Every AI team eventually hits this question
Your agents need persistent memory. That's settled. The question engineering leaders are now asking is: do we build the memory infrastructure ourselves, or buy a managed solution?
This is not a simple question. The answer changes dramatically based on your team size, compliance posture, and time-to-market pressure. This post gives you the honest framework to make that call — not the answer designed to sell you something.
(Full disclosure: we build Trace Continuity. We'll tell you when building makes more sense.)
The problem: AI memory without governance is a liability
