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Cortex Scorecards + GitHub Rule Sets: Branch Protection at Scale

Stop guessing whether your repos meet your branch policies. Start knowing. In this Feature Friday, Senior Engineering Manager Gabriel walks through Cortex's new native support for GitHub branch rule sets and how to use them in scorecards to enforce consistent policies across all your repos. What you'll see: Questions? Reach out to your CSM or drop a comment below.

Operational excellence (OpEx) reviews: the weekly meeting that actually changes behavior

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Shawn Burke, Distinguished Engineer at Cortex, to explore what separates an operational excellence review that drives real engineering behavior from one that produces great conversation and nothing else. Shawn draws on experience from SoFi, Uber, and Microsoft to explain why these reviews so often fail—and how to build a process that actually sticks.

Cortex | Workflows Run API

Cortex Workflows can now be triggered externally via the Workflows Run API (beta). In this video, Solutions Architect Jeff Schnitter walks through how to trigger a workflow from the Cortex CLI, pass context via a JSON file, and run synchronously or asynchronously. Requires CLI v1.15.0+ and the "runnable via API" toggle enabled on the workflow. To enable the Workflows Run API in your workspace, contact your CSM.

Can DevOps work in regulated industries?

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.

Why DevOps transformations fail in regulated industries, with Merge Ready's Matt Bailey

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.

Cortex | See every engineering scorecard in one view with All Scorecards

Engineering orgs track AI maturity, production readiness, incident preparedness, and a dozen other standards. Each one usually lives in its own scorecard, which makes it hard to see where the org is actually stuck. For this Feature Friday, our Principal Product Manager Christine Byun walks through the new All Scorecards report, now in private beta. In this demo: Birdseye showed you one standard in detail. All Scorecards zooms out so you can see the whole engineering org at once.

Using Cortex AI Assistant to Clean Flags

Every team ships feature flags. Nobody owns the cleanup. The result is predictable: ownership gaps, environmental drift, complex targeting nobody remembers writing. In this Feature Friday, Cortex VP of Product Kara Gillis walks through how she triaged nearly 100 of our own LaunchDarkly flags using the Cortex AI Assistant in Slack. The Assistant queried our internal Feature Flag Scorecard and returned.

Building a dev platform like a product: Inside The New York Times with Sneha Rao and Ahmed Bebars

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Sneha Rao, VP of Product, and Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer, both from The New York Times Developer Platforms team, to discuss what it means to build and operate a developer platform at scale across a complex media organization.

Introducing the Cortex AI Assistant (now in Slack)!

Mention @Cortex in any Slack channel the Assistant has been invited to, public or private, and get grounded answers pulled from your Cortex data. Questions can be as simple as "who owns payments-api?" or as analytical as "what's driving our incident trends this quarter?" The Assistant pulls context from all across Cortex, including ownership, Scorecards, Initiatives, on-call, dependencies, and Eng Intelligence metrics, and holds context across a threaded conversation.