§PRODUCT
Meet Cortex.
Cortex is the brain we build into your business. It holds what you and your team know, and puts it to work, so the business runs without everything running through you.
§THE IDEA
A business runs on what a few people know.
How to price a tricky job. Which supplier to trust. How each client likes things done. Most of it lives with one or two people, and everyone else waits on them. Cortex captures it, organizes it by function instead of by person, and turns it into something the whole team can use. It watches the whole operation, tells you what’s moving and what needs you, and answers the way the person who runs that part of the business would, without anyone hunting them down.
§THE FULL BUILD
Getting the founder’s time back.
Case study · a custom corporate packaging company
A custom corporate packaging company makes presentation pieces for globally recognized names across luxury, hospitality, and entertainment. Like a lot of great companies, it runs through one person — its founder. Every quote, every spec, every “how do we handle this client” comes back to her desk. The north star was simple: give her her time back.
This is Cortex in full: the whole operation under one brain, shaped to how the business runs. It brings the everyday tools the business needs (costing and finance, inventory and procurement, project management) and ties them to what the team already uses; their materials sheet stays right where it is, in Google Sheets. Part of the build is an AI procurement employee: it watches stock, flags what’s running low, and handles reorders with suppliers, so the supply side keeps moving on its own.
Day to day, it captures how the founder works (paste a Viber thread, photo a sample, jot a note), drafts a first cost from the chat and waits for her yes, and every morning tells her what moved overnight and what needs her. The team gets answers without coming to her desk. She gets her time back.
Drafted a first cost for the spirits-client gift box from last night’s Viber thread.
Filed the new sample photo against the sport-client launch; spec sheet updated.
The music-client quote is drafted and waiting on your yes; margin is tighter than usual.
§WHY IT’S DIFFERENT
The power is in the connections.
The point isn’t any one tool. It’s that everything shares the same brain and ties together the tools you already use instead of replacing them, so what Sales knows, Finance knows, and the business moves as one instead of in pieces. That’s the difference between a handful of chatbots and a system that actually runs the work.
§IN CONTROL
You stay in control.
Cortex doesn’t act behind your back. It drafts, then waits for your yes. You review, approve, or undo, every time. It earns trust the way a good new hire does, before it’s handed the keys.
§READY TO RUN
Or start with a product, not a build.
Not every business needs the full build. Some of what Cortex does, we’ve packaged into products you can subscribe to and use from day one: a focused start, with the full brain there when you’re ready for it.
Lantern watches every bid source the moment a tender posts, reads the requirements, and scores each one against what you can actually win: your capacity, your track record, your margins. It tells you where to bid and where to walk, and shows the reasoning behind every call, not just a number you’re asked to trust.
Most teams either chase everything and burn weeks on bids they were never going to land, or go on gut and miss the ones they could have won. Lantern hands you a short list with the case for each, working from the day you start.
We run it ourselves, to find the contracts we bid on.
Supply & install, regional facility upgrade
BID →Close to three you’ve won. Scope sits inside your range, and the buyer pays on time.
Multi-year maintenance contract, public sector
BID →Recurring revenue, light competition this cycle, and your record fits the brief.
Design-build, outside your usual scope
WALKNeeds a specialty you’d subcontract, the margin is thin, and the field is crowded.
Solo-OS gives a one-person practice a team of AI employees, each shaped to a job you’d otherwise hire for: one drafts, one keeps your files and paperwork in order, one tracks every deadline and chases the follow-ups. The day-to-day of running the practice gets handled without you doing every piece of it yourself.
For the solo lawyer, accountant, or consultant who’s the rainmaker, the deliverer, and the admin all at once, that means taking on more clients without the cost of hiring, and no longer being the only thing keeping every deadline from slipping.
Currently in development.
Drafting a routine lease. → handed to Files
12 drafted todayFiling that draft under the right client.
9 filed todayFlagged a deadline six days out. → told Billing
3 deadlines trackedChasing an overdue invoice.
2 sent · 1 overdue§START
Start with a conversation, or a class.
The easiest first step is a free intro session: no pitch, just a clear look.
Or just email hello@frankenstein.ph