Automotive
Energy & Utilities
Information Technology
Government
Legal Services
Manufacturing
Professional Services
Retail
Wholesale
01
Enterprise grade
Role-based access, audit logging, encryption in transit and at rest, and a dedicated instance per customer. Built to scale horizontally and fail over, from a one-seat start to a national enterprise.
The Enterprise AI Brain for real work
Too much information.
Not enough intelligence.
Neocortex is the master orchestrator: an intelligence layer that maps your people, knowledge, systems, relationships and workflows into one connected context — then coordinates AI, software and humans to turn complexity into action.
Everything is mapped.Everything is connected.Boundaries are respected.
Be in the driver’s seat of your organisation’s AI transformation.
Neocortex gives you the intelligence, orchestration and control to lead the transformation — rather than hand your organisation over to another AI platform.
The operator advantage
Be in the driver’s seat of your organisation’s AI transformation.
See what is happening, decide what matters, delegate the work and keep the final say. Neocortex is built to make AI transformation something you lead — not something that happens to you.
40 integrations + 1,500+ via Composio Provider-agnostic AI Collaborative AI workspace Governed agentic automation Australian hosting available Case study: +10% gross profit margin
Email
Calendar
Invoicing
Tasks
Files
Chat
Selected clients
Digital platforms for a few users, and for millions.
Boutique firms and global brands, public sector and private: the same discipline of architecture, delivery and judgement now sits behind Neocortex.
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Industries
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Why Neocortex exists
I built it because nothing else could do what I needed.
I’m Peter Bardenhagen, an AI solution architect in Brisbane. I needed one governed platform where people and AI could run the work together: quotes to cash, knowledge, clients and projects. Nothing on the market could do all of it and still be something an enterprise could trust, host and own.
So I built it. Its key installable app, Quote to Revenue CRM & ERP, suits many businesses and professional services in particular. I also see a real gap in the market for an enterprise-grade AI platform that does all of this. It has to be five things.
02
Flexible hosting
Self-hosted, in your data centre, hybrid, or in your own Azure, AWS or Google Cloud tenancy. Or our managed cloud in Australia. You choose, and you can change your mind.
03
Your models, your way
Use several AI providers through one router, or run models on the box inside your own data centre so no prompt ever leaves your network.
04
Australian data governance
Data residency in Australia is available for the application, database, files, backups and AI inference. So is data sovereignty, where you run it on infrastructure you control.
05
Built to meet Australian obligations
Privacy by design, least-privilege access and audit trails give you controls you can map to the Australian Privacy Principles, the ACSC Essential Eight and ISO/IEC 27001 control themes.
Meeting the Australian Privacy Principles and cyber security standards is a responsibility each organisation carries. Neocortex gives you the controls and supports your own assessments and penetration tests. It is not certified to any standard, and we don’t claim otherwise.
Latest platform capabilities
From enterprise search to governed digital workers.
Neocortex now combines the strongest patterns from modern enterprise AI platforms with an operating layer for actually running the business: permission-aware context, identifiable agents, proactive triggers, governed execution and measurable outcomes.
Architecture
Scroll to unravel the Neocortex.
From the outside it is one calm workspace. Underneath are six layers — each doing one job, each replaceable, all governed together. Keep scrolling to take it apart.
The master orchestrator
The world has TMI.
Neocortex makes sense of it.
Everything is mapped. Everything is connected. Neocortex orchestrates context, intelligence and action across the systems you already use — while explicit trust boundaries determine what can be seen, shared and changed.
Map
Build a living context graph of people, systems, knowledge, relationships, time and activity.
Understand
Bring the right context together so AI and people can reason about the whole picture.
Orchestrate
Coordinate agents, software, workflows and humans instead of creating another silo.
Act
Turn decisions into governed actions with permissions, approvals, provenance and an audit trail.
Everything is mapped. Not everything is exposed.
Personal, business and shared contexts can coexist inside one cortex with explicit ownership and permission boundaries.
Take the wheel
Your AI transformation.
Your decisions.
You should not need to become an AI engineer, prompt engineer or systems integrator just to know what your organisation is doing. Neocortex brings the signals together, explains what matters, coordinates the next move and keeps consequential actions under your control.
See the whole picture
Connect the systems, people, knowledge and activity that matter without forcing everything into one application.
Choose what happens next
Use AI to analyse, recommend and coordinate — while you set the policies, permissions, budgets and approvals.
