Three months ago, I started building something I had no business building. I run growth at a small agency. I am not a career engineer. Today, it is live and open source, and this is why we built it and how.
The wall
We run AI agents across our client work, and everyone starts every session with amnesia. We re-explained the same context every morning, and nothing the agents learned ever stuck. The "memory" tools we tried made it worse in a quieter way: they were black boxes.
The model wrote its own notes, rewrote them silently, and we could never see where a fact came from or whether it was still true. There is even research now showing that these compounds: feed an agent a noisy history and its behavior degrades, swap in clean records and it recovers. The failure stays invisible until production is already paying for it.
The bet
