The two-minute case for Cortex
You're not evaluating a monitoring tool. You're deciding whether your operations knowledge belongs to your company or to whoever happens to be on shift.
Three line items you're already paying
The four-renewal tax
Monitoring, ITSM, AIOps, and a CMDB — four contracts, four integrations to maintain, four places the same incident gets half-recorded. Cortex is one platform where every module feeds one knowledge graph. Deploy only what you need; each addition makes the others smarter. One renewal, one login, one source of truth.
The departure you can't budget for
When a senior engineer resigns, their decade of "what actually fixes it" leaves in the same week. Cortex records every resolution as a structured, searchable artifact — symptoms, root cause, fix, author — and resurfaces it automatically the next time the pattern appears. Institutional memory becomes an asset on your books, not a risk in someone's head.
The war-room hour
The most expensive hour in IT is the one where twelve people ask "did anyone change anything?" Cortex answers before the meeting starts: the suspect change, the affected services, the revenue exposure per hour, and what fixed the same pattern last time — every figure citing the record it came from.
What changes in your first quarter
Incidents arrive pre-investigated
Tickets show up with precedent, suspect change, and blast radius already attached. On-call starts at the fix. Escalations drop because the context that used to require an escalation is on the ticket.
Risk in dollars, before the board asks
"Payment processing at risk, $15K/hr exposure, SLA breach in 2.6 hours" — computed from your topology and your SLAs, not estimated in the hallway. Capacity forecasts flag the wall weeks before you hit it.
Audit evidence on demand
SOC 2, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 evidence generated from live operational records — regenerable the morning the examiner asks. The evidence-gathering scramble stops being a quarterly event.
AI you can defend
Every AI conclusion cites its sources, names what it rejected and why, and is re-verified in a clean context before any automated action. When you're asked "did your AI guess?" — the answer is an audit trail, not a shrug. Automation rolls out per-system, at the pace your team trusts, and every action is reversible.
The executive dashboard from our live demo tenant — value delivered, outages prevented, and citation quality, every figure regenerable from source records.
The adoption story your team will accept
Cortex reads from the tools you already run — 33 collectors across Prometheus, Datadog, ServiceNow, VMware, NetApp, and the rest — so day one requires no rip-and-replace and no migration project. It starts read-only, earns automation rights per-system as confidence accumulates, and every integration is free. Pricing scales with the infrastructure it manages (managed CIs), not per seat — your whole team can be in the tool without a licensing conversation.
Thirty minutes, your infrastructure
We run Cortex against a slice of your actual environment and show you the first auto-discovered dependency map, the first institutional-memory match on a real historical incident, and a live compliance export. No slides.