The One Decision You Should Look at Next
Finance, security, and HR each have their own queue and their own scale. Trust CORTEX puts them on one scale and surfaces the single highest-risk decision awaiting approval - across every domain.
Illustrative product view
One scale across domains
Risk lives in silos - the finance approval queue, the security review backlog, the HR access-change list - each with its own notion of severity. No one can say which single pending decision is the riskiest right now. Trust CORTEX (/api/cortex, /api/cortex/decisions) ranks the highest-risk decision awaiting approval across all domains on one common scale, so attention goes to what matters most first.
Decision risk
decision_risk = 100 · trust_drop · exposure · urgency
A decision’s risk combines how far trust has dropped, how much is exposed, and how urgent it is - computed the same way across finance, security, and HR so the domains are comparable.
CORTEX recomputes, it doesn’t trust the source
A cross-domain ranker is only credible if it does not simply believe each domain’s self-reported severity. normalize_external_decision has CORTEX recompute risk from the decision’s underlying factors rather than trusting the source’s number. That is what makes a finance risk and an HR risk genuinely comparable on the same scale.
Cross-domain, when connected
- Ranks pending decisions on one recomputed risk scale
- Surfaces the single highest-risk decision to act on next
- Normalizes external decisions instead of trusting their scores
- Cross-domain fetch is opt-in and fail-soft
How it connects
CORTEX sits above the per-action decision layer: individual actions get an Action Trust Score, and CORTEX ranks the consequential pending decisions across domains. It is the executive view of decision intelligence, and reviewing a high-risk CORTEX decision is one of the triggers that adaptive trust records.
Frequently asked questions
What is Trust CORTEX?
Trust CORTEX is a cross-domain risk ranker that puts finance, security, and HR decisions on one scale and surfaces the single highest-risk decision awaiting approval. It computes each decision’s risk from trust drop, exposure, and urgency, so decisions from different domains are directly comparable.
How does CORTEX compare risk across domains?
It uses one formula - decision risk = 100 × trust drop × exposure × urgency - applied consistently across domains, and it recomputes external decisions rather than trusting their self-reported severity. That makes a finance risk score and an HR risk score genuinely comparable on the same scale.
Does CORTEX trust the risk scores other systems report?
No. normalize_external_decision has CORTEX recompute risk from the decision’s underlying factors instead of accepting the source’s number. This prevents one domain’s inflated or deflated scoring from distorting the cross-domain ranking.
Is cross-domain ranking available out of the box?
CORTEX ranks the domains it can see immediately. Pulling decisions from other domains is opt-in and requires configuration (for example CORTEX_HR_API_URL and CORTEX_COMPLIANCE_API_URL), and the fetch is fail-soft. So full cross-domain ranking is available when those connections are configured.
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