Monday's meeting, Wednesday's session: Claude asks \"what is this project about?\"
If you use Claude Code, you know the pattern. You left a half-finished plan, discussed architecture, revised review materials three times - all still there, except the context. Claude starts every session as a blank slate. It's smart, but it doesn't remember.
I manage 25 projects (training programs, hospital collaborations, talent reviews, plus a few technical ones). For a non-developer like me, the most expensive thing was never compute - it was re-explaining context every single time.
I tried everything: stuffing project lists into global config, pasting background before each session, building document trees. None of it worked - either too much maintenance, or Claude simply never read it.
Then I realized the problem: Claude isn't forgetful, I never gave it a memory system. It auto-loads CLAUDE.md from the project directory every session - a native memory interface I was completely ignoring.
