Compoundingdecades ofengineering
You built a firm around your expertise. Cortex helps you scale it.
Most of those months are repetition.
Verifying schematics against datasheets, requalifying parts that go obsolete: careful work your firm has solved before, done by hand. The errors that slip through force respins. None of it has to start from zero.
Stop reinventing the
wheel each time
of a new project
has been solved before
Compound the expertise
already in your firm.
We automate the repeatable, laborious parts of PCB design work. The decisions sitting in your folders, tools, and memory become searchable and reusable, applied to the next project. Your firm’s knowledge builds on itself.
Cortex invests in exceptional electrical engineering firms and deploys technology that makes every engineer faster.
More of the physical world, designed and built. Engineering capacity has always been scarce. Cortex makes it abundant.
More capacity
Less time reconstructing work your team has already done. More room to investigate alternatives.
More ambitious projects
Each engineer takes on more. Over years, that changes which projects your firm can take on.
The same authority
Technical direction, review, and sign-off stay with your engineers. Your quality bar stays in place.
Start a conversation.
Questions founders ask.
Are you acquiring the firm, or partnering with it?
It's a long-term equity partnership. We take a meaningful stake, so we only win if the firm wins. You keep control, and what the partnership looks like is something we shape together from the start.
What happens to my team?
They stay, with their titles and their work. Your engineers and their expertise are the reason we're investing. Agents take on the repetitive work around them, like verifying schematics against datasheets and requalifying obsolete parts, so your people spend more of their time on the judgment they were hired for.
What happens to me, the founder?
That's largely up to you. Some founders stay and run the firm inside the network; others step back over time. Your role, terms, and timeline are things we shape together from the first call.
Who signs off on technical decisions after close?
The same engineers who sign off today. Nobody new gets placed above your technical leadership. Agents produce first passes and drafts, and your people accept, correct, or reject them. The call stays where it is now.
Does the firm keep its name?
Yes. Your name and reputation are part of what makes the firm worth investing in, and the clients who chose you chose the name on the door. If you ever want to change it, that's your call to make.
Do we have to change the tools we use?
No. Cortex works with your existing EDA tools and the workflow you already run. You shouldn't have to relearn your stack to get the benefit of this.
What do you actually deploy, and how long does it take?
We start by indexing your prior work, so past projects become searchable. Then we add agents for the laborious work your engineers would rather not repeat, like checking schematics against datasheets and requalifying obsolete parts. Because it all builds on an archive you already have, the first useful results usually arrive within weeks.