The Decision Lives in a Recorded Call. The Spec Is a PDF. Your AI Can't Read Either.

The most expensive decision on your project might be sitting in a call recording nobody will ever open.

Here's the moment I keep seeing. A developer asks their AI assistant why the checkout flow caps retries at three. The assistant guesses. It sounds plausible. It's wrong.

The real answer was settled six weeks ago, on a recorded call, at minute 34. The spec that backs it up is a PDF export from design. The proof of the original bug is a screenshot in a Slack thread.

Three artifacts. Zero of them text. Zero of them visible to the assistant.

Your project's memory is not all text