Most restaurant AI runs on raw, unverified data. Cortex runs on the KPI Vault — a sealed, immutable record of certified operational truth. Every recommendation traces back to a fact, not a guess.
Where It Works
Cortex operates at two levels simultaneously — helping GMs run better shifts and giving COOs a portfolio view no spreadsheet can match.
Real Questions. Certified Answers.
Cortex is designed for operators, not data scientists. Every question is answered from certified Vault data — traceable, repeatable, and honest about what it doesn't know.
Prompt Architecture
Every prompt is routed to a structured category that determines which Vault data it retrieves, which rules it applies, and how it validates the answer before responding.
Patent-Pending Infrastructure
The infrastructure that makes Cortex trustworthy isn't the AI model — it's what the model draws from. The Registry and Vault are the immutable source of truth for system-wide continuity.
The Registry is the single authoritative source for what every KPI means across the entire system. Food cost % means the same thing in every prompt, every report, every AI answer, every certification — defined once, never redefined locally.
Eliminates definitional drift — "food cost" at Location 3 cannot mean something different than at Location 11
Governs every AI prompt — when Cortex retrieves a KPI, it uses the Registry definition, not the AI's internal weights
System-wide continuity — add a new location or new data source and the Registry ensures consistency from day one
Version controlled — if a definition changes, every historical Vault entry that used the prior version is preserved under the original definition
The Vault is where certified KPI values live permanently. Every value written to the Vault is SHA-256 sealed and timestamped. No one can alter a sealed entry. It is the ground truth the AI reasons from.
Immutable by design — sealed entries cannot be edited or deleted. A correction creates a new version, preserving the original
AI retrieval anchor — Cortex's CRAG loop retrieves from the Vault first. If the answer isn't there, Cortex says so rather than inferring
Cross-module continuity — the same Vault entry Sentry uses to certify a fee overcharge is the same entry Cortex uses to answer an operations question
Audit-ready at all times — every recommendation traces to a Vault entry ID, its seal date, and the Registry definition it was interpreted under
How Cortex Answers
Cortex doesn't generate answers from model weights alone. It retrieves from the Vault first, validates against the Registry, then generates — and corrects itself if the answer doesn't ground out in certified data.
System-Wide Continuity
The KPI Registry and Vault aren't just database infrastructure — they're what makes AI trustworthy at scale. When the same definition governs every answer across 50 locations, you stop arguing about the numbers and start acting on them.
Sentry and Cortex share the same Vault. Fee recovery certifications and operations insights draw from the same immutable source — no reconciliation needed.
Registry definitions travel with every new location. Onboard location 51 and it immediately operates on the same KPI definitions as locations 1 through 50.
Sealed Vault entries are permanent. Auditors, counsel, and board members can independently verify any AI-sourced figure at any time — without FohBoh's participation.
AI that says "I don't know" is more useful than AI that guesses. Cortex surfaces its own uncertainty — flagging when Vault coverage is insufficient rather than inferring past the data.