A multiplayer AI workspace for research labs
Today, even with a shared AI assistant, every conversation is one person talking to a bot. Cortex turns the whole lab's chats into a live research map. Branch a side question, pull a teammate's chat in as context, and merge threads when results connect. Everyone sees the map change as it happens.
About two minutes from start to finish, with no sign-up. Have a join code? Join a lab
The problem
But that knowledge is split across private chat histories. Cortex makes it visible, so the lab can build on it together.
How it works
Ask the lab's AI anything. Answers cite the lab's own papers, code and data, and each chat lands on the map next to the research topic it belongs to, in the colour of the person who started it.
Zoom into any chat to see every prompt and the file it used.
Drag any node, whether it's a teammate's chat, a paper or a dataset, into your conversation. It becomes context for your next question, and a line on the map shows where the idea came from.
Explore a tangent without derailing the main thread. When the side question pays off, say when simulation results line up with the wind tunnel data, merge it back so the finding lives where the team will look for it.
A new PhD student can open the map on day one and see what the team has explored, what it found and where it stopped. They continue that work instead of starting over, and they can still ask questions answered by people who graduated years ago.
Built for research labs
Watch teammates ask, branch and merge in real time, on laptops and phones. Follow anyone to see what they're working on.
Every answer cites its sources, and says so honestly when the lab doesn't have the answer yet.
Read-only connections to Google Drive, GitHub, OneDrive, lab PCs and your papers.
Allow Claude, GPT, Gemini or a model on the lab's own server, and switch models mid-chat without losing anything.
When people graduate, their chats and findings stay on the map and keep answering questions.
See weekly active researchers, questions asked, useful answers and citation accuracy at a glance.
Contact
Want to try Cortex with your team, have feedback on the demo, or just want to talk? Send us a note and we'll get back to you.