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Your visual work brain

Less scattered.
More connected.

A clear home for your projects, notes and next steps.
Capture the thought. See the connections. Move work forward.

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Private by default Connects to ChatGPT & Claude Capture on the go
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A little clarity goes a long way

Everything is coming together.

All in one place
Project in focusIn progress

Website launch

From the first idea to the final detail.

75%
Taking shape.

3 of 4 checklist items done

ALYou + your next big idea
Connected thinking

The context stays with the work.

Next steps1 remaining
Capture the brief
Connect the research
Agree on a direction
Bring it to life
That thought? Saved.

Ready when you are.

Ideas become notes. Notes become next steps.

The point of all this

Questions your tools can't answer today

Notes apps store text. Task apps store to-dos. Neither remembers how any of it fits together — so the moment you need the story behind a decision, you're scrolling chat history.

  • Where did this project stop, and why?
  • What am I waiting for, and from whom?
  • What did I decide six months ago — and what was the reasoning?
  • Which past project already solved this problem?
  • Everything for Acme that is still open?
  • What came out of Tuesday's meeting?

What's inside

One system, not eleven tabs

Each piece is useful on its own. Together they become something no single tool gives you: context that survives.

Infinite canvas

You arrange it. Drag projects, notes and tasks onto a boundless board and draw the connections yourself — links that are real data, not decoration.

The map draws itself

Cortex arranges it. Every link builds a picture of your whole workspace, and it points out notes that mention a project without being linked to it yet.

Ask your own notes

Ask what you decided about the warehouse in March. You get an answer drawn from your own material, with the notes it came from listed underneath.

Voice thoughts

Speak for three minutes on the way home. Cortex transcribes it, drafts a summary and suggests the tasks inside — and never overwrites your original words.

Connected notes

A proper writing surface with backlinks. Mention a project and it links itself, so every note knows what it belongs to.

Tasks three ways

The same work as a list, a board or a calendar. Drag between columns to change status, or across days to reschedule.

Also inside: filters that hold — tag anything client=Acme and a project passes it down to everything filed in it, so #client=Acme #stage=open is one search. Files with their contents searchable, saved emails included. Templates for the notes you write every week. And Decisions and Timeline, both switched off until you want them.

How it works

Capture now, organise never

The reason knowledge tools fail is that they ask you to file things while you're still thinking. Cortex doesn't.

Throw it in

Hit ⌘K anywhere, or the record button on your phone. Text, voice, a file, a half-formed idea — it all lands in your Inbox with no questions asked. Today's page is always open and always empty.

Let it suggest

Cortex reads what you captured and proposes: this looks like it belongs to Access Platform, there are two tasks in here, three older notes already mention this. You tap accept or ignore — nothing files itself behind your back.

See the shape of it

Open the canvas and your work is laid out in front of you: what's moving, what's stuck, and what each thing came from.

AI & MCP

Talk to your work brain from ChatGPT or Claude

Cortex runs a secure MCP server with fifteen tools behind eight separate permissions. The assistant you already use can do exactly what you allowed and nothing else.

Narrow on purpose

Permissions are granted one at a time, and they do not overlap. An assistant helping you run a course has no way to reach your notes. Revoke any of it in one click.

“What did I say about activity tracking?” notes:read
“Add Sara to the Power Apps course” training:write
“Read my notes” refused

Two separate switches

Who can see it and what AI can read are different questions, so Cortex keeps them as different settings. Your manager and your assistant do not share a permission.

Private brainstorm Nobody Your AI ✓
Team retrospective Workspace No AI
Salary discussion Nobody No AI

It runs on your own API keys, with a monthly ceiling you set — so the bill is yours to see and yours to cap. Nothing marked No AI is ever sent anywhere, including to summaries of itself.

Also inside

If you also run courses

A separate part of Cortex, for anyone who teaches as well as thinks. Ignore it entirely if you don't.

Courses, runs, and who was there

One syllabus, a new version each time you teach it, and a register you mark a day at a time — so "who missed day three?" has an answer. Export the roll to a spreadsheet whenever somebody asks.

Certificates that can be checked

Each one carries a serial an employer can verify on a public page, without an account. Attendance is recorded on the certificate as it stood the day it was issued, and one that is withdrawn says so rather than vanishing.

Install

Full power on desktop. Capture anywhere on your phone.

Cortex installs like an app on both. A thought spoken in a lift or a basement is held on your phone and sent the moment you have signal again.

iPhone & iPad

  1. Open Cortex in Safari
  2. Tap the Share button
  3. Choose Add to Home Screen

Android & desktop

  1. Open Cortex in Chrome or Edge
  2. Open the ⋮ menu
  3. Choose Install app

Stop re-explaining your own work.

Start with one project and one thought. The connections build themselves from there.

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