The assistants remember you now, after a fashion. A few facts, kept on their servers, inside their app. What none of them have is the work itself: your files, your projects, your people, the decisions and why you made them.
Your context, your preferences, your history, what you already tried and why it did not work.
A good answer. Real value. There is nothing wrong with this part, and that is exactly what makes the problem hard to see.
It may recall a few facts about you. It has never seen your documents, your projects, or the people you work with, and it cannot touch any of them.
The intelligence is the cheap part. Your work is the expensive part, and a memory kept on someone else's server, that cannot reach your files and cannot act on them, is not the same as an AI that knows you.
A log of what was said is not memory. Memory is what happened, what it meant, and what to do about it next time. Maison keeps all three, and it keeps them about the parts of your life you actually brought to it.
Who they are to you, what you are doing together, and where that stands right now. You never introduce anybody twice, and it does not ask you again next month.
What you chose and why you chose it. That is the part that stops a question from being reopened six weeks later by somebody who was not there.
Every job it has run for you, what it turned up along the way, and what it decided while you were somewhere else. It picks a thread back up where it was left.
Every time it works something out it writes down how, and that becomes a skill it keeps. The second time you ask for a thing, it already knows the shape of it.
Once it holds the history, it stops waiting to be asked. It notices that the renewal you mentioned in spring is due, that you said you would check in after somebody's surgery, that the deck you are about to send is the version she already has.
You said you would check in after the surgery, and you meant it, and then a week went by. It brings that back to you while it still counts.
The work it did last month is context for the work you are asking about today, without you having to reconstruct any of it first.
Knowing the history is what lets it tell you that a trade is bad for you, or that something you are about to send will land badly. Flattery has never helped anybody.
It runs on your hardware, which is what keeps this yours rather than rented back to you. See what runs locally, or where your information sits.
Yes. Maison keeps one continuous memory rather than a session. It holds what happened, what it meant and what to do about it next time, along with every person you have mentioned and every decision and the reason behind it. You never introduce yourself twice.
Less than they used to. ChatGPT and Claude both keep memory across conversations now, so that part of the complaint is out of date. What they keep is a summary of you, held on their servers, inside their app. They have never seen your files, your projects or your deliverables, and they cannot act on them. The intelligence is the cheap part. Your work is the expensive part.
In a private database on your own disk. Everything Maison comes to know about you is a file you own and can read, copy, back up or delete without asking anyone. Keeping it on your machine is the default and it is included.
Less than people expect. Six months of the heaviest daily use we have measured came to 1.2 GB. That is why keeping it on your own machine costs you almost nothing, and why we would rather you did.
Yes. The memory sits beside the model rather than inside it, so it survives restarts, software upgrades, and changing the model underneath for a newer one. A better model arriving does not cost you the relationship.
Yes. It is plain files in a database on your drive, not a black box. You can open it, copy it, or delete any of it, and if you walk away from Maison entirely the memory is still there and still yours.