Persistent memory for Claude
Give Claude lasting memory of your business.
Claude's built-in memory is limited and out of your hands. Give it a memory file instead: a structured record of your business that Claude reads every chat, that you control, and that works in ChatGPT and Gemini too. Answer six questions and we build yours, free.
No card to start. Real markdown, yours to download and keep.
What Claude remembers about your business
# Paws on Wheels
## Company Snapshot
Mobile dog grooming, serving greater Austin.
## Core Systems
Square · booking + payments
Google Calendar · the daily route
## Team — who owns what
Maya — owner, grooming, the books
## How to help
Know this every chat. Ask before assuming.
The basics
Does Claude have memory?
Partly. Claude has a built-in memory feature that can carry over some preferences and recent context, and it varies by plan. What it does not do is hold a structured, durable record of how your business runs. For that you give Claude a memory file: a plain markdown document about your company that it reads at the start of every conversation, so it starts oriented instead of guessing.
Why it matters
Relying on built-in memory
Each chat largely starts fresh. You re-explain what the business does, who is on the team, and which tools you use, and you cannot see or edit what Claude actually kept.
With a memory file
Claude opens every conversation already knowing your business. The context is a file you own, so you can read it, edit it, and trust exactly what it holds.
Claude's memory feature vs a memory file
Claude and ChatGPT both have a memory feature, and both are aimed at light personalization rather than a full picture of your business. Built-in memory is automatic, limited, and mostly out of your hands. A memory file is the opposite: you decide what goes in it, you can read and edit every line, and it lives outside the model so it never quietly drifts. For a business, control and accuracy matter more than convenience, which is why a file you own beats memory you cannot see.
What Claude remembers about your business
The memory file is for orientation, not a full manual. Keep it short and high-signal, and let a linked knowledge base carry the depth. This is the structure we generate:
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Company Snapshot | What the business is, what it sells, and who buys. The one-line orientation. |
| Core Systems | The tools you run on and what each is for, so Claude knows your stack. |
| Team — who owns what | The people and their lanes, so Claude knows who decides what. |
| For Deeper Context | A pointer to the knowledge base, where the depth lives. |
| How to help | How Claude should behave: know this every chat, ask before assuming. |
How we generate yours
You answer six short questions about your business. One pass turns those answers into a structured memory file in the shape above, organized the way Anthropic recommends for giving AI context. It is free, it takes about two minutes, and you get a real file to download, edit, and load into Claude.
Persistent, portable, and yours
Because the memory lives in a file rather than inside the model, it does not reset when a feature changes or a chat ends. It is the same context every session, it survives model updates, and it moves with you. Paste it into ChatGPT or Gemini and they get the same memory of your business. You own it, so it lasts as long as you want it to.
How it works
From six questions to lasting memory Claude reads every chat.
Answer six questions
Tell us what the business does, who is on the team, and the tools you run on. Paste your site and we read the public page to fill in what we can. About two minutes, no signup to start.
Business intake
What does your business do?
Who is on the team?
Paste your website URL
We build your memory file
One pass turns your answers into a structured record of your business: a company snapshot, the systems you run on, who owns what, and how the AI should help.
Load it into Claude
Paste it into a Claude Project or drop it in a Claude Code project root, and Claude reads it at the start of every conversation. The same file works in ChatGPT and Gemini.
Connect your AI
Built once, read every chat. Memory you actually control.
What you get
Memory, and everything that runs on it
The memory file is the record Claude reads every chat. Around it: a free AI Action Plan, a dozen knowledge-base documents, agents that run on a routine, skills for one-off jobs, and hundreds of prompts, all yours to edit and keep.
Start free: your AI Action Plan
free, no card neededAI Action Plan
FreeHow we recommend you put AI to work in your business. Quick wins first, prioritized and tied to the tools you already run. 1,500+ words. This stands on its own. Read it and decide from there. It is not part of the knowledge base below.
deliverables/ai-action-plan.md
The brain we generate
a dozen documents, generated for youThe knowledge base your AI reads to actually know the business.
CLAUDE.md
The most important file. What any AI loads first: the source of truth for what it is working on.
Company Overview
What the business is and how it makes money.
01-company-overview.md
Team Structure
Who owns what, and who decides what.
02-team-structure.md
Tech Stack
The systems you run on and where they break.
03-tech-stack.md
Products & Services
What you sell, how it is priced and delivered.
04-products-and-services.md
Customers & ICP
Who buys, and who is not a fit.
05-customers-and-icp.md
Goals
What you are trying to do, and what is in the way.
06-goals.md
Brand & Voice
How your business sounds when it writes.
