Frequently Asked Questions

Cortex is an intelligence-first dating platform designed around cognitive and Mindprint compatibility, one active connection at a time and progressive mutual consent.

Cortex uses a monthly Cognitive Assessment to generate a Cognitive Score and cognitive profile.

Unless and until the assessment is professionally psychometrically validated, Cortex should not describe the result as a clinically validated IQ score.

Each monthly assessment has 50 questions: 28 Cognitive Core questions and 22 Cortex Mindprint scenarios. You have 35 minutes.

The Cognitive Core covers six areas:

• Logical Reasoning
• Numerical Reasoning
• Verbal Reasoning
• Pattern Recognition
• Spatial Reasoning
• Working Memory

Mindprint covers flexibility, curiosity, openness, perspective taking, emotional regulation, conflict reasoning and communication precision.

Both scores start at 20; the other 80 points come from your answers, so every score is between 20 and 100.

Once every calendar month.

A new assessment becomes available on the first day of each month.

Yes, up to 4 assessments per calendar month: one included, plus up to 3 retakes. Retakes are currently free.

You choose which result shows on your profile.

If you do not currently have an active Cortex connection, new matching remains unavailable until you complete the current month's assessment.

Your existing connection continues.

Cortex does not automatically terminate an active connection because a new monthly assessment has become due.

Potential matches may see:

• your first name;
• your age;
• your Cognitive Score and its six areas;
• your Mindprint Score and its seven dimensions;
• your compatibility with them;
• your approximate distance;
• the month and year of your current assessment.

No.

Cortex does not display private photos during discovery.

No.

Private gallery photos are captured directly within Cortex using the front-facing camera.

Your Private Gallery holds between 3 and 10 photographs. At least 3 are needed to use Cortex.

There is no fixed limit. Each time you open Discover you choose the search distance, in kilometres or miles.

Only people who are online right now appear.

Yes. Set any distance you like each time you open Discover.

No.

Cortex allows one active connection at a time.

Cortex creates a mutual connection.

Both users become unavailable for another match until the current connection ends.

Only after a mutual match and successful Private Gallery request.

One person requests access, and the other must approve it.

No.

Private Gallery access is always reciprocal.

No.

After viewing each other's photographs, both users independently decide whether they want to communicate.

Chat opens only when both select Yes.

Chat remains closed.

Private Gallery access is immediately revoked for both users.

The connection then moves to the WAIT or UNMATCH decision.

WAIT allows both users to temporarily place the connection on hold.

During WAIT:

• chat is locked;
• private galleries are locked;
• neither person can begin another match.

A maximum of seven days.

Cortex displays the remaining period clearly.

For example:

Connection on Hold — 5 days remaining

Yes.

Either person may request reconsideration.

If both agree before the seven-day period expires, the connection can return to the Private Gallery and chat-decision stage.

If the connection has not progressed, Cortex automatically unmatches both users.

The connection ends.

UNMATCH always overrides WAIT.

No.

Cortex is designed to prevent direct phone-number and email sharing through ordinary text messages.

Users should use the Contact Exchange feature instead.

Contact Exchange unlocks after you have each sent at least 50 messages in chat.

Either person may then send a request, and the other chooses what to share — phone, email, or both. Nothing is revealed without agreement.

Yes. When accepting a request you choose exactly which details to share.

Your contact details remain private.

The Cortex chat may continue normally.

Not in Cortex V1.

The initial version uses text-only chat.

Yes.

You do not need the other person's approval to unmatch.

Yes.

Blocking immediately ends the connection and prevents future Cortex matching with that account.

Yes.

Cortex provides reporting options for safety, identity, harassment, fraud and other concerns.

No.

Different devices and operating systems provide different levels of screenshot protection.

Cortex may use technical safeguards and deterrents where available, but no platform should promise that screen capture is impossible in every situation.

Because Cortex is designed so that people discover those things naturally through conversation.

The profile provides enough information to decide whether an intellectual connection is worth exploring.

The rest should be learned from the person.

Cortex is designed around intentional dating.

The goal is to encourage users to explore one connection meaningfully before beginning another.

Meet the mind first.

Then decide together how far the connection should progress.