We left filing cabinets behind, only to recreate the same chaos in our digital world.

Stop Organizing. Start Remembering.

Cortive is your private digital cortex. It turns the chaos of scattered notes, links, and files into a unified, intelligent library you can access instantly—from anywhere on your computer.

Secure Your Spot in The Founder's Circle

Join the waitlist for a one-time $50 lifetime deal, exclusively for our first 100 members.

Your Knowledge is Trapped.

Your best ideas are scattered. They're held hostage by two outdated and non private philosophies: the "Walled Garden" and the "Cloud-First AI."

The "Walled Garden" Apps (Notion, etc.)

Powerful destinations for creating notes, but they are terrible at unifying the knowledge that lives outside their walls. They are another silo, not a solution to the chaos.

The "Cloud-First" AIs (Claude, etc.)

Powerful automation tools, but they require you to send your private data to their servers. This is a non-starter for sensitive, personal knowledge.

Cortive's approach is different. We are not another destination. We are a private, local-first "Memory Engine" that sits on your computer and unifies the context from all your other tools.

See The "Aha!" Moment.

Watch the 60-second demo to see how Cortive unifies web captures, local notes, and clipboard content into one instantly searchable library.

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The Founder's Edition: An Unfair Advantage.

This is a one-time offer, exclusively for the first 100 people who believe in the mission. Secure a lifetime license to Cortive Pro for a single payment.

What's Included in the Lifetime Deal

You get every feature of the "Indie Cortive" paid MVP, plus all future Pro updates, forever.

  • Permanent, Unlimited Storage: All captures are stored locally on your machine, forever.
  • Flawless Web Capture: A rock-solid browser extension to save articles and text selections.
  • Whole-System Capture: Grab ideas from anywhere with global hotkeys for Clipboard and Screenshot (with OCR) capture.
  • "Watched Folders" for Local Notes: Automatically index your existing notes from folders like your Obsidian vault.
  • Lightning-Fast Keyword Search: Search the full text of everything you've ever saved in under 200ms.

Platform: Windows 10/11

$50 one-time payment

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why a lifetime deal?

I'm a solo founder, and my first priority is to build a community of committed users who believe in the vision. The Founder's Circle isn't just a group of customers; you are my most valued advisors. This lifetime offer is designed to reward that early belief and build a strong foundation for the future.

What happens after the 100 spots are filled?

Once the 100 Founder's Edition licenses are sold, they are gone forever. Cortive will then move to a standard monthly/annual subscription model for all new users to ensure a sustainable business that can be supported and improved for years to come.

Why isn't Cortive open-source?

This is a strategic decision based on focus and sustainability. As a solo founder, my mission is to build a polished and stable product as quickly as possible. Open-sourcing a project correctly requires a massive overhead in community management that would slow down core development. To ensure Cortive has a long-term future with dedicated support, it needs a viable business model from day one. Trust is built on verifiable user control: your data never leaves your machine and is stored in a standard SQLite file you can see and access at any time.

When is the Mac version coming?

The "Founder's Edition" launch is for Windows. A native macOS version is our highest priority post-launch. Revenue from the Founder's Circle will be directly reinvested into accelerating the development of the Mac version.