The Brain Behind the Byline

We don't replace your people. We give them SUPERPOWERS.
The operational brain for your newspaper.

Revenue Generation

Scoop McGrab

$0
Ad Revenue Recovered / Month

Efficiency Gains

RedEye Riley

0%
Deadlines Met
Cortex Neural Brain

Cost Savings

Columnini

0 hrs
Staff Hours Saved / Month

Production & Quality

Pulse

0
Pages Orchestrated / Month
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Revenue
Operations
Production

The CORTEX Portal

Meet Your AI Workforce

Already at work — recovering revenue, cutting costs, optimizing processes, and driving operational efficiency.

Scoop McGrab

Revenue Operations

Your relentless digital sales rep. Scoop automatically hunts down lost revenue, re-engages lapsed advertisers, and drives new monetization for your newspaper's newsletters.

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Pulse

Ad Production

Your pagination and design powerhouse. Pulse handles the heavy lifting of automated ad placement and layout generation from start to finish, freeing your team to focus on the journalism.

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RedEye Riley

Operational Efficiency

Your 24/7 ghost pilot. Riley takes the stick during the midnight crunch, using deadline-aware prioritization to keep your newspaper's production schedule perfectly on track while your team rests.

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Columnini

Financial Intelligence

Your financial orchestrator. Columnini seamlessly bridges legacy newspaper systems to eliminate manual data entry, kill billing errors, and protect your margins.

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// Shadow Reporter

Your Infrastructure — Now Intelligent

Three approaches. One brain. No matter what your systems look like, Cortex has an answer.

Integrate

API Connected

Your system has an API — we plug in directly. Real-time sync, clean data handshake.

☁️Cloud
🗄️CRM
📧Email
📊Analytics
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// SYNAPTIC DATA LINK

Direct API Integration

  • ▹Continuous Telemetry: Real-time, bi-directional data synchronization across all connected platforms.
  • ▹Zero-Latency Handshake: Instant, secure connections with your existing Cloud, CRM, and Email infrastructures.
  • ▹Autonomous Data Routing: Eliminates manual entry; information flows exactly where it's needed, when it's needed.
  • ▹Always-On Analytics: Background processing ensures your performance metrics are never out of date.
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Automate

Shadow Reporter

No API? We drive the UI for you. Cortex operates your legacy software like a human — but faster.

🖥️Billing
📋Portal
🏛️Legacy
📑Forms
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// PHANTOM OPERATIONS

Legacy System Navigation

  • ▹Ghost Pilot Deployment: AI operatives seamlessly navigate and click through your legacy interfaces just like a human would.
  • ▹Machine-Speed Execution: Complex billing, portal updates, and form submissions handled faster than humanly possible.
  • ▹No API Required: Bypasses the need for expensive custom development or vendor lock-in on outdated platforms.
  • ▹Error-Free Repetition: Flawless execution of the mundane, freeing your human staff for high-value reporting.
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Replace

Cortex-Built

When legacy is the bottleneck — we build something better. Purpose-built for newspapers.

📰Pulse
🔍Scoop
🧙Colmni
👁️RedEye
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// CORTEX PERSONNEL

Purpose-Built AI Employees

  • ▹Scoop McGrab: Your relentless investigative agent, autonomously securing leads and discovering high-value content.
  • ▹Columnini: The numbers genius. Precision data analytics, audience intelligence, and performance tracking.
  • ▹RedEye Riley: Our phantom aviator. Silently piloting your nocturnal print-prep, layout, and overnight operational tasks.
  • ▹Pulse: The revenue driver, predicting inventory demands and maximizing ad targeting efficiency.
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Cortex ALL ROADS LEAD TO CORTEX

// Autopagination Engine

Watch Your Pages Build Themselves

Each ad is analyzed, sized, and placed into the optimal page slot automatically. When one page fills, the next begins.

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Placed
82%
Time Saved
0
Errors
3 min
Per Page

// Self-Serve Ad Portal

Place Your Ad in 60 Seconds

Pick your edition. Choose your category. Set your budget. AI generates print-ready creative — no designer needed.

1
Edition
2
Category
3
Audience
4
Budget
5
Creative
Step 01
Pick Your Edition
Choose which newspaper your ad will appear in.
Live Preview Building
— —
Your ad will appear here as you build it
✦ AI Generated —
✓
Ad Submitted — Live in Next Edition
No phone calls. No designers. No waiting.
No design team needed. No phone calls. Just results.

Premium

Meet Your Cortex Nodes

Every agent shares intelligence through CORTEX — your newspaper's neural core.

