Welcome to Cortex
Cortex is the Trust Layer for AI Systems - a real-time web search API that connects your AI applications to the live web with verified, auditable, source-aware intelligence.
🚀 What is Cortex?
Cortex solves the fundamental problem of AI systems flying blind. While traditional AI models rely on outdated training data, Cortex provides:
- 🔄 Real-time web access with live crawling
- 🔗 Source verification and citation backing
- ✅ Content validation across multiple sources
- 🛡️ AI-safe responses with injection filtering
- 📊 Audit trails for complete transparency
⚡ Quick Start
Get started with Cortex in under 5 minutes:
# 1. Get your API key from https://usecortex.co
#dummy comment
export CORTEX_API_KEY="your-api-key"
# 2. Make your first request
curl -X POST https://api.usecortex.co/v1/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CORTEX_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"query": "latest developments in artificial intelligence",
"max_results": 5
}'
🎯 Perfect For
| Use Case | Description |
|---|---|
| 🤖 AI Agents | Give autonomous agents real-time reasoning capabilities |
| 💬 Chatbots | Power assistants with live, verifiable answers |
| 🔍 RAG Systems | Fresh knowledge for retrieval-augmented generation |
| 📊 Research Tools | Multi-source summaries with citations |
| 🏢 Enterprise AI | Secure, traceable AI applications |
🔍 Core Features
Base Layer
- POST /search - Live web search with LLM-ready summaries
- POST /extract - Clean text extraction from URLs
- POST /summarize - AI-powered content summarization
Trust Layer (Cortex Differentiator)
- POST /validate - Cross-source fact verification
- POST /cache - Memory cache for trusted results
- POST /change-monitor - Source change detection
- POST /audit-trail - Complete data provenance
🌐 Example Response
{
"summary": "OpenAI announced GPT-5 with breakthrough reasoning capabilities...",
"sources": [
{
"url": "https://openai.com/blog/gpt-5",
"title": "Introducing GPT-5",
"confidence": 0.96,
"published": "2025-01-08T10:00:00Z"
}
],
"verified_consistency": true,
"cached_at": "2025-01-09T10:30:00Z"
}
📚 Next Steps
🎯 Why Cortex?
"What Pinecone is to memory, Cortex is to reality."
- Always Current - Real-time data, not stale cache
- Verifiable - Every response includes source citations
- Safe - Injection filtering and content validation
- Scalable - Enterprise-grade infrastructure
- Transparent - Complete audit trails
Ready to give your AI real-time vision? Let's get started! 🚀