Pathlight·Cortex
Cortex by Pathlight AI

See what needs your attention—without reconstructing your business every morning.

Turn scattered projects, decisions, and next steps into one clear Command Center. Start with a guided setup you can complete in about 10 minutes.

Start with clarity. Add automation and integrations after the structure proves useful.
Build your first Command Center Learn how Cortex works

One starting point, one useful outcome.

The Quickstart diagnoses just enough of your situation to create a practical first version—not a generic report and not a long consulting intake.

01

Name what you run

List the businesses, projects, or workstreams competing for your attention.

02

Choose what matters

Identify where work lives and what the Command Center must show.

03

Build the first version

Paste a tailored setup into Claude Code and verify the result.

What your first Command Center shows

A useful operating view of the business today. Connections and automations can come later.

What is currently in progress
What needs your approval or attention
The next actions that move work forward
A structure future integrations can update

Another place to start: get customers.

If your bottleneck is not visibility but pipeline, begin here instead. Same 10-minute guided setup, pointed at go-to-market: name who you help, where you reach them, and what you sell, and Claude Code builds your ideal-customer profile, a prospect tracker, and outreach messages in your own voice.

Build your outreach engine Or build your Command Center first

Want the reasoning before the setup?

The educational playbook remains public. Use it when you want context, examples, or the deeper reference material.

How Cortex worksBrowse the full playbook

Start with the business you are running now.

Three short questions. One tailored setup. No integrations required.

Build your first Command Center
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The five wins

You don't have to read this front to back. The fastest path is five wins, each a real result you can feel. Most people only need the first few.

00 · Setup

Before you install

The picture, the fast start, and the fuller toolchain.

01 · Memory · Temporal cortex

What the business knows

Voice, ICP, SOPs, decisions, prior work. Memory is the foundation. Install this first.

02 · Senses · Sensory + motor cortex

How it perceives and acts

Surfaces, connectors, the interface you touch. The system reaches further than you can.

03 · Habits · Basal ganglia

What runs without thinking

Skills, workflows, agents. The work that used to take you a morning now takes a button press.

Command Center

The state of everything, on one page

The capstone. Pull it all together into a single view you actually look at.

04 · Learning · Neuroplasticity

How it gets better

Rituals, lints, drift detection. Without this layer, the Cortex stays the same forever.

Where this goes next

The do-it-yourself line

Where building it yourself ends, and where having a partner starts to make sense.