Fifteen years of databases, end to end
Fifteen years of database platforms at AWS, Oracle, Tessell, OpenSCG, and EnterpriseDB — and how they became CortexBolt, the autonomous operations platform.
Dinesh4 min read
Introducing CortexBolt
Your operations run themselves.
CortexBolt watches your data, decides with AI, and runs the work — across databases, APIs, and services. You approve what matters.
Connects PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB SQL Server ClickHouse Redis Oracle DuckDB
Streams Kafka PostgreSQL CDC MySQL CDC
01 The loop
Detect. Reason. Fix.
Repeat forever.
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01 The problem
Your best engineers fight the same fire twice.
Every incident pulls a senior engineer away from planned work. The fix is rarely documented — it stays with the person who found it. So the next outage takes just as long to resolve, and the expertise leaves when they do.
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02 The insight
Write the playbook once. It runs itself.
Each fix becomes a visual workflow the whole team can read. A cron schedules it. A webhook fires it. Or CDC catches the change inside the database and starts the flow the instant data moves. AI reads the live state and decides every next step — at machine speed, around the clock.
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03 The result
Operations run themselves. You keep control.
When something breaks, the response is already running. AI triages, decides, and executes — before a human would have read the page. Irreversible steps hold at an approval gate until you sign off. Every action audited. Every run observable. Nobody fights the same fire twice.
02 How it works
Draw the workflow.
It runs itself.
Triggers, queries, AI prompts, MCP tools, approval gates — connected on one canvas. Every edge is configurable. Every run is audited.
CortexBoltStudio › order-pipeline
Live
- 02:13 checkout p99 hits 2.8s — webhook fires
- 02:13 AI + postgres-mcp: missing index on orders(user_id)
- 02:14 approval lands on the on-call phone
- 02:19 approved — CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
- 02:20 p99 back to 90ms · no war room, full audit trail
03 Change streams
One commit.
Replicate and react.
Change-data-capture reads PostgreSQL's logical replication stream and MySQL's binlog — and does two things with every insert, update, and delete: replicates it to the stores that need it, and fires whole workflows that act on it. Not just replication. Reflexes.
- ≤1s source → target
- batched apply · one round-trip per batch
- at-least-once · checkpointed at commit
- hold ⏸ and release ▶ — the human brake
- 27
- production-ready templates
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- composable job kinds
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- AI providers — Claude, GPT, Ollama
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- databases in the loop
04 Flow debug
Debug it
like code.
Click a node to set a breakpoint and run. The workflow pauses live — inspect every variable the step received, then continue, step, or abort. Fan-outs pause per element, so you can watch one row at a time.
CortexBoltStudio › order-pipeline · debug run #214
Paused
- 01 Detect WEBHOOK done · 12ms
- 02 Reason AI done · 1.4s
- 03 Approve GATE approved · dinesh
- 04 Execute DB paused
- 05 Notify SINK waiting
05 Notifications
Stay informed.
Not involved.
A first-class mobile app, purpose-built for your team — on the phone and on the wrist. Alerts, AI insights, and approval requests from your databases, APIs, and streams land there the moment they happen, and on every paging channel you already use: email, Slack, PagerDuty, or any webhook. No dashboards to watch.
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06 Access control
Locked down.
Written down.
An autonomous platform earns trust two ways: by what it refuses to do without permission, and by what it writes down when it acts.
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01 Scoped
Six roles. Real namespaces.
Users and groups carry six built-in roles — admin, IAM admin, namespace owner, editor, runner, viewer — scoped per namespace. Delegation is explicit: you can only grant a role your own grant lets you pass on.
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02 Sealed
Secrets never leave.
Connector credentials are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, write-only in the UI, and never returned by the API. Passwords hash with Argon2id, and the bootstrap password must be rotated on first login.
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03 Accounted
Every action lands in the log.
Runs, approvals, grants, deletes, disables — human or AI, every consequential action writes an audit event with who, what, and when. Authorization is enforced at dispatch, where the work actually happens.
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