Cortex

Cortex builds an AI-powered Internal Developer Portal designed to act as a central brain for engineering organizations. The platform automatically catalogs services, tracks service ownership and architecture, and enforces reliability standards across teams - work that has become acute for companies running large microservices estates. Its technical scope spans AI/ML, developer tooling, software cataloguing, reliability engineering and the management of distributed systems architectures.

The product line centres on the Cortex Internal Developer Portal, which connects data across the engineering ecosystem and drives action through automated workflows. Supporting components include a Service Catalog that inventories thousands of services per customer; Production Readiness Scoring, which assesses services against reliability standards; and Automated Workflows, which handle tasks from new-engineer onboarding to the safe rollout of AI coding assistants. Reported outcomes include a 30% reduction in incidents and a 50% cut in mean time to resolution (MTTR), with onboarding times reduced to hours rather than weeks.

Cortex was founded by engineers who encountered the complexity of microservices firsthand at companies including Uber and Twilio. The stated focus of the company is on removing toil and engineering chaos so that engineers can concentrate on high-impact work. Customers named publicly include Canva, Grammarly and Skyscanner. The company operates in the developer tools and DevOps segment, serving organisations with microservices architectures. Further details, including founding year, team size and funding, are not published.