Make transformation continuous
Turn one-off AI projects into an operating capability that learns from your organisation and compounds over time.
Product
Everything is Neocortex. All at once.
Neocortex maps the world around the work — people, organisations, knowledge, money, projects, relationships, events, decisions and actions — into a shared intelligence fabric. It connects the context without collapsing the boundaries: connection does not mean permission.
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Quotes
Payables
Activity
62%
88%
40%
71%
55%
Enterprise AI Brain
A persistent intelligence layer across your systems, knowledge, workflows and people.
Collaborative AI
People and AI work in the same shared workspace, with delegation, live activity, versions, comments and approvals.
AI Conductor
Search, reason, retrieve context and orchestrate actions without making AI the only source of truth.
Quotes & Invoicing
Connect proposed work, ongoing agreements and billing into one traceable commercial flow.
Projects & Agents
Turn work into structured execution with tasks, agents, review and an auditable activity trail.
Agentic Workflow Builder
Turn a business or development requirement into a reviewable workflow, then execute it through governed automation such as n8n and Composio.
Trust Fabric
Apply policy at the tool boundary so AI actions are allowed, require approval or denied, with evidence recorded for consequential work.
Second Brain
A semantic knowledge layer that makes your documents, notes and operating context available to the system.
Client Portal
Give clients a focused, authenticated view of the work, commercial records and shared information that matters to them.
Live product concept
Watch context become action.
Neocortex continuously connects signals from your operating stack, surfaces what matters and gives you a controlled path to act.
NEOCORTEX / CONDUCTOR
LIVEConductor insight
3 client messages need attention
SIGNALMicrosoft 365
Reason + retrieve
Review + act
RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPREADY
Review the relevant context, confirm the proposed action, then execute through the connected system.
01
Context
One connected view of the work
02
Intelligence
AI grounded in your operating data
03
Action
Move from insight to controlled execution
Ready to connect the dots?
Start with one real workflow.
Second Brain + Agentic Intelligence
Memory gives every persona the context to do better work.
See how Neocortex moves from memory to reasoning to action — combining your Second Brain with personas, skills, tools and governed workflows.
Persistent memory Personas Tools & skills Governed action
Second Brain
Your notes, files, decisions and operating context become persistent memory.
Retrieve context
Semantic retrieval brings the right knowledge into the current task.
Choose persona
A specialist persona takes the brief with the right context and guardrails.
Use tools & skills
Connected tools and reusable skills turn reasoning into controlled action.
Execute & learn
Workflows run, checkpoint, reflect and leave an auditable trail.
Your website, on a Kanban board
Updating your website is as easy as making a wish.
Write it down, assign it to your favourite avatar, and approve the result. Every change is a card on your board, done by an avatar, checked by you, with a record of who did what.
2. Assign it to your favourite avatar
Wishes
To doUpdate opening hours for Friday
Nova#MAS
Avatar at work
In progressYour review
ApprovalLive
DoneAdd the testimonials section
CeCiL#CEC
Fix the footer links
Atlas#ROB
Pick a wish and an avatar, then press “Make the wish”.
Live Canvas
See how Neocortex turns a brief into a shared outcome.
A customer brief flows through memory, specialist personas and connected tools while your team watches, contributes and approves the result.
Acme AI transformation proposal
Shared artifact · v14 · 4 contributors
A practical AI operating model for Acme
Neocortex combines the brief, company knowledge and specialist contributions into a customer-ready proposal — with every change visible and traceable.
Strategy
Prioritised workflow map
Delivery
90-day implementation plan
Maya
James
Second Brain → Personas → Skills → Tools → AI execution → Team outcome
Collaborative AI
AI stops being a chatbot. It becomes part of the team.
People and AI work on the same outcome. Team members contribute ideas and decisions, Neocortex coordinates specialist AI personas, and everyone can see the work evolve through shared activity, artefacts, comments, approvals and version history.
Enterprise proposal — shared workspace
PAL
Team member
Add a security architecture section and compare the deployment options.
Neocortex
I’ll delegate security architecture to the Security persona and deployment comparison to the Enterprise Architect persona, then merge the findings into the shared proposal.
3 AI contributions · 2 human comments · version 7
Shared conversation
One context for the team, not separate private AI chats.
Delegation & orchestration
Route work to specialist personas and bring the results back together.
Shared artefacts
Documents and designs evolve in the same workspace with version history.
Review & approval
Keep humans in control of consequential changes and releases.
