Models keep getting smarter.None of them get smarter about your company.

Today's AI can write code.
It can't run a business.

Coding works because the rules are clear and the answer is right or wrong.

Real work isn't like that. To finish a single customer task, an AI has to know how your team actually works right now. What's a refund versus a credit. Who owns this account. What changed last Tuesday.

Most AI agents don't know any of that.

They guess. Then they act.

The best AI in the world fails three out of four times.

The leading real-world agent benchmark, τ³-bench, tests whether an agent can finish a customer task. Book the right thing. Follow the actual policy. Get the details right.

That's not a model problem. The smartest AI in the world still can't see how your business actually runs. Without that picture, every action is a guess.

100%

pass rate on τ³-bench. Even given the exact reference documents, it rises to only 40%.

Source: τ³-bench · 2026

Cortal is the live
operating picture of how
your company actually runs.

Every tool, every conversation, every decision. Kept current. So any agent, on any model, can show up tomorrow and already know how the place works.

LIVE · NOW
11:42:03
11:42hubspot · deal-2841stage advanced to closed-won
11:41slack · #cs-escalthread-194 needs follow-up
11:40stripe · invoice-77paid in full · $14,200
11:38zendesk · ticket-209escalated to engineering
11:35gmail · thread-301reply from procurement
11:32linear · ENG-482merged to main

every tool · every conversation · every decision · kept current

Three jobs.
One layer.

  • a.

    Reads what's true.

    Cortal pulls from your real systems. Not docs. Not a snapshot. Your AI works from how the business is right now, not how it was last quarter.

  • b.

    Catches what isn't.

    When two sources disagree or a detail is missing, Cortal makes the AI pause and tell you, instead of pushing forward and breaking something.

  • c.

    Shows its work.

    Every action your AI takes is tied back to what it knew at the time. When something goes wrong, you find out why in seconds, not days.

The hard part was never the model.
It was everything around it.

Frontline time on the support side, watching teams learn things over months that no doc ever captured. Cortal is the part I kept wishing existed.

Tom Bridger, founder of Cortal
Tom BridgerFounder

Give the next agent a first day
that feels like day 500.