Cortex Brain
Scoop McGrab

Scoop McGrab

Revenue Operations

  • Content intelligence
  • Revenue recovery
  • Lead gen & prospecting
$0 recovered/mo
Columnini

Columnini

Cost Savings Genie

  • Legacy system integration
  • Automated Excel data cleaning
  • KPI dashboard generation
  • One-click invoice prep
0 hrs saved/week
RedEye Riley

RedEye Autopilot

Automated Ghost Pilot

  • Scheduled midnight execution
  • Automated ROI tracking
  • AR collections dispatch
  • Timed follow-up emails
0.0% accuracy
Pulse

Pulse

Layout & Pagination

  • Autonomous ad placement
  • Instant grid snapping
  • InDesign XML export
0+ pages processed
Cortex Brain

Built by Someone Who's Been Inside a Newspaper

"Newspapers aren't failing because of content. They're failing because of operations."

My mission is to build an AI platform that resets the managing mechanisms and computation timelines. We ensure innovation enters the newspaper industry, replacing mundane tasks and bringing predictability to consolidation.

15+
Years in Newspaper Operations
50+
Newspapers Served
1M+
Pages Processed

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Real-Time Operational Intelligence

See exactly how CORTEX saves you time and money — adjust for your circulation

Monthly Savings

$4,200

Hours Reclaimed

127

Savings Hours Errors

Error Reduction

94.0%

ROI

340%

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Choose Your Tier

From community weeklies to major conglomerates — a digital workforce scaled to your operation.

The Community Desk

Small Weeklies & Hyper-Local Digital

$750 /month

+ $1,200 one-time deployment

  • ✓ Deploy 1 Digital Employee (Scoop McGrab for Audience)
  • ✓ Standard CMS Sync (WordPress/Ghost)
  • ✓ Capped at 4 Automated Newsletters / Week
  • ✓ Business-Hours Newspaper Support
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Your Full Workforce — Waiting

Columnini
Pulse
RedEye Riley

Upgrade to unlock your full digital workforce →

Core Offering

The Regional Newspaper

Mid-Sized Dailies & Full Operational Overhaul

$3,500 /month

+ variable compute

+ $6,500 one-time system integration

  • ✓ Complete Digital Workforce (Columnini, Scoop, Pulse, RedEye Riley)
  • ✓ Real-Time Print & Digital Yield Telemetry
  • ✓ Automated Ad Intake to Press-Ready Pipelines
  • ✓ Priority Press-Time Support
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The Syndicate

Major Publishing Conglomerates

Custom Quote

Starting at $10,000+ /mo

Custom Deployment SLA

  • ✓ Multi-Masthead Network Command Center
  • ✓ Bespoke Persona Development & Private LLM Training
  • ✓ Uncapped Autonomous Processing & Audits
  • ✓ Dedicated On-Call Systems Architect
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Seamless Integration

How Cortex Works

INPUT STREAM
Step 01

Connect

We integrate with your existing billing, ad, and production systems — no changes required on your end.

  • Billing systems
  • Ad management
  • Production tools
  • Existing spreadsheets
INTELLIGENCE CORE
Step 02

Unify

Your data flows into one secure, intelligent hub — each Newspaper fully isolated.

  • Secure Postgres database
  • Per-client isolation
  • Your data stays yours
  • Historical intelligence
OUTPUT ACTIONS
Step 03

Act

AI-powered alerts catch mistakes, flag delinquencies, and surface revenue opportunities automatically.

  • Mistake detection
  • Delinquency alerts
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Superpowered team

No migration. No disruption.

"We only win when you win."

// SYSTEM IDENTITY

Founder Dossier

The human behind the neural network.

Founder – CREA
Founder & Lead
CREA CORTEX
SPEC
LOCATION HQ: Troy, NY
FOCUS Newspaper Operational AI
STATUS ● ACTIVE

// CORE MISSION

"Messy Data into Magnificent Reports."

Built by someone who's been inside a newspaper. CREA connects your disparate systems so they talk to each other — reducing manual processes by automating what you already do.

// INITIATE DEPLOYMENT

Join the Pilot Program

Stop letting operational bottlenecks eat your margins. Hire your digital workforce today and start recovering revenue by tomorrow.

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Agent

System Online · Calibrating
Heist Bulletin
Director of Revenue Operations
Your Revenue Bandit
"I find your next dollar before your competitor does."
🚀 Launch Heist Bulletin

Tactical Summary

🎯
Objective
Maximize ad revenue through automated lead gen and content monetization.
⚡
Specialties
Newsletter automation, prospecting, advertiser recovery.
📈
Impact
Recovers lost revenue and creates new revenue streams your team doesn't have time to chase.
📰
Content Scrapers
Police blotter, real estate transactions with property of the week, obituaries, arts & entertainment calendar.
✉️
Newsletter Automation
AI-powered content for newsletter verticals. Publish in minutes, not hours.
🎯
Lead Gen & Prospecting
Automated lead generation by category with targeted outreach to grow ad revenue.
🤝
First-Timer Welcome
Automated thank you & welcome sequences to first-time advertisers. Build loyalty from day one.
🔄
Lapsed Advertiser Outreach
Automated outreach to win back lapsed advertisers with targeted re-engagement campaigns.
📢
Marketing Minute
Targeted useful content for verticals — roofers, landscapers, home improvement — real value, not sales pitches.
💰
Revenue Leakage Detection
Identifies billing gaps, underpriced ads, and missed upsell opportunities that silently drain your bottom line.
🚨
Delinquent Account Alerts
Automated alerts when accounts go past due. Escalation sequences that recover revenue before it's written off.
Pulse
Ad Intake & Production Intelligence
Every Page, A Symphony
"I orchestrate chaos into press-ready perfection — every page, every time."
🚀 Launch Pulse

