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What is alternate intelligence?
Alternate intelligence is a living, queryable model of how a specific person thinks: their values, voice, judgment patterns, and tensions, available when they cannot be present themselves.
Why the phrase exists
An AI assistant usually means a general model. Alternate intelligence means a second you: the same judgment patterns, available through software.
Cortex is personal intelligence infrastructure at makecortex.com: a psychology-first digital twin that captures how a person decides, sounds, and reasons, then answers as them in chat, REST, MCP, and voice.
How it differs from RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation finds passages. Alternate intelligence answers with how you would weigh those facts given your priors.
That is why Cortex onboarding starts with psychology interviews, not only file upload.
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