The Decision Gap
European mid-market leaders make capital, pricing and risk decisions under structural EU-specific pressure:
- Energy-cost volatility post-2022 with no return to baseline
- Regulatory cascade — CSRD, DORA, NIS2, EU AI Act, Lieferkettengesetz
- Supply-chain re-mapping under sanctions and shifting tariff regimes
- Demographic and skills pressure in DACH labour markets
Generic AI tools generate plausible answers without auditable provenance. Strategy projects deliver static outputs detached from ongoing change. Internal analytics explain the past — but not the next decision.
Capital, pricing and risk decisions are made without a reliable external decision foundation.
Three Intelligence Layers
Strategic Compliance Check
Continuous visibility into regulatory exposure, sanctions risk, and compliance developments.
Sources: ESMA · BaFin · BMJ · OFAC · EU AI Act registry · CSRD / DORA / NIS2 trackers
Output: forward-looking impact — not retrospective audit.
Continuous Decision Cockpit
Board-level decision support with explicit trade-offs and measurable outcomes.
- Options A / B / C with consequences
- 90-day execution horizon
- Clear linkage between decision and expected impact
No narratives. No slides. Only decisions with traceable reasoning.
Outside-In Strategic Layer
External signals integrated into internal decision context:
- Competitor movement (DACH peers, EU-wide consolidation)
- Cost-structure shifts (energy, raw materials, labour, tariffs)
- Regulatory developments (EU and national-level transposition)
- Capital-market signals (ECB rates, EU bond markets)
Each recommendation includes a tiered citation trail: authoritative sources → validated data → derived patterns.
Why CORTEX
✓ Decision-traced, not prompt-generated
Every output is grounded in verifiable sources with explicit confidence-tier and provenance trace.
✓ Built for the European mid-market
Designed for €30–300M industrial and technology companies operating under EU-specific structural uncertainty — not adapted from US frameworks.
✓ Works alongside existing systems
Extends ERP, CRM, PIM and data environments with an external decision layer — no replacement, no rip-and-replace.
✓ EU-native data architecture
All pipelines operate within Microsoft Azure West-Europe. No cross-border data exposure.
✓ Provenance at system level
Each decision artefact includes a verifiable trace — cryptographic signature + source chain — auditable on demand.