Introduction

One of the biggest limitations of modern AI assistants is memory. Every new conversation starts almost from scratch, making it difficult to work on long-running investigations or complex cases.

For my hackathon project, I wanted to solve exactly this problem.

I built DetectiveAI, an AI-powered crime investigation assistant that uses Cognee Cloud as its persistent memory layer. Instead of forgetting evidence after every session, DetectiveAI stores, organizes, and recalls investigation data whenever it is needed.

The Problem