Native mobile
Take Neocortex with you.
Native iOS and Android experiences keep your command centre, Second Brain, approvals and AI workflows close when you are away from your desk.
App Store Coming soon▶ Google Play Coming soon
Native apps are presented as part of the Neocortex product roadmap; store availability will be announced when published.
The Neocortex lifecycle
A living cortex, built around your business.
From RFP and proposal through two-week Discovery, weekly human-in-the-loop delivery cycles, controlled rollout and operations handover, Neocortex keeps growing with the organisation it serves.
RFP → Proposal
Start with the customer need, then establish the approved commercial and delivery baseline.
Two-week Discovery
Pair a Neocortex Expert with the Customer Neocortex Human Expert — Business Lead.
Weekly iterations
Design → Build → Test → Validate → Human Review → Release.
Go Live → Evolve
Roll out, hand over to operations, then continuously discover and improve.
See the full lifecycle
Human-led. AI-powered. Continuously evolving.
Controls & economics
AI with guardrails, not a blank cheque.
Neocortex treats AI spend and AI behavior as operational controls. Set budgets, enforce hard limits, optimize token usage and cache repeat work — then keep the activity visible.
Internal controls
Define who can trigger AI actions, which tools are available, and where review or approval is required.
Budget alerts
Monitor AI usage against configured budgets with alerts before spend becomes a surprise.
Hard limits
Set enforceable ceilings so a runaway workflow cannot continue consuming tokens indefinitely.
Token optimisation
Route work to the right model, reduce unnecessary context and cache repeat requests to lower token consumption.
Route
Capability-aware model selection
Use the least-cost model that meets the task requirements, with provider failover where configured.
Cache
Avoid paying twice for repeat work
Cache eligible repeat requests and retrieval results so predictable work does not repeatedly consume the same context.
Observe
Usage stays visible
AI activity is logged so the operator can inspect usage, failures and workflow behavior rather than relying on a vendor invoice alone.
Features
Designed around how work actually moves.
The value is not the number of screens. It is the continuity between them.
Enterprise AI Brain
Give your organisation a persistent intelligence layer that remembers context, understands relationships and can act across systems.
Collaborative AI workspace
Bring people, AI personas and shared artefacts into one workspace. Delegate work, see activity live, comment, approve and keep version history.
Multi-agent orchestration
Break complex work into coordinated steps, route tasks to the right AI capability and keep execution visible.
Context-aware AI
Ask questions against connected business and personal context rather than a blank chat window.
Knowledge retrieval
Search notes, files and operating knowledge semantically and bring the right context into a task.
Agent execution
Move from recommendation to controlled action with explicit review and an activity trail.
Commercial workflow
Follow engagements from quote through agreement and invoicing without losing the relationship between records.
Client experience
Expose the right information to clients without exposing the internal operating system behind it.
Activity intelligence
Bring together email, commits, tasks, calendar events and operational activity into a coherent timeline.
Mobile access
Use the same governed intelligence from desktop, tablet and phone — without losing the context behind the work.
Portable foundation
Use standard web technologies and Postgres rather than locking core business data into a proprietary format.
App Builder & SDK
Build or migrate installable capabilities using contracts, organisation-scoped configuration and the Neocortex Marketplace.
Composable
Composable by design. The perfect platform for SMEs in any industry.
A small, always-on core (the command centre, AI Conductor, integration fabric, and security and audit) with modules you switch on as you need them. Professional services, legal services, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, retail: start from your industry, then make it yours. Every module shares one data model, one AI and one set of permissions, so nothing is re-keyed and nothing sits in a silo.
Win work faster, capture every billable hour and turn quotes into cash without leakage.
Core, always on
Command centre
One surface across work, money, people and projects
AI Conductor & model router
Any LLM, failover, budgets, approvals
Integration fabric
Microsoft 365, accounting, APIs, legacy apps
Identity, security & audit
Permissions, audit trail, nothing ever destroyed
Modules, on or off
Made for you
See your business in Neocortex.
The same core, configured for the way each client works: their modules, their language, their brand.
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Pipeline
$482k
+12%
Unbilled time
$38.2k
64 h
GP margin
41.8%
+10.1 pts
Quote → cash
9 days
−14 days
Last 7 weeks
Awaiting your approval
- Month-end invoice · Coastal Freight$12,400 · AI reviewed
- Change request CR-0142 · Portal SSO6 h · $1,500
- Proposal · Brightline strategy review$28,000 · e-sign ready
AI Conductor
Which clients have unbilled work over 20 hours?
