Stuart Ross
Senior Engineering Manager
"Each of our large engineering-wide initiatives landed faster than the one before, setting a really high bar for us as a team."
3
engineering-wide initiatives, each faster than the last
50%
cycle time reduction
Initiatives
Your initiatives keep losing to this week's deadline
Migrations, framework upgrades, security remediations, and even your AI rollout: your most important, compounding engineering work keeps getting deprioritized to the feature shipping this week or the incident firing right now. Cortex tracks each initiative with a clear owner, live progress, and automation for the repetitive parts, so the work that matters finally finishes.
Initiatives stall when no one can see the full picture
Database upgrades, framework modernization, end-of-life dependency remediation – necessary, but painful. What's affected, who owns it, and how far along stay scattered across tools and stale spreadsheets. AI raises the stakes, since agent standards and governance are org-wide initiatives too.
Without one place to see it, the work stalls.
Today
Spreadsheets, unclear ownership, developers distracted by status requests, and initiatives that miss their deadlines.
With Cortex
Every affected service is automatically identified, owners get clear action items, and progress is tracked in real time.
From a spreadsheet nobody trusts to an initiative that gets completed on time
Cortex combines real-time visibility, automated standards, and self-service workflows and a leadership cadence so your team can plan, run, and close initiatives without the manual overhead.
Know what’s in scope and
who owns it, automatically
Cortex maps your services, APIs, and resources and keeps ownership current, so the moment an initiative starts you know what's in scope and who owns it. Even as agents spin up new services.
Turn the goal into a tracked
initiative with a real deadline
Define what "done" means as a Scorecard, attach a deadline and owners, and Cortex tracks every entity in real time. Progress rolls up from individual services, never averaged, so the one migration that's badly behind can't hide. Owners get action items where their work already lives.
Automate the repetitive steps
so the work actually gets done
Most initiatives stall on the same manual steps repeated across hundreds of services. Cortex Workflows package them into one-click self-service actions with the golden path built in, so developers and agents execute directly instead of waiting on a ticket.
Keep every initiative on leadership's radar, week after week
A migration three weeks behind pace won't fix itself between planning cycles. The DRIVE framework rolls every Tier 1 initiative into the same Operational Excellence review as delivery, reliability, security, and efficiency, so what's slipping gets a blocker cleared and an owner assigned.
How Skyscanner landed three engineering-wide initiatives, each faster than the last
Skyscanner managed hundreds of engineers, thousands of services, and dozens of initiatives on spreadsheets and Confluence tables nobody could keep current. With Cortex as a single source of truth, the team landed three engineering-wide initiatives, each faster than the last, and cut cycle time by 50% on a traveler-facing system.
Why engineering organizations run their initiatives on Cortex
- Identify every affected service and owner automatically
- Replace spreadsheet tracking with real-time Scorecard progress
- Action items delivered where developers already work
- Automate manual steps with self-service workflows
Your next initiatives don't have to stall
See how Cortex helps teams run migrations, platform rollouts, and AI initiatives to completion, with less coordination overhead and fewer developer interruptions.
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