Peak Performance Without Burning People Out.
An AI system that forecasts cognitive capacity and burnout risk across teams.
In a world of infinite workload, your advantage isn't time, it's your people's energy and attention. CORTQ helps you manage capacity, focus, and resilience in real time, with privacy by design.
- VP Engineering / R&D leaders
- CTOs scaling teams
- People leaders facing burnout & overload
Works where work actually happens
CortQ integrates with the systems that create cognitive load, not the systems that just record people.
Because that’s where attention gets fragmented: meetings, messages, tasks, and after-hours. That’s where measurement and intervention matter.
Your employees show up. The question is: is their mind there?
Research shows the hidden cost of presenteeism can be up to 10x higher than visible absenteeism.
People are “online” but cognitively unavailable. Output falls while headcount stays fixed.
Your best operators burn out. The hidden cost is re-ramping context, not replacement.
Constant switching erodes deep work. Quality drops before anyone notices.
How it works
Science, not guesswork. A privacy-first operating model for sustainable high performance.
Detect anomalies in digital and cognitive load without disrupting workflows.
AI models signals against proven research frameworks and performance patterns.
Recommend action to the employee (break) or leader (deadline/plan changes).
Two layers. One operating system.
Employee Shield protects the individual. Manager Command optimizes the organization, while keeping personal data personal.
See load, focus, and recovery trends, updated continuously.
Daily calibration, smart nudges, and focus blocks, without surveillance.
Heatmaps, load balancing, and early risk signals, based on aggregated trends.
Not bossware. Personal data stays private. Managers see trends and risks, not content.
A structured journey: stabilization → rhythm → resilience & scale → success layer.
Employee Shield + Manager Command
Two experiences, one system: private guidance for employees and aggregated clarity for leaders.
ROI & Impact
Improve output and retention by reducing cognitive drag, the invisible tax on execution.
Reduce presenteeism and the invisible drag on execution.
Prevent knowledge bottlenecks before they become business risk.
Move from gut-feel management to data-driven organizational readiness.
Build teams that can sustain high performance without burnout.
CORTQ gives leaders a way to protect attention, reduce overload, and build durable execution, without turning the workplace into surveillance.
An evolutionary journey
Roll out the Cognitive Operating System in stages, from baseline to compounding resilience.
Establish a baseline: load, switching, recovery, and the patterns driving burnout risk.
Build a sustainable cadence: focus blocks, meeting hygiene, and high-leverage interventions.
Make performance compounding: predict dips, protect deep work, and stabilize throughput.
Guided onboarding, quarterly business reviews, and an optional dedicated success manager.
Why now?
Three reasons organizations need a human-capacity operating system now, not later.
Presenteeism is the hidden unemployment tax: full salary, partial output.
More apps add more load, surveillance breaks trust, and wellness arrives too late.
Cognitive turnover happens months before attrition. Prevent knowledge black holes.
Think like an elite sports team: not just who showed up, but who is fit to perform, when to rotate, and how to prevent collapse.
Technology & Methodology
CORTQ is built on a hybrid signal core and a privacy-first architecture, so leaders get clarity without exposing individuals.
CORTQ combines multiple layers of signals to model capacity, attention switching, and recovery, and turns them into interventions leaders can apply.
A practical operating model focused on sustainable performance, not hustle.
Aggregated and anonymized by design. No content mining. No bossware.
Employee Shield stays personal. Manager Command stays organizational.
The employee experience is private. The manager view is aggregated. No content mining, no surveillance. Just a better operating system.
Receive an executive-ready snapshot of overload, focus loss, and high-leverage interventions, without exposing individual data.
Vision
Build organizations where excellence is sustainable, where focus, recovery, and resilience are part of the operating system.
Employee Shield stays personal. Manager Command is aggregated and anonymized by default.
Performance comes from systems, not pressure. We optimize for sustainable output.
Turn cognitive signals into decisions leaders can act on, without guesswork.
A compounding loop of measurement, interventions, and learning across teams.