The early-warning system for Indian businesses — by MNB Research

Your books tell you what happened. Cortex tells you what's about to. 

Cortex reads your Tally, Vyapar or Excel exports and watches them every day. It tells you who hasn’t paid, what’s due and what’s about to run out — by email, before it costs you. Keep your accounting software. This is the part it was never built to do.

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Revenue (MTD)
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Cash runway
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Cortex Score
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Revenue trendlast 12 weeks
Cortex

Cash is healthy, but receivables aged 45+ days rose 22%. I’ve drafted 3 polite reminders and a ₹6L working-capital plan — approve to send.

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(01)The problem

Running an SME shouldn’t mean flying blind.

You’re the CEO, CFO, head of sales and firefighter — all at once. Cortex takes the analysis and the busywork off your plate.

Today

You find out a customer hasn't paid when you need the cash.

With Cortex

Cortex emails you the day an invoice crosses its due date — with the name and the number.

Today

You pay a small supplier late and lose the deduction at year end.

With Cortex

It watches the MSME 45-day clock (43B(h)) and tells you which bills to clear first.

Today

A GST or TDS date passes and you find out from a notice.

With Cortex

Every statutory deadline that applies to you, warned before — not after.

Today

Your numbers live in Tally, spreadsheets and WhatsApp.

With Cortex

Upload the export. Cortex reads Tally, Vyapar and Busy files as they come.

Today

You're too busy running the business to sit and analyse it.

With Cortex

One email on Monday: the three things worth your attention this week.

Today

Your CA opens thirty files to find the client in trouble.

With Cortex

The Practice console ranks every client by who needs them — on one screen.

Now see it for your industry.

Cortex speaks your business — not generic dashboards. Pick yours and see the exact problems it watches and the tools it uses to fix them.

Manufacturing

Make more, waste less, get paid faster.

What keeps you up at night
  • Stock-outs on some SKUs, dead inventory on others
  • Margins per product are thin and unclear
  • Big buyers stretch your receivables for months
How Cortex handles it
  • Reorder Optimizer (EOQ + safety stock)
  • Per-SKU unit economics & pricing
  • Receivables & DSO chase-first list
  • 13-week cash flow for long cycles

The outcome: Know exactly what to make, what to charge, and who to chase — before it costs you.

Get started for Manufacturing
(02)Free · 60 seconds

How healthy is your business, really?

Six questions. No signup, no card, no sales call unless you ask for one. You get a Business Health Score out of 100, the specific areas putting you at risk, and exactly what to do about each one.

  • Your score and risk band, instantly
  • The weak areas named, not hinted at
  • A fix plan mapped to the tools that solve it
  • The full report emailed to you

Used by owners across manufacturing, retail, distribution and services.

Question 1 of 60%

Do you know your exact cash runway right now?

(03)What it is

Dashboards store numbers. Chatbots forget you. MNB Cortex remembers — and acts. One operating brain that monitors, predicts, recommends and executes across your whole company — and gets sharper every week you use it.

()The moat

Anyone can wrap an AI. This can’t be copied.

The advantage compounds with every day you use it — and can’t be bolted on after the fact.

01
A memory that compounds

Every workspace builds its own permanent brain — decisions, numbers, context, preferences — that gets sharper every single day. A rival starting today starts from zero for each customer; your Cortex only deepens. The data moat is private, per-customer, and grows on its own.

02
One brain, not 130 point tools

Finance, sales, ops and 438 agents draw on the same memory and your live data, so answers stay consistent across the company. You can bolt a chatbot onto a dashboard — you can't retrofit a unified operating brain.

03
It acts, not just answers

Cortex reads your real bank statements and GST returns, drafts the reminder, PO or plan, and — with one approval — sends it. Advice is a commodity. A system that closes the loop across every function is not.

04
Vertical depth × the AI-search era

Tuned to 27 Indian industries and built to get you recommended when buyers ask an AI assistant. Generic tools can't match the depth, and latecomers can't catch a head start that compounds.

Built by
MNB Research

India's business growth & consultancy specialists

Featured on
Shark Tank India

and 160+ press outlets, 60M+ reach

Recognised
DPIIT startup

Government of India recognised

From the makers of
AbroBot

India's AI study-abroad platform

0-day
MSME clock, watched
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statutory deadlines tracked
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email a week — that's it
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to your first warning
(04)Everything you get

Not one AI trick.
An operating system for your business.

130 modules, 438 agents and a permanent memory — organised into the jobs you actually need done. Here’s the whole thing.

Understand your business

Business Health Dashboard

Every KPI on one page, with a live Cortex Score.

