For industrial sites on unreliable grids.
Run a reliable factory on an unreliable grid.
Cortex coordinates grid, diesel, solar, and battery as one local control system, so your line keeps moving when the grid does not. Less diesel. Earlier warning when equipment drifts.
Unreliable power does not just raise costs. It hits production.
Most sites already have the assets: grid, diesel, solar, battery. What they do not have is coordination across the whole site. Each asset follows its own logic. The result is longer generator runtime, messy transitions, hidden performance drift, and production loss that shows up directly in revenue.
Lost production, not just lost power
When the line slows or stops, the real cost is missed output. For many sites, that is the sharpest pain.
Performance drift hides in plain sight
Not every issue looks like a breakdown. Motors, cooling, and backup systems often degrade gradually before anyone acts.
Diesel becomes the default
When nothing coordinates the stack, generators run longer than needed and margins disappear.
Reactive fixes keep you behind
Most facilities only intervene once damage is visible in production, maintenance, or fuel costs. That is too late.
Control without rip-and-replace
We start from one mains sensor and lightweight controller integration, so you get visibility and coordinated control without a full retrofit.
What changes when your assets coordinate.
Production keeps running
Seamless switching between grid, diesel, solar, and battery. Critical processes stay online and your line keeps moving through load shedding and weak-grid events.
Less diesel, more margin
Your generator runs only when it needs to. Cortex coordinates grid, solar, and battery to minimise diesel runtime, so fuel spend drops and margins recover.
Prepared before it hits
Cortex reads grid patterns and acts ahead of time: pre-cooling, pre-charging, shifting loads before disruption arrives.
Measure once. Coordinate everything.
From a single sensor on your mains, Cortex reads the site, coordinates switching locally, and keeps making decisions even when internet or grid conditions fail.
Infer
One edge controller per zone separates the aggregate signal into generation, storage, cooling, backup power, and base load without sub-meter rewiring.
Orchestrate
Cortex coordinates grid, diesel, solar, and battery as one system, with millisecond local response. Batteries pre-charge before outages. Generators run only when required. Loads shift to match available supply.
Protect output
Cortex prepares the site before disruption hits, helping critical processes stay online and reducing unnecessary diesel runtime.
Improve over time
The same device signatures that drive control surface diagnosis hints around drift and underperformance, giving teams earlier visibility into maintenance issues. OTA updates keep improving the system after deployment.
See what Cortex would do at your site.
We model your load profile, show where coordination breaks down today, and identify where a first pilot can protect output and reduce diesel dependence.
Where Underscore sits
Industrial-grade hardware. Faster, more adaptive control.
Underscore sits between two unsatisfying choices. On one side are heavy incumbents: trusted, but slow to adapt and not built around unreliable-grid realities. On the other side are lower-cost alternatives that compete on price, but not always on trust, certification, or long-term operational confidence.
Cortex pairs edge-first software with German-engineered hardware, giving sites a control system that is credible enough for serious industrial deployment and adaptive enough to keep improving once it is in.
Built for unstable-grid realities
Designed around the realities of weak grids, load shedding, and unplanned outages, not ideal-grid assumptions.
Local autonomy, not cloud-led control
Live operations run at the edge with millisecond response. No cloud round-trip stands between you and a switching decision.
German-engineered hardware
PLC standard EN 61131-2, UL certified, EMC tested to IEC 61000-6-2 and -6-4. RED DA today, CRA on the horizon.
Software that improves fast
OTA updates and learning device signatures mean the system gets sharper after deployment, without enterprise drag.
Built for sites where uptime is a business constraint.
Most target sites already run an accidental microgrid. The challenge is not whether the assets exist. It is whether they act like one system.
When the grid schedule and reality do not match, output suffers.
Ovens need preheating. Diesel costs 3-5x grid electricity. Production shifts to grid windows when available. When the grid fails, controllers continue autonomously on diesel, queuing non-urgent work for later.
Explore the Platform→Cold rooms consume 40% of energy costs. Running them on diesel destroys margins.
Pre-cool aggressively when grid power is available, building thermal buffer. During outages, diesel backup is managed based on product value and temperature sensitivity.
Explore the Platform→When dry seasons strain capacity, load shedding extends for weeks.
Solar is installed but uncoordinated with backup generation. Flexible loads shift to solar hours. Diesel runtime is minimised during shedding windows. When grid stabilises, the system adapts automatically.
Talk to Our Team→Vaccine storage, surgical suites, ICU: power failure means lives lost.
Seamless switching keeps life support and refrigeration running. Cortex prioritises critical loads and minimises diesel waste during prolonged outages.
Talk to Our Team→See how it works at your site.
Walk through the platform and see what Cortex would do with your load profile.
Proof points
Numbers your board will ask for.
Every deployment is measured against baseline diesel runtime, production continuity, and transition performance, so finance and operations see the same outcome.
Controllers coordinate grid, solar, and gensets so the generator runs only when load actually needs it.
Edge logic keeps production online through load shedding, with no wait for the cloud or a human decision.
Fuel savings and avoided spoilage cover the hardware in under a year for most multi-site operators.
Modelled from Sub-Saharan and South Asian manufacturing benchmarks (IFC and customer data). Live deployment results will be reported as pilots conclude.
If unstable power is costing you output, start with one site.
You do not need a full retrofit to prove the case. Start with a pilot, measure the operating impact, and expand from there.
For factory owners
Protect production, reduce diesel overuse, and gain earlier visibility into performance issues. Begin with a single site, a clear baseline, and a hybrid hardware-plus-software model that fits operating budgets.
Talk to Our TeamFor investors and partners
Back the control layer for industrial energy systems in markets where reliability is a business-critical constraint.
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