Assistants have gotten remarkably good at helping us run our lives. But every new assistant still starts from zero. We explain our job, our plans and our people, get the answer, and do it all again in the next app.
And most of us no longer use just one. There’s the assistant for writing, another on the phone, maybe an agent for errands. Each one knows a slice of you, and none of them compare notes. The future isn’t one perfect chatbot... it’s every assistant you use knowing the same you.
Built-in memory isn’t enough
Unfortunately, the memory built into each assistant stays inside that one product, so your own head is still doing the remembering. Psychologists have a name for handing that job to a tool: “cognitive offloading”11
Cues is the memory behind your AI
We’re building one private memory for a world where you talk to more than one assistant. It’s designed to hold the goals, people, plans and decisions of your life, linked to each other, and every assistant you connect reads it before it answers and adds to it after you talk. There’s no new app to learn: the chat you already use is the interface, and Cues is the part that remembers. The goal is not to think for you, but to give your head more room for the thinking only you can do.
What we believe
Rather than give you a feature list (it’s early, so you’ll just have to trust us that the boring parts come first), here are the ideas Cues is built around.
- Memory should follow you, not the vendor - Your context shouldn’t be locked inside one company’s chatbot. Cues sits outside any single AI, so you can switch between the assistants you connect, or mix them, without starting over. Your memory is designed to live in its own isolated instance, and an assistant only reads it once you connect that assistant yourself.
- Structure should grow with your life - A student, a founder and a parent need different shapes of memory. Cues will start with the basics and aims to add the kinds of records your life actually needs, so it gets more useful over time instead of turning into a junk drawer.
- Your head is for thinking - Remembering more should not mean thinking about more. Say anything in one sentence (an idea, a promise, a someday) and trust that it’s kept. Cues aims to hand your AI only what matters for the question at hand.
What we’re not building
- Another chatbot - We’re not asking you to move into a new app or get to know a new assistant. Cues works through the ones you already talk to. The chat is the interface; Cues is just the part that remembers.
- A walled garden - Your memory is always going to be yours. We want to make it more useful, but not trap it inside Cues. You should always be able to take it with you, and deleting it should mean it’s gone.
- Another notes app - No folders to tend and no documents to keep tidy. If you love writing long notes, keep doing it. Cues is for the things you’d rather just say, once, to whichever assistant is open.
Who is Cues for?
- The people we’re building for already talk to AI every day, and have long been tired of introducing themselves to every new chat and every new assistant.
- We’re starting with Claude, ChatGPT and Grok, then Gemini and personal agents, for anyone whose day is split across a few of them.
- For now, Cues is designed for one person per memory (plus all their assistants). We haven’t built anything for families or teams yet, but if your whole household joins one by one, we won’t stop you :)
Getting started
- We’re opening a small, free closed alpha in December 2026, so thank you for your patience!
- If you use two or more assistants every day, tell us which ones after you join. You’re exactly who we need in the alpha & it helps us decide who goes first.
- After the alpha, the plan is $20 a month with a two-week free trial. Until then, it’s on us ;)