Your AI shouldn’t start over every Monday.
The problem isn’t intelligence. The problem is continuity: the decisions, reasons, open threads, and current truth that disappear between sessions. The field forming around that problem is moving fast and fragmenting faster. This project maps it.
The Field Guide
An independent guide to the emerging continuity layer for AI systems. Who’s building what, which claims hold up, what the words mean, and what’s still missing. We didn’t invent the category, and we don’t sell a packaged continuity platform. We build and document governed continuity systems in the field, and we map the broader category as it develops.
The Ladder (how to read this field)
Most people meet this problem in stages:
- 01
Forgetting. Your AI starts every session from zero.
- 02
Stale memory. You bolt on a memory tool — and now it confidently remembers things that are no longer true.
- 03
Ungoverned writes. Anything can write anything into memory, nothing records why, and nothing retires what changed.
- 04
Governed continuity. Facts carry timestamps and lineage. New truth supersedes old truth with a reason attached. The system can show its work.
Most of the field is solving stages one and two. The interesting frontier — still underdeveloped in most memory systems — is governance of writes. That’s the lens this guide reads everything through.
Watch it work.
Not slides — a real system, running real businesses, on camera. Demo 001 shows a governed continuity layer answering with current truth, being challenged with a stale fact, and then opening the raw database: valid_to and superseded_by columns on screen. Data, not model behavior.
Field Watch
Neutral profiles of the people and projects shaping AI continuity — labs, tools, benchmarks, papers. Entries are updated as the field moves.
Maintained by an independent builder testing continuity patterns in live systems.
This map is maintained by an independent builder who tests continuity patterns in live production systems. The maintainer also does commercial work in this field. The two are kept separate: the map sells nothing, takes no sponsorships, and favors no vendor — including the maintainer’s own.
The field moves weekly. The map keeps up.
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