What is Cortex?
Cortex is the AI-powered Internal Developer Portal that helps engineering leaders enforce reliability standards automatically. Companies like H&R Block, Canva, and Skyscanner use Cortex to move fast without breaking things through maintaining production readiness, security, and quality at scale.
By connecting data across your engineering ecosystem, Cortex shows you exactly which teams meet your standards and which don't, then helps you close the gaps automatically.
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 rely on Cortex to understand which teams meet reliability standards and measure impact.
Platform teams enforce requirements automatically without becoming bottlenecks and developers depend on Cortex for self-service workflows and clear ownership.
By turning fragmented engineering data into shared visibility and coordinated action, Cortex aligns everyone around the same goal: move fast without sacrificing reliability.
How Cortex works
Cortex unifies information across your services, teams, and tools to give leaders and developers a shared understanding of what's working and what needs attention.
Its AI-powered analysis surfaces gaps, risks, and opportunities through Scorecards, Initiatives, and automated workflows. The result is a continuous improvement loop where data fuels insight, insight drives action, and every action makes your organization stronger and more reliable.
Why you need Cortex now
Engineering teams are moving faster than ever, especially with AI, and ensuring reliability is critical. Leaders struggle to maintain standards across growing organizations without slowing teams down. Without a unified platform to track readiness and enforce standards, gaps slip through. Services ship without proper observability. Dependencies go untracked. Incidents take longer to resolve.
Cortex gives you the foundation to scale reliability: see exactly where you stand, identify what's blocking progress, and give teams the tools to close gaps automatically. The organizations investing in this foundation now are the ones maintaining reliability at scale while competitors struggle.
How Cortex stands out
Traditional internal developer portals stop at visibility. Cortex goes further by connecting ownership, standards, and performance data so teams can see both what's happening and what to do about it.
With built-in Scorecards, Initiatives, and Engineering Intelligence, every team gets the context and tools to act. AI-powered insights, live reporting, and the Cortex MCP make it simple to identify gaps, measure impact, and continuously raise the bar. The result is an organization that doesn't just build faster software; it builds a stronger, more reliable engineering culture.
You’re ready for Cortex…
When speed and innovation alone aren’t enough. As AI reshapes how software is built, the challenge isn’t just moving faster, it’s staying reliable, secure, and scale. Cortex gives you the foundation to do both. By connecting data across your engineering ecosystem, Cortex helps teams ship more reliable software, faster while building the structure and accountability needed to adopt AI with confidence.
IDPs need to provide immediate value to get adoption
That’s why Cortex works for your whole engineering team.
Engineering leaders
Identify teams that meet your reliability standards, assess initiative impacts, and make data-driven decisions quickly.
Platform teams
Set requirements and enforce them. Automate migrations and workflows for faster team movement.
SRE teams
Enforce readiness, respond to incidents faster, and shift from reactive to proactive reliability.
Developers
Get context without leaving your IDE. See ownership, Scorecard gaps, and next steps directly in your workflow.
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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.”
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.”
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
Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are platforms that bring together all the information, tools, and standards engineers need to build and operate software effectively. They serve as the central hub for your engineering organization, connecting data across services, teams, and systems so developers can work faster and leaders can ensure reliability and compliance at scale. The best IDPs go beyond visibility to drive alignment, automate best practices, and create the foundation for continuous improvement across engineering.