Bank Statement Intelligence

Upload a statement → real cashflow, trends, recurring spend, runway.

GST Return Reader

Turnover, tax split, ITC utilisation & net payable in seconds.

13-week Cash Flow

Rolling runway you can model, seeded from your ledger.

Import & Data Explorer

CSV or a shared Google Sheet — then query it all.

Benchmarks & Risk Radar

See where you stand and what threatens you.

Think & decide

Ask Cortex

Ask about your own rows — it looks them up, in English or Hinglish.

Cortex Deep Dive

Diagnose → decide → draft the first action, in three passes.

Forecasting & Scenarios

90-day forecast with interactive what-ifs.

Strategy Consultant

SWOT, growth levers and a prioritised plan.

Executive Reports

Board-ready reviews you can print or save as PDF.

28 Business Calculators

Margins, GST, payroll, valuation, ratios & more.

Act & automate

AI Outreach

Drafts reminders & follow-ups; you approve, it sends.

Marketing Studio

Full campaign kits — copy, posts and emails in one click.

438 AI Agents

A 7-department AI workforce across 27 Indian industries.

Workflows & Approvals

Automate the busywork with a human in the loop.

WhatsApp Broadcast

Personalised messages, ready for you to send.

AI Autopilot

Runs a daily analysis and briefs you each morning.

Grow & get found

AI Visibility (AEO)

See whether Gemini recommends you — and fix it.

Pipeline + Lead Scoring

A scored pipeline that tells you who to chase.

Churn Predictor

Spot at-risk customers before they leave.

Pricing Optimizer

Find the price your market will bear.

Sales Targets & Funnel

Plan targets and fix the leaky funnel.

LTV & Segments

Know your best customers and their lifetime value.

Remember & run the back office

Cortex Memory

A permanent second brain that sharpens every answer.

GST & Compliance

Filing calendar, ITC set-off and GST invoicing.

Payroll & CTC

Take-home, EPF/ESI, gratuity and appraisals.

Contract Review

AI reads a contract and flags the real risks.

Public API + 4 live syncs

Shopify, Razorpay, Stripe, Sheets — plus Tally & Vyapar file imports.

Security & RLS

Row-level isolation, encryption, export anytime.

(06)How it works

It doesn’t just report. It runs the loop.

01
Monitors

Reads sales, finance, inventory, production & HR in real time.

02
Predicts

Forecasts stockouts, churn and cash crunches before they hit.

03
Recommends

Boardroom-grade advice, grounded in your live numbers.

04
Remembers

A permanent memory that sharpens every answer over time.

05
Executes

Drafts POs, invoices, reminders, emails and reports for you.

(07)Who it’s for
Manufacturers

Stock-outs, margins, production and receivables — watched daily.

D2C & retail

Funnels, CAC, inventory and pricing in one place.

Services & agencies

Project profitability, capacity and proposals.

Founders & CXOs

A COO-grade brain for every decision, at a fraction of the cost.

(08)Why not an ERP, CRM or ChatGPT?

Those store or chat. Cortex acts on your data.

CortexERPCRMChatGPT
Reads all your business dataYesPartlyPartlyNo
Diagnoses problemsYesNoNoPartly
Predicts outcomesYesNoNoNo
Recommends actionsYesNoNoPartly
Executes tasks for youYesNoNoNo
Remembers your businessYesPartlyPartlyNo
Plain-language answersYesNoNoYes
(09)The math

What could catching this early save you?

281 hrs/yr
time saved on manual reporting
≈ ₹6 L
est. annual upside from faster, better decisions

Illustrative estimate. Your mileage varies with how much you let the AI execute.

(11)Questions

Good to know.

ERPs and CRMs store data. MNB Cortex reads across all of it, diagnoses problems, predicts what's coming, recommends actions, and executes the busywork — like a COO, not a filing cabinet.

Yes. Every workspace is isolated with Postgres row-level security, traffic is encrypted with TLS, sensitive keys use AES-256-GCM, and you can export or delete your data anytime.

No. You ask questions in plain language (English or Hinglish), load a demo dataset or connect your tools, and Cortex does the analysis and drafting for you.

Indian SMEs — manufacturers, D2C and retail brands, services and agencies, and founders who want a COO-grade brain without a COO-grade salary.

Cortex runs on credits. Buy a ₹149 pack and use it with no subscription, or pick a plan from ₹799/mo for a monthly allowance — billed securely via Cashfree. Your free Business Health Check needs no card at all. Prices are in INR; international customers are onboarded by our team.

Give your business a brain.

Create your workspace in under a minute — no card. Connect your numbers, then add ₹149 of credits (or a plan) and ask Cortex how your business is really doing.