What happened
What generic memory stores
The memory layer behind everything we build
Your world is made of particular people, commitments, and history.
Generic memory stores what an average user said. We are building the layer that stores who you are: the people, the promises, and the past that make up your life, each carrying its own source and its own status. Nothing gets confirmed on your behalf without your say.
A research direction, not a product yet. No launch date. We plan to open-source the core when it is ready.
How a memory is built
You describe what happened. The memory keeps who it is about.
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Capture in your words
Describe an event, a conversation, a promise. No forms, no categories to fill in first.
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Person root
Every memory answers "about whom." A fact about your manager is anchored to them, not to a floating profile.
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Provenance
Who said it, when, in what context. A claim and its source travel together, never apart.
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Fact and inference stay apart
What was said is not the same as what is true. An unverified claim keeps that label.
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Synthesis, not storage
Relationships and commitments are derived and shown to you, not asserted into a fixed record.
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Your control
Nothing is promoted to long-term memory without your confirmation. The record stays yours to correct.
The goal is a memory that belongs to the person it describes, and works in that person's interest.
One-minute walkthrough
The same moment, stored two ways.
How person-centered memory stores it
One event, fully attributed
Person
Source
Claim
Cost carried by
Status
Three differences
What separates it from a profile.
It models your world
Not a flat list of preferences. The particular people, the commitments between you, and the history that gives them weight.
It keeps provenance
The text of a memory is not enough. Who said it, when, and in what context stay attached, so you can tell a claim from a fact.
It works for you
An agent built on this memory acts in your interest. That is the point, and it is why the core will run where you control it.
Not a surveillance system
It remembers with you, not about you behind your back.
Facts and inference stay separate
An unverified claim keeps its label. The memory never quietly upgrades a guess into a fact.
Your world stays on your device
Local-first by design. The record that describes your life is not a vendor's asset to monetize.
Conclusions update when facts change
New evidence revises an earlier read. The system is built to be corrected, not to defend its first impression.
Open by design
We will open-source the core.
When it is ready, the memory layer will be released under an open-source license. Run a person-centered agent on your own hardware, working in your interest rather than a vendor's. No account required to think about your own life. We are not building this to sell it back to you.
- The research series: the engineering case, system by system. Read it now.
- Early access to the local-first build when it is ready.
- Source released under an open license, so you can run it yourself.
Researchers and builders interested in this direction are especially welcome to write to support@helmaiagent.com. We use your email only to share build progress. No advertising, no resale.