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Airline operations have only one real challenge.

When plans meet reality.

6 AM: A First Officer calls in sick.

Crew control works the phones, the nearest qualified reserve is across the field. The flight's held 20 minutes.

Gate planning re-sequences the bank, connections start to fall.

The aircraft's behind for an afternoon rotation, dispatch re-files, the day's buffer is gone.

dCortex is a System of Action that coordinates crews, gates, schedules, maintenance, and operational constraints, helping airlines recover faster and operate with greater confidence under pressure.

dCortex in action
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No rip-and-replace

No modernization or complex data engineering. Works the way your operation already does.

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Existing systems, messy data

Connects to what you have — wherever the data lives, even in your operators' heads.

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Results in weeks

A 90-day path to production. Not a multi-year transformation.

Built to act.

Build your own use case

Crew, passenger, baggage, dispatch, gate, ramp. Talk to us, we'll build this together.

What you get

Shape the product. Your real use cases get prioritised. The roadmap bends toward your operation.
Live in weeks, not years. A 90-day path to production.
No rip-and-replace. Works with your existing systems and messy data, wherever it lives, even in your operators' heads.
A team in the room. Our engineers sit with your controllers in the OCC — not answering tickets from a queue.

What we look for in a partner

A real operational problem you want gone.
The access to your ops and data to co-build it.
A team ready to move at our pace.

Recognize the juggle?
Let's build the better way together.

How airlines use dCortex

Live in production · Crew operations

A hub carrier put dCortex into crew operations in 90 days.

What changed

Before

~20min

Controllers on 3 monitors, across 6 applications.

With dCortex

5min

One console, two clicks to approve or reject.

"Love this — I feel like I'm in the Matrix."

— A crew controller

"I can finally see the impact of decisions and plan ahead. Love it."

— An operations executive

Where else dCortex acts

Disruption recovery (IRROPS)

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A sick call or a storm. dCortex reasons across crew, gates and dispatch to recover the day before the cascade runs.

Gate & turnaround

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Re-sequences the bank and protects connections when an aircraft slips behind.

Passenger re-accommodation

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Rebooks and re-protects passengers the moment a flight is at risk, not hours later.

Crew, gate, dispatch, maintenance are one view, not ten tabs.

dCortex platform — crew and operations unified view

Manage by exception.

The system surfaces what's breaking, not everything that's fine.

Reads your rules, not just your data.

Policy manuals, union contracts, FAA regs are ingested directly — no manual re-coding every time a contract changes.

Works with your existing systems.

No rip-and-replace. dCortex reads from your legacy systems, real-time feeds, and unstructured data — wherever it lives.

Reasons across domains.

Crew, gates, schedules, maintenance — the cross-domain reasoning your controllers do by hand today, done continuously.

Acts, with a human in the loop.

dCortex recommends and executes across your systems of record. The controller stays in command — ask, approve, see.

Learns your operation.

dCortex sees every disruption and makes the next recovery faster.

Is AI Trustworthy?

On their own, models can miss context, miss edge cases, hallucinate, and be manipulated. That's the hard part we built around.

Constraints checking.

Every action is checked against your business rules and regulations.

Human-in-the-loop.

dCortex proposes and acts under your controllers' approval. Nothing happens behind their backs.

Edge cases.

A forward-deployed team feeds real-world edge cases back into the platform continuously.

Logging & observability.

Every decision is traceable and auditable.

Rollback.

You stay in control of what executes.

Have a harder question?

Dani — dCortex co-founder
Elango — dCortex co-founder

Our team has spent decades building systems that operate under real-world pressure.

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We are a small team solving a problem that has frustrated airline operations for decades. Come work on what actually matters.