Three clients: Coastal Freight (31 h), Brightline (24 h) and Meridian Health (22 h). I have drafted invoice requests for your approval.
Illustrative mock-ups with sample data. Your Neocortex carries your name, brand and domain.
Marketplace
Switch on the apps each organisation needs.
15 installable apps share one platform, one AI router and one set of permissions. Build your own with the same App SDK.
Integrations Register
Connect the stack you already have.
40 native integrations today, plus 1,500+ more apps through Composio — no rip-and-replace. Every native one is listed in the register with how it connects and what it unlocks.
Partners
Built for an ecosystem, not an island.
Neocortex can be delivered alongside the technology, implementation and advisory partners already trusted by an organisation. Digital Response leads the product; partner relationships can extend architecture, integration, industry expertise and managed operations.
Technology
Cloud, identity, data, AI and developer platforms that become part of the operating stack.
Implementation
Architecture, integration and delivery specialists who can extend Neocortex into existing environments.
Industry
Domain experts — legal, professional services, operations — who bring workflows, controls and practical knowledge.
Managed services
Teams that can run, monitor and continuously improve connected AI workflows.
Digital Response · Brisbane
Product, architecture and delivery.
Neocortex is built and operated by Digital Response, with a partner model designed to extend the platform without compromising the core architecture.
Why Neocortex
One platform instead of five, side by side.
What you get from Neocortex against the tools firms usually stitch together.
Open a category to see its capabilities. Scroll sideways for more products.
| Capability | Neocortex | Glean | Microsoft 365 + Copilot | Notion / ClickUp | Salesforce / HubSpot | Jira + Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/7 | 0/7 | 0/7 | 1/7 | 1/7 | 1/7 | |
| Governed quote to revenue (quote → agreement → invoice → paid) | ||||||
| Service agreements, retainers and renewals | ||||||
| Built-in e-signature with audit trail | ||||||
| Branded client portal | ||||||
| Automatic time capture from email, meetings and code | ||||||
| Accounting sync (QuickBooks, Xero, MYOB) | ||||||
| Tasks, Kanban and projects | ||||||
| 4/4 | 2/4 | 0/4 | 0/4 | 0/4 | 0/4 | |
| 3/3 | 1/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | |
| 4/4 | 0/4 | 0/4 | 1/4 | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| 3/3 | 1/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 |
partly, or only with extra products or add-ons. not described publicly, which is not the same as no. Based on each product’s standard plans; Glean from its public materials as at October 2026. Read the full Glean comparison.
Neocortex vs Glean
Finding answers, or running the work.
Glean searches and assists across the apps you already have. Neocortex adds a governed AI layer and the business apps themselves. Here is where each is stronger.
| Glean | Neocortex | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is Different approach | A Work AI platform: enterprise search, an assistant and agents over the apps you connect. | An Enterprise AI Brain and governed operating layer, with installable business apps on the same platform. |
| Finding answers across your apps Partly available | Its core strength. Search and an assistant across connected apps, respecting each source system’s permissions. | The Second Brain gives hybrid keyword and semantic search and answers over your notes, files and synced sources. Permissions are organisation and PIN based today; per-source permission mirroring at query time is being built. |
| Breadth of connectors Glean is stronger | 100+ connectors that index content for search; its own materials cite 275+. | 35 integrations in the register today, plus access to 1,500+ apps through Composio for managed sign-in and actions. These read and act; only a few bespoke syncs index content for search, so Glean is ahead on indexed connectors. |
| Agent identity and attribution Partly available | Each agent can have its own governed identity and service credentials, making agent activity attributable and independently controlled. | Agent identity records (owner, purpose, autonomy, risk tier, verification, status) exist in the data model. Management screens and enforcement of verification are in build. |
| Agent lifecycle and governance Partly available | Agent Library controls, verification, access policies, sandboxing and lifecycle governance are designed for production agent fleets. | Trust Fabric already gates tools with allow, approve or deny, with approvals and run evidence. The agent library verification workflow and feedback screens are still to come. |
| Proactive and event-driven work Glean is stronger | Agents can be scheduled or triggered by content changes, forms and external events. | Scheduled and manual runs work today. Content-change, form and webhook triggers are declared but not yet dispatched, and the schedule runner is daily. |
