Substrate Cortex
Coming SoonAutonomous AI agent swarms that operate on your knowledge layer. They read it, write to it, and act on it, calling humans only when the system provably cannot proceed without them.
AI that works while you don't.
Autonomous Work
Specialised AI agent teams pick up tasks, execute them, and write results back to the knowledge layer. No prompting required. Work initiates itself.
Human When Needed
Agents only escalate to humans when they provably cannot proceed alone. Every request is scoped, specific, and includes what was already tried. Your time is treated as the most expensive resource.
Knowledge-Grounded
Every agent reads from and writes to the same knowledge layer your team uses. No hallucinated context. No stale data. Agents and humans share one truth.
A self-driving workforce, grounded in your knowledge.
Email, messages, documents, code changes, meeting notes
Structured, embedded, continuously distilled
Agent swarms read, act, write back
Receive scoped requests. Approve high-stakes decisions. Stay in control.
Three domains. One shared intelligence.
Software Swarm
Code generation, architecture reviews, testing, deployment, and security analysis. Every change is tested. Every decision is logged to the knowledge layer.
- Writes and runs tests automatically
- Architecture decisions recorded as knowledge
- Security reviews on sensitive code paths
Strategy Swarm
Market research, competitive intelligence, goal planning, and risk analysis. Every conclusion cites its sources. Reasoning chains are preserved.
- Competitive intel updated continuously
- Identifies goal gaps and initiates work
- Confidence-scored strategic findings
Marketing Swarm
Content creation, campaign planning, SEO analysis, and analytics review. Brand consistency enforced. Public content requires human approval.
- SEO recommendations backed by data
- Campaign plans with measurable targets
- Human gate on all public-facing content
The Cortex reads and writes the same knowledge layer your team does.
Substrate Cortex is not a standalone product. It extends Substrate. Agent swarms operate on the same structured, embedded, contradiction-aware knowledge your organisation already maintains. When an agent writes a finding, your team sees it. When your team makes a decision, agents learn from it.
Shared truth
Agents query the same knowledge layer your team uses. Strategic conclusions are always human-reviewed. Agents cannot promote their own findings to organisational intelligence.
Compounding returns
Every human decision becomes a precedent. Over time, agents need fewer human inputs for the same categories of work. The system learns by accumulating decisions.
Engineered for trust, not just speed.
No Central Controller
No single brain bottleneck. Agents coordinate through shared state, not a master orchestrator. Complexity emerges from simple rules.
Earned Trust
Agent reputation is computed from verified outcomes, never self-declared. Agents that deliver earn more responsibility. Poor results reduce scope.
Clean Handoffs
When work is blocked, agents save their full state and shut down cleanly. A fresh agent picks up exactly where the last one stopped. No context decay.
Human Authority
Strategic conclusions always require human review. High-stakes and irreversible actions are hard-gated. The system cannot override human judgement.
An AI workforce that compounds with your knowledge.
Substrate Cortex is in active development. Join the waitlist to be notified when it's ready.