second brain · compiling…

Notes that think back.

Cortex indexes every note into a private graph and answers questions with citations to your own thinking. Retrieval-augmented memory — embeddings on device, nothing phoning home.

E2E encrypted · local embeddings · bring your own model

what did past-me decide about pricing?

You leaned annual-only for the pilot — monthlies stayed off “to keep the surface calm.”37

3 citations from your notes · 38 ms

Compiled by
The system

A graph that answers
in your own voice.

ask · cited · compiled

Plain question. Your answer.

No prompt engineering. Ask the way you'd ask a colleague who read everything you wrote.

where did I say pricing should live?
Inside the pitch, not the landing page — decided 03/122, reaffirmed after Ada's call5.
edge types

Three kinds of “related”

Semantic inferred
Temporal same week
Manual declared
capture

From terminal, tray, or thumb

$ cortex capture “ship the graph,
  hide the weights”
✓ indexed · 0.8s · 2 edges
$

Nothing leaves the device

Embeddings, graph, and answers are computed locally. Sync is encrypted and optional.

latency

38ms

p50 recall over 12,480 notes. Your graph answers before you finish blinking.

Three moves

Index. Ask. Compound.

// 01

Index everything you keep

Notes, PDFs, transcripts, bookmarks. Every save embeds itself and finds its neighbours in the graph — no tagging ritual.

12,480 notes · 31,061 edges
// 02

Ask in plain language

Questions walk the graph and return synthesized answers, every claim pinned to the note it came from.

p50 recall · 38 ms
// 03

Compound the answers

Every answer can be kept as a new note. Your second brain gets smarter at your specific life.

+317 derived notes / year
Voices

“Our research team lives in Cortex. The graph is the documentation.”

LW Dr. Lena WhitfieldPrincipal Investigator, Pallas Bio
Ready when you are

Ask your past self.

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