About Cortex
AI agents are powerful. Ungoverned, they're a liability.
We started Cortex after watching teams spend months debugging silent agent failures, unaudited tool calls, and unexplainable outputs. We believe every production AI system deserves a control tower — and so we built one.
Radical transparency
Every action an agent takes should be explainable. We build observability in from the ground up.
Human as governor
Agents are powerful tools, not autonomous actors. Humans must always be able to inspect, override, and govern.
Developer first
If the API isn't delightful to use, we haven't done our job. DX is a feature, not a footnote.
Meet the team
Maya Patel
Co-founder & CEO
Previously led AI infrastructure for a large-scale data platform. 10 years building distributed systems.
James Okonkwo
Co-founder & CTO
Former ML safety researcher focused on interpretability for agentic systems.
Sofia Chen
Head of Product
Previously PM for developer infrastructure products. Passionate about developer experience and AI tooling.
Ryo Tanaka
Lead Engineer
Open-source contributor in the agent orchestration space. Obsessed with real-time graph visualization.