What is Cortex?
Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that helps organizations continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. With centralized visibility, clear ownership, automated Scorecards, and golden paths, we help engineering organizations operate as one.
Our customers – from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises – create a culture of engineering excellence, reducing incidents by 30% and improving MTTR by 50%, all while making it easier for developers to focus on building.
Where Cortex fits
Cortex sits at the center of your engineering organization, connecting every team, tool, and process into a single source of truth.
Engineering leaders use Cortex to understand operational maturity and measure impact. Platform teams, SREs, and security engineers enforce standards without becoming bottlenecks. Developers get self-service workflows, clear ownership, and the context they need to move fast.
By unifying engineering data across 50+ integrations, from GitHub and PagerDuty to Datadog and Jira, Cortex turns fragmented information into shared visibility and coordinated action.
How Cortex works
Cortex creates a continuous improvement loop that makes your engineering organization stronger over time.
First, it centralizes your data, automatically mapping services, dependencies, and ownership using AI across your entire engineering stack. Then, it unlocks insights through Engineering Intelligence and Scorecards that surface gaps, risks, and opportunities. Finally, it drives improvement by making best practices and golden paths easy to adopt and measure through Initiatives and Workflows.
Why you need Cortex now
Code is no longer the bottleneck. Everything else is.
With AI making it easier to write code than ever, engineering teams are shipping faster, but processes, standards, and visibility are struggling to keep up.
The organizations that win in this new era won't be the ones writing the most code. They'll be the ones who build a strong Engineering Operations muscle, continuously improving how they work, not just what they ship.
Cortex gives you the foundation to scale operational excellence: centralize engineering data, unlock insights, and give teams the tools to continuously improve.
You’re ready for Cortex…
if you have more engineering complexity than can be managed in a spreadsheet.
You're ready when you're asking questions like: "Who owns that service?" "Why is incident response taking so long?" "Are we actually ready for this launch?" "How does our reliability compare across teams?"
You're especially ready if AI is reshaping how you build. The challenge isn't just moving faster, it's maintaining reliability, security, and operational maturity at scale. Cortex gives you the foundation to do both.
Cortex works for your whole engineering team to drive forward operational excellence
Empowering world-class engineering teams
Join leading teams using Cortex to drive engineering initiatives
Amanda Jackson
Technical Program Manager, Rapid7
“Walk away from a spreadsheet for a minute, and it’s already stale. With Cortex, we never have that issue. I can just trust that information is always up to date, and we can leave devs alone that have already done what they need to do.”
Mark Dunlop
Head of Engineering Experience
Hariprasad Babu
Manager Technology
“Cortex gets rid of the repetitive manual work so you can focus on the innovative feature development that drives real value.”
Sven Diebold
Manager of Platform Engineering
"Cortex gives us the clarity and control we need to meet our goals without slowing down. It’s helped us move faster and build correctly from the start, and become an essential part of how we operate in a lot of different ways."
Egor Kalinichev
Engineering Manager
"This is the angle we look at Cortex from right now. We can utilize it so much more and improve the developer experience so much more. So that's what we're going for."
Javier de Vega Ruiz
Chief Software Engineer
"One of the biggest improvements we've seen since implementing Cortex is in our Mean Time to Restore- which we reduced by 67%. Being able to quickly find service information is a small operational change that has enormous impact."
Joshua Marble
Manager of Developer Experience
“Cortex shaped how we deliver software. It gave us a foundation to move faster and build the right way from day one.”
Shaun McCormick
Principal Software Engineer
“We know if an engineer gets pulled out of what they’re doing, it takes 30 minutes to re-engage, Cortex lets us reduce noise and keep our team focused on the highest priority work.”
Nick Raccioppi
Engineering Leader
"With custom plugins in Cortex, developers don’t need to wait for infrastructure configurations anymore. It’s fully automated."
Franz Hemmer
Principal Software Engineer
"With Cortex, we’re not just managing services better; we’re fundamentally changing the way we work and collaborate to support the healthcare organizations who rely on us every day."
Amanda Jackson
Technical Program Manager, Rapid7
“Walk away from a spreadsheet for a minute, and it’s already stale. With Cortex, we never have that issue. I can just trust that information is always up to date, and we can leave devs alone that have already done what they need to do.”
Mark Dunlop
Head of Engineering Experience
Hariprasad Babu
Manager Technology
“Cortex gets rid of the repetitive manual work so you can focus on the innovative feature development that drives real value.”
Sven Diebold
Manager of Platform Engineering
"Cortex gives us the clarity and control we need to meet our goals without slowing down. It’s helped us move faster and build correctly from the start, and become an essential part of how we operate in a lot of different ways."
Egor Kalinichev
Engineering Manager
"This is the angle we look at Cortex from right now. We can utilize it so much more and improve the developer experience so much more. So that's what we're going for."
Javier de Vega Ruiz
Chief Software Engineer
"One of the biggest improvements we've seen since implementing Cortex is in our Mean Time to Restore- which we reduced by 67%. Being able to quickly find service information is a small operational change that has enormous impact."
Joshua Marble
Manager of Developer Experience
“Cortex shaped how we deliver software. It gave us a foundation to move faster and build the right way from day one.”
Shaun McCormick
Principal Software Engineer
“We know if an engineer gets pulled out of what they’re doing, it takes 30 minutes to re-engage, Cortex lets us reduce noise and keep our team focused on the highest priority work.”
Nick Raccioppi
Engineering Leader
"With custom plugins in Cortex, developers don’t need to wait for infrastructure configurations anymore. It’s fully automated."
Franz Hemmer
Principal Software Engineer
"With Cortex, we’re not just managing services better; we’re fundamentally changing the way we work and collaborate to support the healthcare organizations who rely on us every day."
FAQs
Engineering Operations (EngOps) is the discipline of continuously improving how your engineering organization works.
Think of it like Sales Ops or Marketing Ops, but for engineering. Sales Ops focuses on the systems, processes, and visibility that make the whole sales organization more effective. EngOps does the same for engineering: reducing friction, enforcing best practices, and giving leaders the data they need to make good decisions at scale.
As engineering orgs grow, and as AI generates more code faster, the operational layer becomes the real bottleneck. EngOps is how leading teams solve that.
