A play is a pre-built piece of business thinking: a forecast, a diagnostic, a prioritization, a document. Instead of prompting from scratch, you run a play and get a consistent, reviewable result.
The library
Open Plays from the Cortex station (or press C). The library spans 15 domains - strategy, revenue, marketing, delivery, people, hiring, finance, operations, product, customer success, pricing, automation, documentation, and more - and is filterable by role, so a CEO, CFO, head of sales, or ops lead each see their shelf first.
Industry packs tailor plays to specific business types: development and design agencies, recruitment, consulting, e-commerce, SaaS, legal and accounting practices, and others.
Play maturity
Each play is labeled by how it runs:
- ›Live - backed by a real detector or engine reading your data continuously.
- ›Chat - a canonical, tuned prompt with retrieval over your data.
- ›Roadmap - not built yet; running it registers your interest and helps prioritize development.
Running a play
Select a play and Cortex may ask one or two clarifying questions (scope, time period, threshold), then runs. Small plays answer inline; substantial ones produce a deliverable you can review and share. Plays that would change data route through approvals.
Scheduling
Any play worth running weekly is worth automating: add it to Autopilot and it runs on schedule, with results in your digest.
Tip: Start with one play per department that answers a question you already ask weekly. A play that replaces a recurring meeting agenda item pays for itself immediately.