| Agent observability and improvement Glean is stronger | Debug and Trace views expose inputs, tool calls, decisions and outputs; Agent Insights measures adoption, errors and ROI. | Agent run history, decision evidence, Agent Insights, searchable Agent Library discovery and Trust Fabric attention signals are visible today; deeper traces and measured ROI baselines continue to expand. |
| Enterprise intelligence control room Neocortex is stronger | Enterprise Context unifies organisational knowledge, people, activity and applications. | Enterprise Intelligence provides one operational view across context, AI workers, execution, governance, collaboration, model capacity and attention signals. |
| Secure agent sandbox Partly available | Agent Sandbox provides isolated filesystem, CLI and code execution for deeper research and analysis. | Neocortex Coder and a remote terminal run code and tools under Trust Fabric. Per-agent isolation, egress policy and resource limits are not yet in place. |
| Personal and organisational context Partly available | Personal Graph and Enterprise Graph combine user preferences, people, content and activity into reusable context. | Second Brain notes, Personas and organisation scoping provide reusable context. It is not a graph of people, teams and documents yet. |
| Running the business, not only finding things Neocortex is stronger | Positioned as search, assistant and agents on top of your existing systems. | Ships the apps too. Quote to Revenue CRM & ERP is a key installable app, suited to many businesses and particularly professional services: quotes, agreements, invoicing, projects, time and a client portal. |
| Where it can run Partly available | Multi-tenant cloud with configurable data residency, single-tenant cloud, or customer-hosted and on-premises. | Self-host with Docker or run on Vercel, in the country you choose. Self-hosting is supported today; region selection and residency controls in the product are not. |
| Choice of AI models Partly available | A Model Hub with 15+ models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon and Meta, selectable per conversation. | Provider-agnostic model router across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta and more, cloud or self-hosted, with the model shown on each answer. A per-conversation model picker is still to come. |
| Assistants where people work (Slack, Teams, browser) Glean is stronger | Assistant in Slack, Teams and a browser extension, so answers appear where people already are. | Not available yet. Teams and Copilot connections exist for Carter Capner Law, but there are no general Slack or Teams bots or a browser extension. |
| Enterprise security and compliance controls Glean is stronger | SSO and SCIM provisioning, audit logs, data loss prevention and retention controls. | Sign-in through Clerk, domain audit trails and a recycle bin. SCIM, a platform-wide audit log, data loss prevention and retention policies are not built yet. |
| Building agents and workflows Partly available | No-code agent builder with templates and a managed agent library. | A no-code custom agent builder (prompt, tool allowlist, scope) and an n8n workflow API are available. An embedded visual workflow builder is still to come. |
| Ownership and lock-in Neocortex is stronger | A proprietary subscription platform. Source-code escrow is not described in its public materials. | Zero vendor lock-in: you own your data and the full source code is held in escrow. |
| Pricing and minimum seats Neocortex is stronger | Not published. Third-party reports cite roughly US$45–50 per user per month with a 100-seat minimum, falling at higher volumes. | A one-seat minimum. Start with a guided trial and one user, then scale. Organisations above 500 users are quoted as enterprise. |
What it is
Different approach
Glean
A Work AI platform: enterprise search, an assistant and agents over the apps you connect.
Neocortex
An Enterprise AI Brain and governed operating layer, with installable business apps on the same platform.
Finding answers across your apps
Partly available
Glean
Its core strength. Search and an assistant across connected apps, respecting each source system’s permissions.
Neocortex
The Second Brain gives hybrid keyword and semantic search and answers over your notes, files and synced sources. Permissions are organisation and PIN based today; per-source permission mirroring at query time is being built.
Breadth of connectors
Glean is stronger
Glean
100+ connectors that index content for search; its own materials cite 275+.
Neocortex
35 integrations in the register today, plus access to 1,500+ apps through Composio for managed sign-in and actions. These read and act; only a few bespoke syncs index content for search, so Glean is ahead on indexed connectors.
Agent identity and attribution
Partly available
Glean
Each agent can have its own governed identity and service credentials, making agent activity attributable and independently controlled.
Neocortex
Agent identity records (owner, purpose, autonomy, risk tier, verification, status) exist in the data model. Management screens and enforcement of verification are in build.
Agent lifecycle and governance
Partly available
Glean
Agent Library controls, verification, access policies, sandboxing and lifecycle governance are designed for production agent fleets.
