> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cortex.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Cortex beta program and release phases

At Cortex, we're constantly building new features to improve operational maturity and reduce developer friction through engineering operations. Our beta program allows you to get early access to upcoming features, help shape their development, and provide valuable feedback before they reach general availability.

## Release phases

Cortex uses a phased approach to release new features, allowing us to gather feedback and iterate based on real-world usage. Understanding these phases helps you know what to expect when trying out new features.

| Release phase | Who can access? | Purpose | Support |
| - | - | - | - |
| Private Beta | Select group of customers by invitation only | Test real-world use cases and gather targeted feedback from pilot customers who can handle pre-release features | Direct support from the Cortex product team |
| Public Beta | All customers have it turned on by default, but certain features may only be available to cloud customers | Offer new features more broadly while still refining details and fixing bugs based on real-world usage at scale | Standard Cortex support channels |
| Research Preview | Depending on the feature, a select group of customers by invitation or all cloud customers | Quickly ship and iterate on AI features | Standard Cortex support channels |
| General Availability (GA) | All customers by default | Full-fledged, stable release ready for production use | Standard Cortex support channels |

## Current beta features

We're currently running beta programs for several exciting features:

| Feature | Status | Get Access |
| - | - | - |
| [AI Impact Dashboard](/resources/beta#ai-impact-dashboard-for-github-copilot-public-beta) | Public Beta | Default |
| [OpEx Review](/resources/beta#opex-review-public-beta) | Public Beta | Default |
| [Ownership Recommendations](/resources/beta#ownership-recommendations-private-beta) | Private Beta | Default |
| [Cortex AI Chat](/resources/beta#cortex-ai-chat-research-preview) | Research Preview | Default |

### AI Impact Dashboard for GitHub Copilot (Public Beta)

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  This feature is available for Cortex cloud.
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Measure adoption and impact of AI coding tools, starting with GitHub Copilot, across your engineering teams. [Learn more](/improve/eng-intelligence/dashboards/ai-impact)

**Key features:**

* Team-level AI adoption correlated with delivery and reliability
* Impact of recent AI usage on engineering performance
* Detailed user-level AI adoption trends over time

### OpEx Review (Public Beta)

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  This feature is available for Cortex cloud.
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OpEx Review is an AI-powered operational excellence review based on the DRIVE framework that turns your Eng Intelligence data into a recurring, narrated report. On a schedule you set, Cortex summarizes what changed since the last cycle and highlights the trends worth your attention, so leaders can spend less time assembling metrics and more time acting on them. [Learn more](/improve/opex-review)

**Key features**:

* **Scheduled, narrated reports** - Cortex generates a report on the cadence you choose and writes a plain-language overview of each cycle.
* **Metrics organized by operational pillars** - Related metrics are grouped into pillars, each with an AI insight explaining what the movement means.
* **AI insights on every metric** - Each metric includes its current value, the change from the prior period, its trend over time, and AI-generated insights that explain what's driving the movement and how it connects to other metrics.
* **Cortex AI chat** (Research Preview) - Open a chat with Cortex AI about any metric; ask follow-up questions, dig into why a metric moved, and pull in related data without leaving the report. [Learn more](/cortex-ai-chat)

### Cortex AI Chat (Research Preview)

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  This feature is available for Cortex cloud.
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Cortex's AI-powered chat assistant answers questions about your engineering data in plain language and grounded in your real Cortex data. Open it beside whatever page you're on with ⌘J, or give it a full page of its own for longer sessions. [Learn more](/cortex-ai-chat)

**Key features**:

* **Ask from anywhere** - A side panel that opens over your current page, plus a dedicated page with conversation history.
* **Grounded in the page you're on** - Ask "who owns this?" on an entity or Scorecard page without naming it.
* **Reaches your workspace** - Catalog, Scorecards, Initiatives, Workflows, Engineering Intelligence metrics, the Cortex documentation, and more.

### Ownership Recommendations (Private Beta)

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  This feature is available for Cortex cloud.
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Cortex predicts owners with a machine learning model that matches services and service-like entities in your catalog with teams in your catalog. It draws on the structure of your entire catalog, including code contribution activity, the owners of related services, service names and descriptions, domain structure, service metadata, and connections to other tools, such as on-call and issue tracking tools. [Learn more](/ingesting-data-into-cortex/entities-overview/entities/ownership/assigning-owners-to-entities#assigning-ownership-via-cortex-recommendations)

**Key features:**

* View all ownership recommendations in a single page
* Accept or reject recommendations

## Join our beta program

### Why join?

* **Early Access.** Be among the first to try new features before they're available to everyone.
* **Shape the Product.** Your feedback directly influences feature development and prioritization.
* **Exclusive Perks.** Beta participants may receive special recognition, early access to future features, or other benefits.
* **Direct Collaboration.** Work closely with our product team to ensure private beta features meet your needs.

### How to join

1. Review the current beta features listed above to see what interests you.
2. Try out any public beta features already enabled and provide any feedback through the link on the feature's public beta banner.
3. Click **Request Access** on any private beta feature you'd like to try.
4. Fill out the brief form to tell us about your use case.
5. We'll review your request and follow up within 3-5 business days.

Not all requests can be accommodated for private beta features due to capacity constraints, but we'll do our best to include as many participants as possible.

### What we ask of beta testers

* **Provide Feedback.** Share your experiences, both positive and negative, through our feedback channels.
* **Report Bugs.** Help us identify issues by reporting them promptly with detailed information.
* **Be Patient.** Beta features may have rough edges or change during the testing period.


## Related topics

- [Available metrics in Data Explorer](/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer/available-metrics-in-data-explorer.md)
- [Seasonal readiness Scorecard](/guides/production-readiness/seasonal-readiness-scorecard.md)
- [Bitbucket](/ingesting-data-into-cortex/integrations/bitbucket.md)