CORTEX Pulse.

The ecosystem heartbeat — a real-time operational dashboard that tells you, in a single glance, whether your partnerships are healthy, your engagement is trending up or down, and where to spend the next hour. Designed for the weekly operating rhythm of a partnership team.

What Pulse shows

Pulse is the first screen of CORTEX. It consolidates five live metric groups, each with its own trend delta against the previous period:

• Engagement Score — a rolling 0-100 measure of how actively your team is using the platform: logins, messages sent, matches reviewed, deals touched.
• Active Partnerships — the count of bilateral connections in accepted status, with a trend arrow against last week.
• Match Funnel — matches surfaced / reviewed / accepted / mutual / converted to deals. Each conversion rate is shown with the ecosystem benchmark.
• Pipeline Value — total expected revenue of all open deals, broken down by stage.
• Risk Indicators — any partnerships flagged by the Early Warning sub-engine.

How it updates

Pulse uses a hybrid refresh model so it always feels live without hammering the database:

The Engagement Score formula

Engagement is the most-asked-about number on the dashboard, so the computation is fully public:

engagement = (
    login_days_last_30 × 2       # up to 60 points
  + messages_sent_last_30 × 0.5  # up to 25 for an active team
  + matches_reviewed_last_30 × 1 # up to 10
  + deals_touched_last_30 × 1    # up to 5
)

Capped at 100. A team that logs in daily, sends a handful of messages, reviews matches, and moves one deal per week consistently sits around 85. Anything below 40 is a flag — the app surfaces a "low activity" banner for the admin.

Who should watch this

• Partnership leads — the weekly stand-up dashboard. Open Monday morning; decide where to invest this week.
• Compliance officers — risk indicators bubble up here before they become SHIELD alerts.
• Executives — the single-pane view of partnership performance without needing a BI tool.

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