Data Model
Data Model
Corteksa's schema is dynamic. Unlike a fixed API, your workspace defines its own objects and fields at runtime — so the data model is a meta-model. Learn these four ideas and the whole API makes sense.
Objects
An object is a type of thing you track — Contact, Company, Deal, or
anything you create. Some are system objects; most you define yourself. Each object
has a stable slug (contacts, deals) used everywhere in the API.
Fields
Each object has typed fields. A field also has a slug (e.g. email-p0zx)
— and this is the key you use in a record's data body, not the display name.
There are 17 field types:
text · long_text · number · boolean · date · datetime · select ·
multi_select · rating · currency · email · link · phone · file ·
relation · smart_catalog · serial_number
select / multi_select values are validated against the field's allowed options.
Records
A record is one row of an object. The records API is your main data surface:
The data body is keyed by field slug:
See the Quickstart for a full create example.
Relations
Objects link to each other through relations (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many) — a Deal belongs to a Company, a Contact has many Deals. Relations are bidirectional and addressed by slug like everything else.
Slugs, not IDs
Every reference — object, record, field, relation — is a human-readable slug, never an internal numeric id. Slugs are stable across dev/staging/prod and safe to log or expose. This is a hard rule across the whole platform.
Where to look next
- Try the endpoints → API reference