Neocortex
Trust Fabric already gates tools with allow, approve or deny, with approvals and run evidence. The agent library verification workflow and feedback screens are still to come.
Proactive and event-driven work
Glean is stronger
Glean
Agents can be scheduled or triggered by content changes, forms and external events.
Neocortex
Scheduled and manual runs work today. Content-change, form and webhook triggers are declared but not yet dispatched, and the schedule runner is daily.
Agent observability and improvement
Glean is stronger
Glean
Debug and Trace views expose inputs, tool calls, decisions and outputs; Agent Insights measures adoption, errors and ROI.
Neocortex
Agent run history, decision evidence, Agent Insights, searchable Agent Library discovery and Trust Fabric attention signals are visible today; deeper traces and measured ROI baselines continue to expand.
Enterprise intelligence control room
Neocortex is stronger
Glean
Enterprise Context unifies organisational knowledge, people, activity and applications.
Neocortex
Enterprise Intelligence provides one operational view across context, AI workers, execution, governance, collaboration, model capacity and attention signals.
Secure agent sandbox
Partly available
Glean
Agent Sandbox provides isolated filesystem, CLI and code execution for deeper research and analysis.
Neocortex
Neocortex Coder and a remote terminal run code and tools under Trust Fabric. Per-agent isolation, egress policy and resource limits are not yet in place.
Personal and organisational context
Partly available
Glean
Personal Graph and Enterprise Graph combine user preferences, people, content and activity into reusable context.
Neocortex
Second Brain notes, Personas and organisation scoping provide reusable context. It is not a graph of people, teams and documents yet.
Running the business, not only finding things
Neocortex is stronger
Glean
Positioned as search, assistant and agents on top of your existing systems.
Neocortex
Ships the apps too. Quote to Revenue CRM & ERP is a key installable app, suited to many businesses and particularly professional services: quotes, agreements, invoicing, projects, time and a client portal.
Where it can run
Partly available
Glean
Multi-tenant cloud with configurable data residency, single-tenant cloud, or customer-hosted and on-premises.
Neocortex
Self-host with Docker or run on Vercel, in the country you choose. Self-hosting is supported today; region selection and residency controls in the product are not.
Choice of AI models
Partly available
Glean
A Model Hub with 15+ models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon and Meta, selectable per conversation.
Neocortex
Provider-agnostic model router across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta and more, cloud or self-hosted, with the model shown on each answer. A per-conversation model picker is still to come.
Assistants where people work (Slack, Teams, browser)
Glean is stronger
Glean
Assistant in Slack, Teams and a browser extension, so answers appear where people already are.
Neocortex
Not available yet. Teams and Copilot connections exist for Carter Capner Law, but there are no general Slack or Teams bots or a browser extension.
Enterprise security and compliance controls
Glean is stronger
Glean
SSO and SCIM provisioning, audit logs, data loss prevention and retention controls.
Neocortex
Sign-in through Clerk, domain audit trails and a recycle bin. SCIM, a platform-wide audit log, data loss prevention and retention policies are not built yet.
Building agents and workflows
Partly available
Glean
No-code agent builder with templates and a managed agent library.
Neocortex
A no-code custom agent builder (prompt, tool allowlist, scope) and an n8n workflow API are available. An embedded visual workflow builder is still to come.
Ownership and lock-in
Neocortex is stronger
Glean
A proprietary subscription platform. Source-code escrow is not described in its public materials.
Neocortex
Zero vendor lock-in: you own your data and the full source code is held in escrow.
Pricing and minimum seats
Neocortex is stronger
Glean
Not published. Third-party reports cite roughly US$45–50 per user per month with a 100-seat minimum, falling at higher volumes.
Neocortex
A one-seat minimum. Start with a guided trial and one user, then scale. Organisations above 500 users are quoted as enterprise.
Where we are, honestly
Governed agents are the foundation. Several pieces are still in build.
Enterprise AI needs identity, event-driven execution, governed autonomy, evidence and measurable outcomes. Neocortex has the data model and the Trust Fabric gate today. Rows marked “Glean is stronger” or “Partly available” above are tracked build items, not roadmap promises.
Agent identity
Digital workers have an owner, purpose, autonomy level, risk tier and lifecycle status in the data model; management screens are in build.
Event-driven agents
Scheduled and manual runs work today; content-change, form and webhook triggers are in build.
Agent quality loop
Run evidence and decisions are captured; ratings, trace viewing and ROI reporting are in build.
