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About CortexEleven

Powerful AI belongs inside your walls

We started CortexEleven on a simple conviction: every organisation should be able to put modern AI to work on its own knowledge - without shipping decades of sensitive records to someone else's cloud.

On-premisePrivate by default
Healthcare · Legal · AccountingWho we build for
Zero data egressYour knowledge stays put
Our vision

A world where any organisation can hold a lifetime of knowledge and ask anything of it - with intelligence that lives on their own hardware, and data that never leaves their control.

What we believe

The principles we build on

Private by default
Not an enterprise upsell. Every deployment keeps data and models under your control from day one.
Make it effortless
The hard parts - OCR, indexing, agents, orchestration - are ours to solve. You just ask questions.
Preserve the memory
Institutional knowledge is worth protecting. We keep decades of it searchable, intact and usable.
Earn trust openly
Every answer is grounded and cited; every sensitive action is auditable. Trust comes from transparency.
Who we are

Founded by people who know data, trust and product

Three co-founders with decades of combined expertise in data management, data resilience, AI and product - as well as a reputation for exceptional customer support. The foundations CortexEleven is built on.

Eugene Trautwein
Eugene TrautweinCo-founder
Chief Executive Officer
Background

Eugene has spent decades in enterprise data management and cyber-resilience, building and leading large, highly technical teams, including in senior global leadership and executive roles at Commvault, a global data management, data-protection and cyber-resilience leader. He is also founder of Fortisphere, an advisory practice that helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical transformation - from readiness and benchmarking through workflow automation, implementation and executive operating support.

At CortexEleven

That career sits at the exact intersection CortexEleven is built on: making data both deeply usable and rigorously protected, and AI genuinely practical for the organisations that adopt it. He leads the company’s vision and strategy, founded on a conviction his career proves out, that businesses can adopt modern AI without ever surrendering custody of their data.

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James Lobbes
James LobbesCo-founder
Chief Revenue Officer
Background

James was Managing Partner at Helix Collective, a Sydney-based venture studio and investment fund that brings capital, capability and advice to new ventures - backing and building technology companies across AI and emerging technology over more than a decade. He also co-founded ProviderCheck, a national startup, a rare blend of hands-on technical delivery and company-building. Across founding, investing in and operating technology businesses, he has taken products from first concept to market, raised and deployed capital, and built the teams and partnerships that turn an idea into a company that scales.

At CortexEleven

He leads CortexEleven’s revenue and growth, bringing sovereign, on-premise AI to the healthcare, legal and accounting organisations that need it most, and knows first-hand what it takes to turn technology into a business people adopt and trust.

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Mark Schmidt
Mark SchmidtCo-founder
Head of Product & Customer Experience
Background

Mark brings deep, hands-on experience in data management and cyber-resilience, spanning both the vendor and distribution sides of the industry and across enterprise software, SaaS, and enterprise and consumer hardware. He has built and led large, highly technical engineering teams, including at Commvault, across Asia Pacific and Japan, run operations for global technical organisations, and managed extensive partner ecosystems at scale, behind the systems organisations rely on for their most critical information.

At CortexEleven

As Chief Product Officer he owns what CortexEleven is and how it feels to use, making the OCR-to-answer pipeline, search and a fleet of agents feel effortless, translating deep technical capability into a simple, dependable experience.

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