Take the guesswork out of energy
Do your best work with real-time access to energy information.
Reduce energy use, effortlessly
Deliver high-performing buildings—without investing in new equipment—by using Cortex to improve visibility into energy use, drive action, and prove the impact of your actions.
Attract top-tier tenants Stand out from the crowd with tech-enabled energy efficiency initiatives.
Optimize operational efficiency
Integrate energy efficiency into your daily processes. Give your building team the insights they need to do their best work.
Reduce operating costs
Manage your energy consumption, take the guesswork out of M&V, and demonstrate the impact of energy initiatives.
Trusted by property managers
“Cortex helps us significantly cut costs. Energy is a good portion of a building’s operating budget so any time you can reduce those costs it affects the NOI for the building.”
Susan Curtis
Senior Real Estate Manager, CBRE for Savanna
Attract and retain tenants
Make energy a competitive differentiator in the flight to quality. Effectively demonstrate how you’re reducing your carbon footprint and theirs.
Cortex enables you to:
- Market your building successfully with external certifications and reporting like LEED, Energy Star, and GRESB.
- Visualize your building’s energy use and occupancy trends to get tenant buy-in to efficiency measures.
- Lower your tenant’s utility costs.
- Easily share energy data with your tenants.
“Public-facing tenants are doing their own evaluations on sustainability. The data from Cortex is readily available for us to share with them.”
– Property Manager
Operate efficiently
Arm your building engineers with real-time energy insights to fine-tune energy usage and reduce bill spend, all while digitalizing processes.
With Cortex in hand, you can:
- Minimize energy waste and maximize savings.
- Extend the life of your HVAC equipment.
- Capture energy SOPs to operationalize efficiency.
Improve your bottom line
Easily access bill data and uncover which factors impact your utility costs, consumption, and bottom line.
Cortex‘s data-driven platform lets you:
- Take the guesswork out of variance reporting with built-in energy bill analysis.
- Know if your energy efficiency initiatives are driving impact with Measurement and Verification (M&V).
- Weather and occupancy-normalized baselines help you verify savings.
“Cortex allows me to monitor the building’s financial performance and energy savings closely. I can look at the data on a weekly, monthly, or annual basis to control spend.” – Property Manager
Built for property managers and building engineers
Supercharge your team
Empower your building engineers with clear guidelines to boost building efficiency.
Easily access insights
Give your team instant access to energy performance with Cortex’s mobile app, anytime, anywhere.
Partner with experts
Work together with our building analytics and energy management experts to deploy best practices.
Cortex FAQs
Does Cortex work on mobile devices?
With our mobile app for energy management, your building team can view and implement energy recommendations from anywhere in the building using the device they have in their hand. User-friendly and easy to navigate, it lets them assess recommendations and, using the ‘push to accept’ feature, modifying the BMS with just one click.
Does Cortex integrate with my existing Building Management System (BMS)?
We integrate with over 30 leading brands, including Alerton, Automated Logic, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Tridium, to help you maximize your current systems without extensive new investments.
What type of data does Cortex collect?
Cortex automatically collects hundreds of thousands of data points from your BMS, energy meters, and utility bills, to create a precise dynamic profile of your building. We enrich the building data, gathered in 15-minute intervals, with external data like hyperlocal weather and regulatory requirements.