Enterprise context
Combine Second Brain, Personas, organisation context and activity into reusable agent context.
Governed execution
Trust Fabric keeps tool access, approvals, spend and consequential actions under policy.
Open context
MCP, REST, webhooks and the App SDK keep the platform open instead of creating another AI silo.
From Glean’s public materials and third-party reports, as at October 2026. Confirm current details with Glean.
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Case study · Professional services
Gross profit margin up 10% by automating the business, agentically.
Headline benefit: accelerate quote to revenue.
An Australian professional services firm ran its commercial life across spreadsheets, a CRM, a proposal tool, a timesheet app and an accounting package. None of it talked to the rest. With Neocortex, one governed brain runs the whole flow, from the first enquiry to the cash in the bank. Agents do the assembly work, and people approve what matters.
+10%
gross profit margin
- · Billable time captured instead of lost
- · Out-of-scope work billed as change requests, not given away
- · Quotes and invoices out faster, so cash arrives sooner
Enquiry to quote
Quotes rebuilt from old documents; days to respond.
The Conductor drafts the quote from the enquiry, rate card and past work.
Signature
PDFs emailed back and forth; scope drifted.
E-signed quote becomes the agreement, scope and all.
Delivery & time
Timesheets reconstructed at month end; hours lost.
Time captured from email, meetings and work as it happens.
Changes
Extra requests absorbed as goodwill.
Out-of-scope requests become change requests, estimated and approved.
Invoice
Invoices assembled by hand, sent late.
Month-end invoices prepared by agents, AI-reviewed, approved in one tap.
Cash
Chasing by memory.
Receivables tracked and followed up automatically.
Second Brain
Your AI, your memory, your rules.
Every document, email, meeting and file becomes searchable by meaning. Answers cite their sources, and the memory belongs to you — isolated per owner, never used to train anyone else’s model.
Ask in plain language
Get sourced answers across documents, mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and notes.
Expert vaults
Keep specialist libraries — precedents, standards, architecture — as their own searchable vaults.
Agents can use it
The same memory is exposed to your agents and to Claude, Copilot and others through MCP.
Quote to revenue
One traceable chain from proposal to payment.
Every line is traceable to its evidence — the email, meeting or commit it came from — so nothing is billed twice and nothing is missed.
- Step 1
Quote
- Step 2
Sign online
- Step 3
Agreement or retainer
- Step 4
Time captured automatically
- Step 5
Invoice and sync to accounting
- Step 6
Paid and reconciled
Deployment
Deploy anywhere. Own your data. Choose your AI.
Our cloud, in Australia
Managed SaaS in Australian regions with backups, monitoring and updates included.
Your cloud
Deployed into your own Azure, AWS or Google Cloud tenancy under your controls and billing.
Your data centre
On-premises or private network, with local AI models so nothing leaves your walls.
Our AI or yours
Use our model router, your own Azure OpenAI or provider keys, or host models yourself.
Own the code
License the source outright, or subscribe with the source held in independent escrow.
Your brand
White label the whole platform — name, logo, colours, domain, documents and AI persona.
How an engagement runs
Live in weeks, one step at a time.
- Step 1
Discover
Map what is fragmented today, the systems you run and what success looks like.
- Step 2
Design
Solution and security architecture, hosting choice, integrations and branding.
- Step 3
Deploy
Single sign-on, your data connected, the apps you need switched on.
- Step 4
Improve
Measure the savings, add apps and agents, and keep tuning with your team.
Built generically for any industry — legal, accounting, consulting, engineering, trades and more — and secured for any jurisdiction, with Australian data residency by default.
In their words
What colleagues say about the people behind the platform.
LinkedIn recommendations for Peter Bardenhagen, our Chief Enterprise Architect. Quoted as written.
“Peter is one of the fastest and most flexible web developers I have ever encountered - possessing a rare combination of acute business acumen and wide-ranging technical proficiency, as well as good interpersonal skills. Peter repeatedly delivered quality results within tight timeframes to a demanding customer base of real-estate franchise owners. I would recommend a conversation with Peter about any web-based venture.”
David GreenNational Customer Success Manager (Au/NZ) at Quantum IT “Peter has extensive and detailed knowledge of mobile/web technologies and SDLC. He shows steadfast commitment to delivering on time and on budget. He has managed successful development teams with confidence and aplomb whilst keeping one eye on strategic development. Peter is highly recommended for similar roles -- I hope that we get the opportunity to work together in the future.”
