We have not published a price for Cortex yet, and we will not invent one. Every tool in every weekday issue is priced for a 20-person product org — the plan a seat, SSO or retention minimum really forces you onto, and the annual dollar figure that comes with it — and that number is published free on this page the morning it is written.
Covered in issue #006 · Monday, 21 September 2026 · no sponsorship, no affiliate links
The Adoption Brief · the subscriber layer
Our verdict on Cortex for a 20-person product org
We have not written an Adoption Brief on Cortex yet, and we will not invent one. Every tool in every weekday issue gets one, and the verdict and the data-risk line are published free on this page the morning it is written.
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One of those three words, one sentence of why, the SSO and SOC 2 read, the price a 20-person product org really lands on and a pitch you can paste into #product. See a complete one on five tools, free →
The pitch for Cortex you can paste into #product
The price above is free · subscribers also get the pitch
Paste this into #product
Three lines you can paste into #product without rewriting them: what it would do here, the before/after, and the smallest pilot worth asking for.
It arrives in every issue of the no-card trial — 7 weekday issues, each with the price, the verdict, the risk line and the pitch on all five tools, for an email address and no card. (A card plan, $10/month or $96/year, also unlocks it right here on the page.) Start the trial below Every tool in every weekday issue gets one; Cortex gets its brief the next time we cover it.
A complete Adoption Brief, unredacted
This is the whole of one brief as subscribers receive it: the verdict, the one sentence behind it, the price a 20-person product org really lands on, the SSO, SOC 2 and data-handling line, and the three lines you can paste into #product. It is from issue #027, which is already published in full — nothing here is withheld, and nothing is being given away that you could not already read.
01 · AI code review · free to read
Graphite Agent
Reviews pull requests and answers questions about a diff inside GitHub, replacing Graphite's earlier standalone Diamond reviewer.
Why it matters for PMsCuts the review wait that stalls your sprint: small fixes get a first-pass review in minutes instead of sitting until an engineer frees up.
At under $10k a year it buys back reviewer hours on every sprint, and SOC 2 Type II clears the usual security review for a 20-person org.
Real price for a 20-person product org
The Team plan at $40 per user per month billed annually is where teams land, because Starter caps AI reviews and Chat; at 20 seats that is $9,600 a year. SAML/SSO, ACLs and audit logs are Enterprise-only (custom, pricing on request).
Integration & data risk
SAML/SSO, ACLs and SIEM audit logs require Enterprise; Team has none. SOC 2 Type II, report via the Cursor trust center. Code and PR context are processed in Graphite's cloud with LLM vendors as sub-processors; AI privacy and code-indexing controls are Enterprise-only.
Paste this into #product
Proposing Graphite Agent on our repo: AI review on every pull request, plus stacked PRs and a merge queue in the same tool.
Today small diffs wait hours for a human reviewer. Agent posts a first pass in minutes, so humans review logic, not formatting and null checks.
Ask: two weeks on one service, one eng lead owns the rules config, we compare time-to-first-review before and after.
Read off Graphite Agent's own pricing and trust pages when issue #027 was written, Thursday, 22 October 2026. Prices move — check the vendor's page before you quote one internally.
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A one-word verdict on every tool — adopt, pilot or skip — with the reason in one sentence.
The real price a 20-person product org lands on, not the headline tier on the pricing page.
The integration and data-risk line: which plan SSO needs, the SOC 2 posture, where your roadmap and customer data ends up.
A paste-ready 3-line pitch for #product, so making the case costs you nothing.
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Five tools like Cortex — and the verdict on each.
The five tools are published free every weekday morning. Subscribers also get the Adoption Brief on each one: adopt / pilot / skip, the price a 20-person product org really lands on, the SSO and data-risk line, and a pitch you can paste into #product. Leave your email and the next 7 issues arrive with all five briefs attached — no card, nothing to cancel.
A one-word verdict on every tool — adopt, pilot or skip — with the reason in one sentence.
The real price a 20-person product org lands on, not the headline tier on the pricing page.
The integration and data-risk line: which plan SSO needs, the SOC 2 posture, where your roadmap and customer data ends up.
A paste-ready 3-line pitch for #product, so making the case costs you nothing.
Tomorrow morning, five more — with the call on each.
Every issue is published here in full, free, and stays that way. What a subscription adds is the Adoption Brief on all five tools: adopt, pilot or skip and why, the price a 20-person product org really lands on, the SSO and data-risk line, and a 3-line pitch you can paste into #product.
7 weekday issues free · no card · nothing renews
A one-word verdict on every tool — adopt, pilot or skip — with the reason in one sentence.
The real price a 20-person product org lands on, not the headline tier on the pricing page.
The integration and data-risk line: which plan SSO needs, the SOC 2 posture, where your roadmap and customer data ends up.
A paste-ready 3-line pitch for #product, so making the case costs you nothing.