking actions — refunding customers, approving payouts, closing cases. The capability arrived years before the controls did.
About Cortex
We put enterprise AI under air-traffic control.
Cortex AI OS is the operating system for governed AI agents. We exist to make agents safe to run in regulated work — every run gated, every decision provable, every action auditable. Built by a team from regulated-software and AI-infrastructure backgrounds.
Aligned with EU AI Act · NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001
Cortex AI OS
one governed control plane · did:cortex
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Govern
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Our mission
Make agentic AI accountable by default.
Enterprises don't have an AI-capability problem anymore — they have an AI-accountability problem. Our mission is to give every autonomous run an identity, a budget, a policy, a human checkpoint, and a receipt, so that powerful agents can do real work inside the rules your auditors already enforce.
The principle
Deny is the default. Before any agent acts, the request passes the same chain of gates — identity, budget, guardrails, registry, control-tower, policy, oversight, audit. A blocked run returns a real verdict, not a silent failure:
403 · identity402 · budget cap451 · guardrail409 · oversight hold200 · executed + receipt
Why governed agents
The capability arrived before the controls.
Cortex started from a simple observation: AI got good enough to act, but the enterprise had no way to govern what it did. So we built the spine, not another bot.
02The gap
Pilots had no audit trail
Teams scaled past pilots with no agent identity, no budget cap, no policy gate, and no kill switch — exactly the exposure the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF were written to close.
03The answer
Put every agent under air-traffic control
So we built the operating spine instead of another bot builder: a fail-closed runtime where every run is gated, every decision is provable, and every action lands in a tamper-evident ledger.
What we believe
Four principles we won't compromise.
Fail-closed, always
Safety is the default state, not a setting. If a gate can't prove a run is allowed, it denies it — with a real status code and a logged reason, never a silent pass.
Provable, not promised
Every claim must trace to its source. Outcomes carry signed, hash-chained receipts and a 10-hop provenance graph you can verify offline and hand to an auditor.
Human in command
Autonomy is a dial with a floor. Operators can pause a single agent or the whole fleet from one screen — the kill switch is a first-class control, not an afterthought.
Built for the regulated
We design for the hardest rooms first — financial services, healthcare, the public sector — and map every control to the frameworks your reviewers already use.
The operating spine
One runtime, end to end.
Cortex is a single governed control plane — not a scattering of point tools. The console, the runtime gates, the services, and the ledger are layers of one operating system for enterprise AI.
Build
- No-code Agent Studio
- Behavior & guardrails
- Knowledge & RAG
- Agent marketplace
Govern
- Policy-as-Code
- Action Fabric
- Agent IAM
- Oversight modes
- MCP gateway
Observe
- Monitoring & insights
- Evaluation & simulation
- Reliability score
- Trust Ledger & provenance
Distribute
- Solution studio
- Signed Solution Packs
- Pack registry
- Certification
40+Governed capabilities in one runtime
8-gateFail-closed chain on every run
10-hopProvenance from human to outcome
100Live-verified run quality score
Who we are
A team that has shipped software auditors trust.
Cortex is built by engineers and operators from regulated-software and AI-infrastructure backgrounds — people who have stood in front of a SOC 2 auditor, a model-risk committee, and a regulator, and lived to ship again.
Regulated-software DNA
Backgrounds in financial-services, healthcare, and public-sector platforms where every action already needs an owner, a reason, and a record.
AI-infrastructure depth
Hands-on with multi-provider model ops, evaluation, retrieval, and the operational realities of running LLMs at scale.
Operator-first
We build for the person who has to answer for the fleet at 2am — so the controls are obvious, the verdicts are honest, and the audit is one export away.
Want to build the operating spine for enterprise AI with us? See open conversations.
Security & compliance
We pass the enterprise security review.
Fail-closed gates, RBAC, DLP, agent detection & response, and multi-tenant isolation — built for and aligned with the frameworks your auditors already use, never claimed as more than that.
SOC 2ISO 27001ISO 42001HIPAAGDPREU AI ActNIST AI RMFFINRA
Run agents. Keep control.
See why governance-first teams put their agents under air-traffic control with Cortex.