Cortex
Not a chatbot. Not a dashboard. The supervisor: it reads state, finds what changed, asks the question that changes the decision, models options, compiles missions, and brings you exactly the judgments that need you.
Mechanism
You
Should we raise prices for the pilot?
Cortex
Recommendation: raise the pilot price 10%, with a grandfather clause for the first five customers.
Citations: 7 of 12 interviews support price tolerance at this level.
Confidence: moderate — based on a small, self-selected sample.
Expected consequence: some early-pilot churn risk; net revenue likely up.
Proposed action: draft pricing decision for your approval — L2.
Cost estimate: 2 credits.
Every consequential answer carries its evidence, its uncertainty, and its next step.
What Cortex is not
Not a second brand — there is no “Work AI” separate from this. Not the Business World Model — Cortex supervises and speaks; the model predicts. The seam is shown, not hidden. Not staff — it can’t be; see the Agent Fleet for why.
Worked example
Control
Cortex reads state and supervises every other station in the loop.