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Easily & quickly bring all your data into Cortex with the Axon Framework

With over 50 built-in integrations, Cortex customers have an always-up-to-date, single interface for their engineering priorities, tools, and tasks. But large organizations have a lot of tools. And if you're running internally hosted tools, or for policy or security reasons would prefer to keep your access tokens private, that used to limit what was possible in your internal developer. Not anymore.

Introducing Entity Relationships: Define your data model

Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Entity Relationships, a powerful new capability that gives you more flexibility and control over the data model in your IDP. By allowing you to create custom relationships between entities in your catalog, you can model your internal developer portal to accurately reflect your own organization’s taxonomy, letting you better answer deep questions about your environments, releases, packages, and beyond.

Solve service ownership in minutes with Cortex's AI prediction model

Today marks an exciting milestone not just for Cortex, but for every organization looking to foster a culture of engineering excellence. Knowing who owns what is one of the hardest and most important challenges for engineering teams. Without clear ownership, incidents take longer to resolve, migrations stall, and enforcing standards becomes nearly impossible.

Platform Engineering with a Product Management Mindset: 10x Your Developer Experience - Jabed Amin

In this 5-minute session, Jabed Amin, Developer Relations at Cortex.io, will explain how platform engineers can enhance their impact by treating their Internal Developer Portal as a product. By understanding internal customers’ needs, prioritizing features, and ensuring a seamless developer experience, platform engineers can 10x their team’s productivity. Join us to discover how adopting this mindset can transform your platform engineering efforts into a high-impact, developer-centric initiative that empowers your teams and drives organizational success.

Cortex Recognized by Gartner as Representative Vendor in the 2025 Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals

Gartner Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals offers “Platform engineering teams are tasked with improving developer experience, ensuring consistent governance, and enabling discovery and access to software development and delivery capabilities. Platform engineering leaders can use internal developer portals to address these challenges.” Organizations with a current Gartner license can check out the report here.

Meet the Cortex Founders

What’s it like to build the future at Cortex? In this video, our founders share what makes Cortex a unique place to work—from our builder-first culture to the high-impact problems we’re solving every day. We’re a team that moves fast, supports each other, and is deeply committed to raising the bar for developer experience across the industry. At Cortex, you’ll find a culture that values autonomy, creativity, and a shared drive to push boundaries. We’re building tools that help some of the world’s top engineering teams ship faster and more confidently—and we’re just getting started.

Leveraging an IDP for Navigating Staff Changes: Onboarding and Layoffs

Change is constant in engineering organizations. Whether you’re growing quickly and onboarding dozens of engineers—or navigating the difficult process of layoffs—your systems, services, and institutional knowledge don’t pause. That’s where an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) becomes indispensable.

When Readiness Really Matters: How Seasonal Spikes Become the Catalyst for Long-Term Discipline

Every engineering leader knows the stress of an upcoming seasonal spike. Whether it’s tax season, open enrollment, or Black Friday, there’s always that moment where someone says, “Are we actually ready?” It’s usually followed by a scramble: auditing services, chasing down owners, updating spreadsheets, running perf tests, checking alerting thresholds, verifying infra configs—much of it manual, fragmented, and slightly different every time. It’s exhausting.