Cortex: governed AI capabilities and agents | Abaci


The right agent. The right intelligence.

Build agents for different roles, processes and environments, with the freedom to choose the intelligence that best fits each requirement.



AI should fit your architecture, not define it.

Most business software was not designed for AI, while individual AI providers naturally build around their own models and services. Cortex gives you a governed layer in between, so you can choose the intelligence that fits each requirement without giving up control over your data, processes or architecture.

The usual compromise

AI added to existing software through isolated integrations and workarounds.

Applications tied directly to a particular provider, model or implementation.

Limited choice over where sensitive data is processed and which models can be used.

AI logic, access and controls fragmented across different systems.

How Cortex changes this

Connect hosted, private and locally deployed models through one AI layer.

Choose the model and deployment approach that fits each workload.

Keep business capabilities independent of the provider underneath them.

Apply consistent governance to the data, tools and actions available to every agent.

AI operating within your controls.

Introduce AI within the same controls that govern the rest of your operations. Define agent access, capabilities and where human approval is required, with decisions and activity remaining traceable throughout.

  • Supports local and provider connections to suit the use case.
  • Maintains a complete audit trail for every action and decision.
Agent Setup

Finance Support Agent

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Model
llama3.1:8b
Data access
Finance workspace · read only
Policy
AI-FIN-04
Action
Generate variance explanation

From model to working agent.

01

Connect

Connect the hosted, private or locally deployed AI providers and models that fit your requirements.

02

Configure

Define the agent's purpose, instructions, model, data access, tools, controls and operating boundaries.

03

Process

Put the agent to work inside business processes, applications and workflows, with governance applied to what it can access and do.

Flexibility without giving up control.

Cortex lets you choose the models, deployment patterns and agent configurations that fit each use case, while keeping access, actions and oversight consistent across the organisation.

Choose the right model

Use hosted, private or local models depending on capability, privacy and operating requirements.

Change without rebuilding

Swap or introduce models without redesigning the business process around a new provider.

Control the data boundary

Decide what information each agent can access and where that information is processed.

Separate intelligence from execution

Use AI for reasoning and interpretation while keeping business actions inside controlled platform processes.

Apply human oversight where it matters

Require review or approval for decisions and actions that should not proceed autonomously.

Keep one operating model

Different agents and models can work within the same organisational controls rather than creating separate AI silos.

Powerful on its own. Stronger together.

Use our solutions to solve a defined business problem intitially, then expand with additional platform capabilities as and when your needs grow.

See what the platform can do

Looking to benefit from agents?

Explore how Cortex helps you create agents around the needs of your business, with the flexibility to choose the right models and the controls to govern how they operate.

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