A TimeArrow product · In development
Silicon Cortex
Think further. Keep the thread.
For researchers, knowledge workers and creators who move between projects and AI tools: Silicon Cortex keeps your context in one place you control, so you never start from scratch.
AI-native personal cognitive management. Silicon Cortex connects what you know, leaves the important decisions to you, and carries your thinking into the work that follows.
The problem
Thinking is continuous. Most tools are not.
Notes sit in one app, decisions in another, and each new task starts from scratch. Silicon Cortex is being built to keep the context together, from what you know to what you do next.
How it works
From what you know to what you do next.
Four steps, one continuous thread. Pick an example to see it applied.
Turn my reading into a clear point of view.Pick up a project after a week away.Turn a loose idea into a first chapter.
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Understand
Connect the context.
Reading notes, sources and open questions, gathered around one goal.Meeting notes, the brief and open actions, back in one view.Fragments, references and early notes, kept beside the idea.
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Judge
Decided by you
You choose the direction.
Map the subject broadly, or develop one argument in depth.Finish one milestone first, or move several threads in parallel.Open with a personal scene, or with a question for the reader.
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Act
Move the work.
A plan that pairs each claim with its source and tests the strongest objection.Owners, next steps and a point to review, drafted for your approval.A first draft built from your own notes and observations.
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Build
Keep a starting point.
The argument, its evidence and its open questions, ready for next time.Decisions and their reasons, kept for whoever picks the project up.Each revision builds on the last, with the original idea still in view.
Illustrative example. Silicon Cortex is in development and not yet publicly available.
Your data
A space that stays yours.
Your thinking is personal. Silicon Cortex is designed around three commitments.
Privacy protection
What you bring to Silicon Cortex is private by default. Protecting it is a starting requirement of the design.
Data sovereignty
Your knowledge and your work belong to you, and you stay in control of them.
You decide what to share
Nothing is shared without your say. What leaves your space, and with whom, is always your decision.
Design principles for a product in development.
Status
In development.
We are building the core loop first: understanding, judgement, action and continuity, working together end to end.
- NowBuilding the core loop.
- NextA working demo.
- ThenLearning from early users.
There is no public demo yet.
Company
TimeArrow
TimeArrow is the company behind Silicon Cortex. We build tools that help people carry their thinking into action, and keep what they build their own.
Baoning Si
Founder & CEO
Product direction, core architecture and company strategy.
Yuheng Si
Co-founder & COO
Operations, product delivery and the Silicon Cortex experience.
Shuxuan Chen (Kimi)
Non-executive director
Fundraising, investor relations, UK affairs and governance.