From Text to Sensor Streams — Intelligence That Scales.
Patented Approach to Information Processing
10+ Years Industry Expertise
Trusted by Fortune 500 Customers
Short Time to Value Through High-Efficiency AI
Extracting Insight from Massive Data — Without Massive Models
Cortical.io has spent more than a decade helping enterprises make sense of large, unstructured data sets. Our journey began with Natural Language Processing, where our patented Semantic Folding approach enabled highly reliable document understanding and automation without the heavy data, compute, or tuning requirements of deep learning.
Building on this foundation, we now apply Semantic Folding to sensor data — turning continuous streams of measurements into meaningful semantic representations. This allows industrial organizations to detect anomalies instantly, understand subtle drifts, and monitor assets with high precision across systems, or installations.
By adding a semantic intelligence layer to sensor data, Semantic Folding transforms continuous signals into meaningful patterns that can be compared, interpreted, and acted upon instantly. This eliminates the need for large, complex machine learning pipelines while accelerating deployment, and strengthening reliability at scale — enabling organizations to operate more safely, efficiently, and proactively.
July 2025
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With Cortical.io, industrial teams can add a semantic intelligence layer to their sensor data in weeks, with minimal effort and investment.
Customer Voices
“In production for over a year, we recently conducted an internal study that reported a decrease in the error rate of quotes generated by users and an overall improvement in quality by using Cortical.io.”
– Tim Harper, Head of Quote, UNUM Operations.
“Among the IDP vendors we evaluated, Cortical.io stands out for its ability to accurately process complex provisions and its user-friendly, no-code interface.”
– Christopher Howley, Head of Group Life & LTD Reinsurance, VP, Swiss Re America.
“The proof of concept performed by Siemens showed that Cortical.io natural language processing technology with its domain-specific semantic language space was able to achieve significantly better search results in the area of taxes than keyword-based search engines. It has the potential to become a key technology for semantic use cases.””
– Darja Meyer, Head of Tax Tech Lab Germany, Siemens AG.
“In the world of patient safety, most researchers had been skeptical about the value of social media because it seemed so difficult to mine for insights. But this project showed natural language processing could definitely yield results.”
– Brian Dreyfus, Epidemiologist, Bristol Myers Squibb worldwide safety department
Industry Recognition
“The InsurTech100 list for 2024 recognizes Cortical.io for addressing some of the industry’s most critical challenges by enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of underwriting processes and improving customer service. Cortical.io’s meaning-based technology impressed the jury, earning its place among the most innovative solution providers in the insurance industry.”
– Richard Sachar, FinTech Global CEO.
Gartner includes Cortical.io as a Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)*
“Cortical.io has developed an innovative AI technology based on a natural language understanding (NLU) approach to interpret and process human language text. In recent years deep learning has been used successfully to improve the quality of natural language processing (NLP) such as Amazon Comprehend and Microsoft Azure cognitive services. But these rely on the massive computational power of those industry giants. With its lower computing requirements, Cortical.io is potentially accessible to more markets and application”.
– Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Founder & Principal Analyst at Deep Analysis.
“Cortical.io was recognized for its AI-based core technology that allows information to be extracted from large volumes of unstructured documents. This has shown to drive automation, make workflows more efficient, and reduce time and costs.“
– #IDEAward 2021
“Contract Intelligence is used by Fortune 500 companies to reduce document processing costs and meet critical deadlines, while obtaining valuable insight about the information hidden in their contracts,” said Bryan Vaughn, managing director of LegalTech Breakthrough. “We are proud to honor Cortical.io with the ‘Overall Contract Automation Solution of the Year’ award for its innovative AI-backed technology solutions”.
– Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, LegalTech Breakthrough.