I build AI-powered applications, audio instruments, and data systems. 25+ years of engineering, now focused on what AI makes possible.
Live now
An AI-curated digest that reads dozens of paywall-free outlets and gives you one synthesized summary per real-world event — not ten near-duplicate headlines. Circulating claims get checked by a transparent Verification Desk, and ongoing conflicts get their own live, map-driven situation rooms, with full-text search over every event ever published. Since October 2026 the front page is Top stories, and every story, section and situation room can be shared with its own preview card. The markets side of the app has since moved out to its own domain as Corticorp Finance.
Learn more → Open live →Now its own product
The markets work that grew up inside News now stands on its own domain. Forty-four simulated funds run side by side on the same market, each with its own stated discipline, each publishing every decision along with the reasoning and the exact inputs behind it. Around them: a Market Pulse that has become a daily markets newspaper with seven editions and four desk tools, a share card for every edition carrying a chart that fits what it says, 1,239 persisted data series, an earnings and macro calendar, and an AI Board that reviews the roster in public. Simulated, and not investment advice.
Learn more → Open live →
Newest project, in build

An open file format meant to replace PDF in the common case: one .opd file carries a clean, reflowable source in a strict subset of HTML, its fonts, and optionally a frozen copy of the exact pages, bound to the source by hash. Around it, a viewer, an editor and a PDF importer that are each a single HTML file, run offline from any folder, and never phone home. Write a document, add form fields, send it, have it filled and signed, and collect the returned copies. Built in four days in October 2026, and still an experiment.
Learn more → Open the app →Also live
Around 53,000 public webcams from traffic authorities, observatories and weather networks on five continents, quilted onto one satellite map as live thumbnails: volcanoes, harbours, city streets, ocean buoys and an Antarctic research station. Zoom in and a city fills with windows; watch one full screen, send several to a multicam wall, follow the cameras along a driving route, or share a view and the link carries a live preview. Frames refresh on their own schedules, so the map drifts through the day with the world.
Learn more → Open live →Audio software
A growing line of VST3 instruments and effects, built in C++ with JUCE.
Real-time audio plugins with hand-crafted interfaces and zero-allocation engines. Three have their own pages so far. Behind them are five more in build, including CortKeys, CortSampler and CortDrum, which split the all-in-one CortSynth into three single-purpose instruments for anyone who wanted one of the three and not all of them.
Recent work
An AI-powered rental aggregator that scrapes listings from Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com, and more. Gemini Vision scores photo quality and identifies flooring, natural light, and kitchen style. Interactive map + filterable dashboard with work-commute scoring.
Learn more →
A self-service investigation tool for verifying online identities. Upload photos, phone numbers, social handles, and messages about a suspected scammer and get a report highlighting red flags. Includes reverse image search, carrier lookup, and a geo-verification beacon.
Learn more →A playlist builder for YouTube Music. Describe a vibe in plain English and it compiles to selection rules you can actually edit — era, length, no live versions, never the same artist twice. Or seed it with one song and weight what “similar” means: same band, same era, same country, similar mood. Preview the whole queue in the browser for nothing, then save it as a real playlist your car can play.
Learn more → Try it →Coming soon
Real-time transcription of Tagalog and Taglish speech, with an English translation a beat behind. The software is built and, in theory, ready to use; it goes live here once it has been tried on real speech.
Details →Background
I'm Cort — a software engineer with 25+ years building systems for Fortune 500 companies and startups across finance, energy, healthcare, and marketing. These days I'm focused on what happens when you put AI at the center of an application, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Building applications where Claude, Gemini, and vision models do real work — generating content, scoring data, analyzing images, and driving decisions that would take a human team days.
Scraping, cleaning, enriching, and visualizing data from messy real-world sources. Turning unstructured listings, photos, and text into searchable, scored, actionable dashboards.
Real-time audio synthesis in C++ with JUCE. Oscillator design, filter modeling, physical-string simulation, zero-allocation audio threads, and shipping a full VST3 plugin.
End-to-end: Python backends, interactive web dashboards, REST APIs, cloud deployment, and desktop applications. Whatever the project needs to ship.
Tech I work with
Get in touch
Interested in working together, or have a question about one of my projects?