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AI Chief of Staff for Engineering Leaders

Meet Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff, your new strategic partner for engineering leadership. This isn’t just another dashboard. It’s an intelligent advisor that connects your engineering data, scorecards, and DORA metrics to give you real-time, actionable insights. What you'll learn in this video: Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff brings clarity and confidence to decision-making, helping leaders transform meetings into strategic, data-driven conversations that drive continuous improvement.

How Cortex brings visibility, governance, and self-service to Kubernetes operations

Platform teams handle cluster provisioning manually because it requires oversight. A product team needs a cluster, so they submit a request. Someone reviews the configuration, provisions it through the cloud provider, waits for it to spin up, and sends back access details. Two days later, the cluster is ready. The delay is intentional. Without review, teams provision oversized clusters that blow budgets, misconfigure networking, or deploy in the wrong regions.

New Feature Friday: Ask Your Engineering Metrics Anything | Cortex Engineering Intelligence for MCP

What if you could analyze your engineering metrics — just by asking a question? Now you can. Introducing Engineering Intelligence for MCP, a new Cortex feature that lets you query your engineering data through AI systems like Claude or Cursor. No dashboards. No BI setup. Just ask: “What’s driving our cycle time?” “Show me Q3 deployment trends.” “Where are our bottlenecks?” Cortex connects your real engineering data to your favorite AI client, so you can get instant, conversational insights on delivery, quality, and team performance — all without leaving your IDE.

A quick recap of IDPCON 2025

Two weeks ago, we hosted IDPCON 2025, and the response has been overwhelming. Over 250 engineering leaders from 20+ countries joined us for 12 sessions featuring speakers from Canva, Skyscanner, Blackstone, and more. Attendees participated in discussions at 20+ roundtables, sharing strategies and challenges around engineering excellence and internal developer portals.

Introducing Braintrust: The exclusive network of engineering leaders shaping the future

In an era of unprecedented change, the role of an engineering leader has never been more demanding. Yesterday’s priority was scaling teams, while today’s is twofold: deploying AI responsibly and measuring the true impact of it all. The challenges are immense, and for the first time in a long time, the playbook is being written in real-time. That’s why today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Braintrust, a new community from Cortex.

Understand how AI is affecting your engineering team with Cortex's AI Impact Dashboard

Rolling out a powerful AI tool like GitHub Copilot is a big win for any engineering leader. But because it’s such a significant investment, leadership will inevitably ask if it was worth the cost. Until now, answering this was nearly impossible. While GitHub provides adoption stats, connecting that data to real-world performance metrics like cycle time or code quality has been a manual, frustrating process. We built the Cortex AI Impact Dashboard to provide a clear answer.

Your metrics, your way: Announcing custom views in Engineering Intelligence

Every engineering organization measures success differently. A dashboard that’s perfect for one team might be meaningless for another. While out-of-the-box views for DORA are a great starting point, leaders need the ability to define and share the specific combination of metrics that matter most to their business. Without this, you're either forcing your teams to conform to generic reports or wasting time rebuilding the same views every week.

Announcing the AI chief of staff for engineering leaders

You see MTTR creeping up, but you don’t know why. You could ask your teams, but that means meetings, pulling people off projects, and waiting days for answers. What if you could just…ask? We’re excited to introduce the new strategic AI chief of staff for engineering leadership, powered by the Cortex MCP. By connecting your Engineering Intelligence data with your scorecards and standards, the MCP allows you to have a strategic conversation about your organization’s performance.