Cortex Platform Walkthrough

Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform

Jul 13, 2026

In this video, Becka gives a guided tour of Cortex, the Engineering Operations Platform that runs mission control for your AI software factory. Learn how to centralize visibility, clarify ownership, and automate standards across your entire software ecosystem.

What we cover:
Why Cortex: Cortex is where engineering leaders run mission control for the AI software factory: the visibility, intelligence, and controls to keep teams shipping fast without letting accelerated output turn into accumulated risk to reliability, security, and cost.

Engineering Homepage: A single pane of glass for on-call schedules, PRs, and action items.

Service Catalog: Your source of truth for every service, library, and team—integrated with 50+ tools.

Context Graph: Automatically discover and map your entire engineering ecosystem into a connected knowledge layer that powers smarter automation, sharper agents, and faster humans.

Scorecards: How to automate production readiness, security compliance, and service maturity (no more manual audits!).

Initiatives & Reporting: Tracking migrations and DORA metrics with real-time data.

Workflows & Golden Paths: Automating service scaffolding and infrastructure provisioning to reduce developer friction.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro: Why Cortex?

1:03 The Engineering Homepage: Personalized visibility

2:22 The Catalog & Integrations: Centralizing ownership and data

2:45 The Cortex Context Graph

3:05 Ownership as the foundation for engineering excellence

3:36 Scorecards: Defining and enforcing standards

4:58 Initiatives: Tracking org-wide progress

5:27 Metrics & Dashboards: DORA and operational health