Tactical Summary

🎯
Objective
Eliminate manual pagination errors and reduce layout time by over 80%.
⚡
Specialties
Automated ad-placement, InDesign-compatible XML, pre-press QA, dynamic copy-flow.
📈
Impact
Frees your design team to focus on high-impact layouts. Catches every mistake before press.
📐
Automated Ad Placement ↗
Grid-based ad placement with AI that learns your layout preferences. Zero manual positioning.
📄
InDesign XML Export
Generates InDesign-compatible XML for seamless import. No copy-paste, no re-keying.
🖼️
Missing Image Detection
Catches missing or placeholder images before they make it to print.
📝
Overset Text Detection
Identifies text overflow that would be cut off in final print.
🔤
Wrong Font Detection
Flags unauthorized fonts that could cause rendering issues.
🎨
AI Ad Image Generation ↗
Generate press-ready ad creatives from text prompts. Supports display, classified, and legal notice formats.
🏪
Self-Serve Ad Portal ↗
Enable advertisers to place their own ads 24/7 through a branded portal. Less manual intake, more revenue.
📑
Print-Ready PDF Export
Export press-ready PDFs at industry-standard resolution. Direct to pre-press with zero manual formatting.
📦
Multi-Format Ad Placement
Handle display, classified, legal notices, and inserts. One system for every ad type your newspaper runs.
RedEye Riley
VP of Operational Efficiency
Your Automated Ghost Pilot
"I never sleep. Your deadlines are my deadlines."
⚡ Launch RedEye Riley 📡 Ad Pulse Portal

Tactical Summary

🎯
Objective
Ensure zero missed deadlines through intelligent task scheduling and automation.
⚡
Specialties
Scheduled automation, email campaigns, ROI tracking, Google Trends integration.
📈
Impact
Runs the midnight crunch so your team doesn't have to. 99.2% deadline hit rate.
📊
Ad Tracking & Layout
Trainable models with grid-based placement for ad pagination. AI learns your layout preferences.
⏰
Scheduled Automation
Billing, AR collections, subscription renewals, timed emails, follow-up sequences & automated dialer feeds.
📈
Automated ROI Tracking
Story ROI, issue ROI, special section ROI — automated performance tracking across everything.
🔍
Google Trends Integration
Coverage ideas, story ideas & lead gen prospecting — powered by real-time trending data.
📧
Email Campaign Automation
Special sections, past due accounts, subscription renewals — automated outreach sequences.
🏪
Self-Serve Ad Portal ↗
Enable advertisers to place their own ads 24/7. Less manual intake, more revenue.
🎯
Deadline-Aware Prioritization
Intelligently reorders tasks based on deadline urgency. Critical items surface automatically — nothing slips through.
🔀
Workflow Orchestration
Coordinates multi-step processes across departments. Editorial, ad production, and billing stay perfectly in sync.
🌙
Midnight Crunch Management
Takes the stick during late-night production crunch. Monitors, routes, and escalates while your team rests.
🔗
Cross-System Monitoring
Watches ad systems, editorial CMS, billing, and email — all in one unified view. One dashboard, full visibility.
Columnini
Director of Financial Intelligence
Your Cost Savings Genie
"I turn your brittle legacy systems into a symphony of automation."
🪄 Launch Columnini 📊 KPI Dashboard

Tactical Summary

🎯
Objective
Eliminate manual billing errors and reduce staff hours by 85%.
⚡
Specialties
Automated billing, KPI dashboards, legacy system integration, data cleaning.
📈
Impact
Frees your team from 47+ hours/month of repetitive tasks so they can focus on selling.
🧾
Automated Billing ↗
One click, pure magic — Abracadata! Streamline your entire billing process.
🔗
Integrate Systems
Ad tracking & Legacy System Whisperer — make your brittle systems finally talk to each other.
📋
Auto Clean Excel Data
Detect errors in phone numbers, addresses & hours. Output final reports with guardrails & validations.
📊
KPI Dashboard ↗
Revenue per page, profit per issue, discounts vs. rate card, advertiser churn & retention — all at a glance.
🌐
Browser Based Automation ↗
Automate weekly reports and recurring data tasks. Launch the app to activate The Great Columnini.
📊
AR Aging Reports
Automated Accounts Receivable aging reports with per-rep breakdowns. Track overdue accounts and collection status at a glance.
🔍
Mistake Detection & Correction
AI-powered error detection catches billing mistakes, duplicate charges, and pricing discrepancies before they cost you money.