CortexQA Investor Pitch Deck

Seed Round | Q1 2026

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1. SOVEREIGN INTELLIGENCE

"The Intelligence of ChatGPT. The Security of a Vault. The Accountability of a Courtroom."

CortexQA is the world's first Cognitive AI Appliance for regulated industries.

2. THE $50 BILLION PRIVACY PARADOX

40% of the economy is locked out of the AI revolution.

Regulated industries cannot use Cloud AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) because data privacy laws conflict with data transmission.

Vertical The "Compliance Wall" Annual Pain
LEGAL Uploading client data = Privilege Waiver $15B/yr in manual review
HEALTH Cloud transmission = HIPAA Violation $150K/yr per physician
FINANCE Data egress = SEC/GDPR Breach 45-60 days to close loans

"To use AI, they must break the law. So they don't."

3. THE SOLUTION: BRING AI TO THE DATA

We don't move the data to the cloud. We move the AI to the secure room.

CortexQA is a physical, air-gapped appliance that plugs into the enterprise network.

Solution Architecture

Key Capabilities:

  • 100% Air-Gapped: Zero data egress.
  • Zero Hallucination: Guaranteed by Epistemic Firewall™.
  • Causal Reasoning: Answers "Why", not just "What".

4. TECHNOLOGY: BEYOND PATTERN MATCHING

Standard RAG guesses. Causal AI knows.

We replace probabilistic guessing with deterministic validation.

Cognitive Engine Architecture

The Secret Sauce:

  1. Causal Hypergraph™: Maps regulations as immutable rules.
  2. Epistemic Firewall™: 5-layer validation. If it can't cite a source, it stays silent.

5. WHY NOW? THE PERFECT STORM

Three catalysts are converging to make Private AI inevitable.

  1. REGULATION: EU AI Act & SEC Cyber Rules now mandate explainability. "Black box" AI is a liability.
  2. HARDWARE: NVIDIA DGX & Jetson price drops make local inference viable ($4k entry point vs. $100k previously).
  3. TRUST CRISIS: High-profile disasters (Samsung Leak, ChatGPT Lawyer) have frozen enterprise cloud adoption.

The market is desperate for a safe alternative.

6. MARKET STRATEGY: THE BOWLING PIN

Total Addressable Market (TAM): $50B+

  1. 🎳 HEAD PIN: LEGAL DISCOVERY

    • Target: Am Law 200 Firms
    • Pain: "Hair on fire" extraction deadlines.
    • TAM: $15B

  2. HEALTHCARE RECORDS

    • Trigger: HIPAA Compliance
    • TAM: $20B

  3. GOVERNMENT (FedRAMP)

    • Trigger: National Security
    • TAM: $15B

7. TRACTION

Validated Demand & Technology

  • PRODUCT: Production Ready. 51 API Endpoints. 94% Intent Accuracy.
  • CUSTOMERS: 2 Active Am Law 200 Pilots.
    • Quote: "We were desperate for this."
  • PIPELINE: $2.4M in qualified opportunities.
  • PARTNERS:
    • Ingram Micro: Hardware Logistics
    • NVIDIA: Compute Allocation

8. BUSINESS MODEL

The "Apple for Enterprise AI" Flywheel

We combine high-margin software with sticky hardware.

Revenue Stream Pricing Economics Strategy
HARDWARE $25K - $500K High Switching Cost Physical Lock-in
SOFTWARE $12K - $96K/yr 85% Margin Recurring Revenue
SERVICES $0 - $1M+ Varies Enterprise Integration

Unit Economics:

  • LTV:CAC: > 4.5x
  • Payback: < 10 Months

9. COMPETITION

The Only Safe & Smart Option

Most competitors are stuck in the cloud. We are native to the secure room.

Competitive Quadrant

10. FINANCIALS

Path to $100M ARR

Conservative projections (Hardware + Software only). Excludes Services upside.

  • Year 1: $2.1M (Validation & Pilots)
  • Year 2: $5.4M (Scale & Partners)
  • Year 3: $10.5M (Break-Even)

Exit Potential:
Strategic acquisition target for RELX, Thomson Reuters, or Microsoft.

11. TEAM

Born from 9 Years of Enterprise AI

Spun out of Manceps (Est. 2017) — A leader in custom AI for regulated industries.

  • AL KARI (CEO): 9 years building enterprise AI solutions.
  • GARRETT LANDER (CTO): Architect of Causal Hypergraph™.
  • DEBRA QUINN (COO): Operational excellence in regulated markets.
  • DANIEL ROWE (VP GTM): Enterprise sales strategy.

12. VISION

The Operating System for Regulated Knowledge

"Every secure room in the world will have a CortexQA box."

RAISING $3.5M SEED

  • 43% R&D (Patents, Model Training)
  • 29% Sales & Marketing
  • 14% Ops/Legal

Milestone (18 mo): $1M+ ARR and SOC 2 Type II / HIPAA Certification.

Contact: founders@cortex.qa | www.cortex.qa