It’s time to break up with Backstage.
Stop babysitting an open‑source framework. Unlock the IDP results you always expected.
“Backstage is not a packaged service that you can use out of the box”
- Backstage FAQ
- Backstage FAQ
Backstage is a framework
If you can invest over 10,000+* engineering hours to build and maintain your IDP annually, then Backstage might be the right tool for you.
*5 FTEs for 1 year
You don’t build your own CRM, your own data center, your own version control – why build your own IDP?
What would you ship if you could get
10,000 hours back every year?
10% adoption can’t be the new normal
“The average Backstage adoption rate is stuck at 10%”
Head of Engineering
IDPs need to provide immediate value to get adoption
That’s why Cortex works for your whole engineering team.
Engineering Leaders
Understand productivity and bottlenecks
Platform Engineers
Deliver self-service experiences for developers
Developers
Get information in AI assistants with minimal context switching
SREs
Roll out automatic production readiness reviews
Security teams
Shift security left and improve security posture
Cortex delivers successful IDPs for everyone.
Not just those who can afford to burn money on an IDP initiative that goes nowhere.
Why the world’s best engineering teams choose Cortex instead
We help multiple Backstage adopters migrate to Cortex every month. Here’s why enterprises switch:
50+ vendor‑maintained integrations
Hosted & upgraded for you
Scorecards, initiatives, and DORA metrics – built in
Solves service ownership with AI
Your team focuses on investments unique to your organization
ROI in < 6 months*
Community plugins you own & patch
You patch frequently and bump every package, dealing with breaking changes as they come
DIY scorecards, reporting, notifications, and more
Manual ownership initiatives that end up out of date immediately, you never solve ownership
Your team has to learn Typescript, React, and Backstage just to keep it running
6‑12 months just to launch the MVP
*Forrester report
Customers who switched to Cortex
Join these happy customers who migrated from Backstage — whose IDPs are now mission critical, not a never-ending Backstage initiative.