James KempSoftware Engineer at Autograb.com.au “Peter is an upbeat and positive manager and as capable a business problem solver as I have seen. As my direct supervisor over several education software maintenance and development projects, he showed confidence in me to get my work done to the highest standard and he provided resources and alternative pathways to solutions when the pressure was on and time and budget were tight. I am grateful for the mentoring and encouragement Peter has given me.”
Owen McKennaDeveloper, Drupal, PHP “I have had the pleasure of working with Peter Bardenhagen in Education Services Australia, and I must say it was a great learning experience. He has sound knowledge in his domain and is a master of it. His technical capability is exemplary, and he has extraordinary management skills, managing tough projects to meet strict deadlines. He leads his team by setting examples and motivation, creating an environment which helps his team members perform at the best of their abilities.”
Neda FaisalProject Manager at Services Australia “I worked with Peter at Sonic Healthcare where he lead the project for Sonic Clinical Services websites. Peter was excellent to work with, very responsive, proactive and approachable. During our time working together, I found that he would always do his best to think outside to find solutions that would benefit not only his team but other teams also. I would love to work with him again.”
Jonah WigleyColleague at Sonic Healthcare “Peter was part of my team at Quantum when I was Product Manager for InPlace. He fulfilled the role of bridging the Business Analysts with the Development team - a challenging role at times. He had the rare gift of comprehending the end users' needs and translating them into achievable robust problem solution specifications, and to ensure the solution met or exceeded the customer's expectations while being a supportive team player along the way. He was a valued member of my team.”
Gregg BoalchProduct Manager, Quantum (InPlace)
FAQs
Yes, to the questions that matter.
Neocortex is completely configurable, enterprise grade and ready to implement.
How is Neocortex authenticated today?
Neocortex is a single-operator application today. Authentication is one shared operator PIN by design. It is not presented as per-user accounts, MFA, SSO or a hardened multi-tenant SaaS identity system. The organisations data model exists as a foundation for future multi-organisation capability, but it is not the current authentication boundary.
Is it hosted in Australia?
Yes. Application, database, files and backups can all stay in Australian regions.
Can we own the source code, or is escrow available?
Yes, both. License the source outright for your own deployment, or subscribe with the source held in independent escrow.
Is it PaaS or SaaS?
Either. Use it as SaaS we run, as a platform you extend with the App SDK, or as software you run yourself — same product in every model.
Which LLMs can I use?
Any of them: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Groq, OpenRouter and models you host locally. Choose per task, set budgets, and fail over automatically.
Can I host it in my own data centre?
Yes. It ships as a standard container for your data centre, your own Azure, AWS or Google Cloud tenancy, or a private network — with local models if no prompt may leave your walls.
What controls exist around AI usage and spend?
Neocortex is designed around explicit operator controls: AI usage can be monitored against budgets, alerts can surface approaching limits, hard limits can stop further consumption, and the router can optimize model selection and token use. Caching can avoid repeating eligible work. These controls should be evaluated against the exact deployment configuration rather than treated as a universal guarantee.
Can we put our own brand on it?
Yes. Name, logo, colours, domain, documents, email and even the AI persona are configurable for a deployment.
How long does it take to implement?
Implementation depends on the deployment, integrations and controls required. Neocortex is currently introduced through guided engagements rather than a self-serve SaaS signup.
Pricing
Start with intelligence. Scale the cortex.
Neocortex is currently being introduced through guided engagements rather than a one-size-fits-all public subscription. Pricing reflects scope, connected systems, users, deployment and support.
Start here
Freemium — planned
Personal
A future personal tier with a useful free entry experience, with sensible limits on AI usage, storage and premium integrations.
- Core personal workspace
- Limited AI usage
- Personal knowledge & planning
- Portable data
No obligation. We reply within one business day.
Run the platform
Business
A production deployment for an owner-led business or operating team that wants one governed command centre.
- Production workspace
- Connected systems
- AI and knowledge layer
- Ongoing support
No obligation. We reply within one business day.
Scale the architecture
Enterprise
A tailored deployment for larger organisations, complex integrations, governance requirements or private infrastructure.
- Architecture assessment
- Custom integrations
- Security & governance
- Commercial and deployment model
No obligation. We reply within one business day.
Request Trial
See Neocortex working against a real problem.
Tell us what is fragmented today. We will scope a focused trial around the workflows, systems and outcomes that matter.