Cognex
Why Cognex What it does Example Trust Pricing
For teams that have outgrown tribal knowledge

Give your company a memory.

The memory layer for your company.

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Why Cognex

Not another AI. A memory for your company.

Ask it anything and it answers well. Then the chat ends — and it forgets your company ever existed. Tomorrow, someone re-explains the same context from scratch.

Cognex is an AI assistant your team can use like any other — research, writing, questions, code. The difference: it holds your entire company's memory. Every decision, every goal, who reports to whom. Nothing your team already figured out gets re-explained, re-discovered, or lost when someone leaves.

Not a dashboard for what your customers bought — the memory for what your company itself decided, and who's cleared to know it. Built for any team, any industry, not one vertical.

What it does

One memory. Everything that used to leak out of it, handled.

Decision Memory

Every decision, and the reasoning behind it, lives in one place — connected to your company's actual context, not scattered across docs nobody reopens.

Goal Alignment

Company goal → department → team → individual. "Why am I doing this" always traces back to real strategy.

The Clearance Engine

Every answer is graded to the asker's own place in the org — the full record for those cleared to see it, the derived takeaway for everyone else. Chain of command, protected automatically.

Ask Cognex anything

A real AI assistant grounded in all of the above — permission-checked before anything reaches it, so the answer is always the right size.

See it in a familiar org

If an early Apple had one memory

A hypothetical, not a customer story. The same question about killing Lisa to bet on the Mac, asked by three people at three levels of the same company — each getting exactly the version of the truth Cognex's Clearance Engine allows for their level.

SJ
Steve Jobs
CEO
Layer 1
Asks Cognex: “Why did we really let Lisa die and bet everything on the Mac?”
Cognex: “Lisa cost $9,995 and buyers weren't there. Once the Mac proved we could ship most of the same ideas for a quarter of the price, keeping Lisa alive only ate into the machine we actually believed in — so we stopped making it and moved the team onto Mac.”
Source accessFull record, including the real Lisa sales numbers — nothing is above the CEO's own clearance.
PM
A marketing lead
Product Marketing
Layer 2
Asks Cognex: “Why did we price the Mac at $2,495 — a quarter of what Lisa cost?”
Cognex: “Cost plus target margin put the floor near $2,000; leadership added roughly $500 for the launch push. The whole point was pricing it for a person, not a corporation — everything Lisa wasn't.”
Derived contextThe reasoning and the Lisa comparison survive; the raw cost sheet — above this layer's clearance — doesn't.
GB
A Genius Bar employee
Apple Store, Retail
Layer 3
Asks Cognex: “Decades later — can I tell a customer what's coming in the next iPhone?”
Cognex: “No — nothing about unreleased hardware. You can offer trade-in credit toward whatever ships next, and point them to apple.com to get notified the moment something's announced.”
RestrictedToday's public-facing facts only, worded the way the company wants a customer to hear them.

Same memory, three correctly-scoped answers — the top gets the full record, everyone below gets exactly enough, and nothing said in confidence has to be re-explained by whoever happened to be in the room.

Trust & security

Built to protect what it remembers

Cognex exists to hold your company's most sensitive reasoning — the architecture around it isn't an afterthought.

Isolated by company

Every company's decisions, goals, and people are scoped to that company alone. Nothing crosses between organizations, ever.

Checked before the model sees it

The Clearance Engine strips anything above a viewer's clearance on our own servers, before a request ever reaches the AI — not a prompt asking it to behave.

Never used for training

Your data is sent to industry-leading AI providers under standard API terms — never used to train their models.

A full audit trail

The Access Ledger records who saw what, and when — exportable for compliance review on the Enterprise plan.

Pricing

Plans that grow with your team

Every plan includes Decision Memory, Goal Alignment, and Ask Cognex.

Starter
$19/user/mo
For small teams getting their memory started
  • Up to 25 members
  • Decision Memory & Goal Alignment
  • Ask Cognex
  • Company Tree
  • Email support
Most popular
Business
$39/user/mo
For growing teams that need real memory hygiene
  • Everything in Starter
  • Complete the Story
  • Slack-native capture
  • Handoff Capture
  • Priority support
Enterprise
Custom
For organizations with real compliance needs
  • Everything in Business
  • Access Ledger & audit exports
  • SSO & custom onboarding
  • Dedicated support & SLA

Pricing shown is illustrative and confirmed with every team during a demo.

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Cognex

The memory layer for your company.

What it does Example Trust Pricing
CognexStaff console
Cognex
Cognex
Company memory
Chats
Workspace
Demo: preview as
Viewing memory as
    In production you'd only ever be signed in as yourself — this switcher exists so you can preview every role in one browser session.
    Clearance, low to high
    Intern → Employee → Manager
    Director → Executive → CEO
    Source full record visible
    Derived outcome only, source hidden
    Prototype for internal review — org, decisions, goals and accounts live in this browser session and reset on reload. Sign-in is demo-only. “Ask Cognex” and “Complete the Story” call a real Claude model server-side, with permission filtering enforced before anything is sent to it; if the server's ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is unavailable, those fall back to a local rule-based engine and say so.
    🛟 You're signed in as Cognex staff, viewing this company for support.
    Generated output
    Company Brain
    Organized by department, growing sharper branches as each area gets more topics — not a growing list of individual saves.
    Company Documents
    Upload once — searchable from Ask Cognex across every future chat, not just this one.
    Company goal → department → team → individual work
    What this shows: who reports to whom, and each person's clearance — the shape of the org, visible to everyone. What it doesn't show: anyone's confidential decisions — see Decision Memory for what your clearance actually unlocks.