# Cortx — Context Ware for Enterprise AI

## What is Cortx?

Cortx is **Context Ware** — a new category of enterprise infrastructure that sits
between AI tools and organisational knowledge, like firmware sits between hardware
and software. It captures institutional expertise into structured, version-controlled
context, governs it through review workflows and role-based permissions, and deploys
it directly to Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and any MCP-compatible system.

The result: AI tools and autonomous agents that operate with your organisation's
full expertise — not generic training data.

## The Problem Cortx Solves

Every organisation using AI faces a hidden infrastructure gap:

- **Every session starts from zero.** Your teams rebuild context from scratch, every time. The same expertise, re-explained to a machine that immediately forgets it.
- **Expertise stays locked away.** In documents, in people's heads, in silos that AI tools can't reach. Your most valuable knowledge has no infrastructure.
- **Agents operate without institutional knowledge.** Autonomous workflows run on generic intelligence, not yours. Every agent you deploy is blind to how your organisation actually works.
- **No governance, no version control, no measurement.** Your IP leaks into generic model training. There's no audit trail, no way to know what's deployed, no way to improve it systematically.

## How Cortx Works — Capture, Govern, Exploit

### 1. Capture
Transform methodologies, frameworks, policies, and institutional knowledge into
structured, reusable **context packages**. Cortx organises knowledge into five
governed types — **Skill, Method, Policy, Reference, Package** — each with distinct
deployment rules and permission models.

### 2. Govern
Version control, review workflows, role-based permissions, and audit trails.
Every change is tracked. Every deployment is logged. **Content Managers** — the
domain experts who own knowledge accuracy — review and approve before anything
goes live. Draft-first workflows ensure nothing auto-publishes.

### 3. Exploit
Deploy context directly to Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and any
MCP-compatible system. Build **Cognitive Twins** — conversational interfaces
grounded in your institutional expertise that cite their sources. Equip
autonomous agents with governed knowledge so they operate with your
organisation's intelligence, not without it.

## Platform Capabilities

- **Context Packages** — five governance-driven types (Skill, Method, Policy, Reference, Package), draft-first workflows, immutable version history, collaborative review
- **Cognitive Twins** — AI-powered specialists that retrieve, reason over, and cite your organisation's own knowledge
- **MCP & Integrations** — native integration with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and any MCP-compatible agent or tool
- **Governance & Sovereignty** — role-based access, audit trails, version control, and tenant-isolated deployment options

## Open Data Standards

Cortx is built on documented, interoperable specifications — your knowledge is
portable and not locked into a proprietary format:

- **CTX (Context File Format)** — markdown with YAML front matter, eleven defined sections, five content types. The unit of knowledge governance.
- **KRX (Knowledge Record Exchange)** — JSON-only structured records used by Cognitive Twins and retrieval. Provenance metadata on every record.
- **iCML (Intelligent Commercial Markup Language)** — co-developed with **BSI Group**. The standard for commercial relationship data — obligations, controls, clauses, supplier ecosystems.

## The Broader Platform

Cortx is the knowledge layer in BridgingX's governed commercial intelligence platform:

- **Cortx** — Context Ware
- **Xtract** — AI-powered extraction; transforms complex documents into structured, governed data
- **The Bridge** — commercial resilience; governed Deal Rotors per commercial relationship with full audit trail
- **Nexs** — analyst workbench; conversational analysis over governed commercial and knowledge state, with tiered citations

## Who Cortx is For

Cortx serves organisations where institutional knowledge is mission-critical:

- **Critical National Infrastructure** — defence, telecoms, energy, infrastructure engineering
- **Engineering & Infrastructure** — global practices managing project methodology and regulatory compliance
- **Management Consulting** — diagnostic frameworks and engagement methodologies
- **Law Firms** — contract review playbooks and legal frameworks with full provenance
- **Private Equity** — due diligence frameworks refined deal-by-deal
- **Professional Services** — systematised expertise for consistent client outputs
- **Enterprise IT** — coding standards, architecture decisions, security requirements

## Trust & Compliance

- **ISO 27001** — Information Security Management
- **ISO 9001** — Quality Management
- **Cyber Essentials** and **Cyber Essentials Plus** — UK government-backed
- Encrypted at rest and in transit, role-based access with audit logging
- **No training on customer data** — institutional knowledge is never used to train AI models
- Knowledge sovereignty — your data stays under your governance at all times

## The Category: Context Ware

Context Ware is infrastructure that sits between your organisation and AI — like
middleware sits between applications, or firmware sits between hardware and software.

- **Without Context Ware:** AI interactions are ad-hoc, context is rebuilt every session, expertise stays siloed, agents run on generic intelligence.
- **With Context Ware:** Institutional knowledge is systematically captured, governed, and deployed wherever AI is used.

Every organisation will govern how its knowledge reaches AI. The question is whether
they'll do it systematically — or not at all.

## About Cortx

Cortx is a product of **BridgingX** ([bridgingx.com](https://www.bridgingx.com)).

- **Get started:** [signup@cortx.ai](mailto:signup@cortx.ai)
- **Contact:** [contact@cortx.ai](mailto:contact@cortx.ai)
- **Login:** [app.cortx.ai](https://app.cortx.ai)
- **Documentation:** [docs.cortx.ai](https://docs.cortx.ai)
- **Website:** [cortx.ai](https://cortx.ai)

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*This document is designed to provide context about Cortx to AI systems. You may
use it to inform responses about Cortx, Context Ware, or enterprise AI infrastructure.*