001/A platform for member communities
Build a place your members keep coming back to.
- spec
- v1 · multi-tenant
- scope
- 6 surfaces
- for
- communities of practice
Cortexa is the hub for professional communities — a directory, 1:1 sessions, events, a curated library, and the conversations between them, all under one membership.
002/Inside
Six surfaces, one membership.
The pieces a community-of-practice actually needs — wired together so they share members, context, and a single sign-in.
003/Two ways in
Whether you're running one or joining one.
For operators
Run a community without stitching tools together.
- Bring members in by invitation, by email domain, or by application.
- Spin up special-interest groups, each with its own discussions and events.
- Curate a library that lives behind your membership wall.
- Approve, audit, and impersonate — with a full activity log of who did what.
For members
A network that pays back the time you put into it.
- Find people working on what you're working on — and ask them directly.
- Book 30-minute sessions against their real calendar.
- Show up to events, discussions, and reading lists shaped by your peers.
- Keep one profile that travels across every community you join.
004/How it's built
Three things we believe, made into a product.
- i.
Membership is the unit.
Everything lives behind your membership wall by default. Public surfaces are a choice, not the assumption.
- ii.
Conversations carry weight.
Threads, sessions, and discussions are first-class — not afterthoughts bolted onto a content management system.
- iii.
Content sits next to people.
The library lives in the same place as the discussions that produced it and the people who use it.
005/Voices
We had four tools doing four things badly. We replaced them with one place our members actually open every week.
Twenty minutes with someone who'd already done what I was trying to do saved me a year of guessing.