07-brand.md
Knowledge-base index
A map of every file, so your AI knows where to look.
knowledge-base/00-index.md
Core Processes (×3)
Your recurring workflows, each mapped out step by step like an SOP.
processes/
Agents that work like a teammate
run on a routineMulti-step agents your AI runs on a cadence: a weekly review, a quarterly competitor scan, ongoing discovery. Each reads your brain and works across several steps. New useful things to run, not new bytes to store. A few of them:
Weekly Review
Three things to focus on. Run it each week.
Competitor Scan
What to learn from peers. Run it each quarter.
AI Opportunity Scan
Your next concrete AI move. Run it monthly.
Business Discovery
Fill the gaps in your brain, conversationally.
Delegation Audit
Find what to offload, automate, or stop.
Skills for one-off jobs
run on demandSingle-task skills your AI runs the moment you need them, in your voice and grounded in the brain. A few of them:
Draft an SOP
Turn a recurring process into a written SOP.
Customer Email
Draft a customer email in your voice.
Meeting Prep
Walk into any meeting briefed from the brain.
Hiring Brief
Turn a gap into a role and interview plan.
Drop-in prompts
hundreds, paste and goThe memory file is what Claude remembers, and the agents and skills are what it does with it.
Pricing
Start free. Own the whole brain for one payment.
Starter
No card. No catch.
- Your CLAUDE.md: the orientation file your AI loads first
- AI Action Plan: where AI pays off first, prioritized
- Preview docs: your Company Overview and Customers profile
- Six questions, ready in two minutes
- Yours to keep, free forever
A plan tells you what to do. A brain gets it done.
Get my free CLAUDE.mdYour business's AI brain
One payment. No subscription, ever.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Knowledge base: 8 structured docs covering your company, team, tools, products, customers, goals, and voice
- One paste: connect your own Claude or ChatGPT
- Prompts: meeting notes, newsletter, decision memo
- Skills: draft an SOP, prep a meeting, customer email
- Agents: weekly review, competitor scan, ongoing discovery
Less than an hour of a consultant's rate, for a brain your AI uses on every job after.
Questions
Claude memory, answered.
Does Claude have memory?
Partly. Claude has a built-in memory feature that can carry over some preferences and recent context, and it varies by plan. What it does not do is hold a structured, durable record of how your business actually runs. For that you give Claude a memory file: a plain markdown document about your company that it reads every time, so it starts oriented instead of guessing.
Does Claude remember previous conversations?
Not reliably on its own. Each chat largely starts fresh, and built-in memory is limited and not something you fully control. The dependable way to make Claude remember your business is to put the context in a file it loads at the start of every conversation. Then it knows your team, tools, and how you work without you re-explaining.
Does Claude have memory like ChatGPT?
Both have a memory feature, and both are aimed at light personalization rather than a full picture of your business. The portable approach works the same way in either tool: a markdown file with your business context that you paste into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. You write the context once and it gives any AI the same lasting memory of your company.
How do I give Claude memory of my business?
Put your business context in a structured markdown file and have Claude read it. You can write one by hand, or generate one here in about two minutes. Answer six short questions and we produce a CLAUDE.md plus a knowledge base about your company, free to start. Drop it into a Claude Project or Claude Code and Claude remembers your business from then on.
What is the difference between Claude's memory feature and a memory file?
Claude's built-in memory is automatic, limited, and mostly out of your hands. A memory file is the opposite: you decide exactly what goes in it, you can read and edit it, and it lives outside the model so it never quietly drifts. For a business, control and accuracy matter more than convenience, which is why a file you own beats memory you cannot see.
Does Claude remember between chats and projects?
With a memory file, yes. Because the context lives in a document rather than inside a single conversation, every new chat or project that loads the file starts with the same knowledge of your business. Put it in a Claude Project so all chats in that project share it, or in a Claude Code project root so it loads automatically.
Is Claude's memory persistent?
A memory file makes it persistent and portable. The built-in feature can reset, change, or behave differently across plans and updates. A markdown file you keep does not: it is the same context every session, it survives model changes, and it moves with you to any AI tool. You own it, so it lasts as long as you want it to.
Can I control what Claude remembers?
With a file, completely. You can open it, see every fact it holds, and edit or remove anything. Nothing is remembered that you did not put there. That is the main reason businesses prefer a memory file over automatic memory: there are no hidden notes about your company, just a document you control.
Does this work with ChatGPT and Gemini too?
Yes. The memory file is plain markdown, so it is not locked to Claude. Paste the same content into ChatGPT custom instructions or a Gemini prompt and that AI gets the same memory of your business. You bring the AI; the file is the memory it reads.
Is it free to give Claude memory of my business?
Generating your memory file is free, with no card required. You also get a free AI Action Plan and the first knowledge-base docs. The full knowledge base, the prompt and skill library, and the one-paste connection are a one-time paid upgrade. There is no subscription.
Give Claude lasting memory of your business.
Answer six questions and build the memory file Claude reads every chat, free. No signup to start.