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Shared memory for teams that work with AI
Shared memory for an AI team is one place the team curates — decisions, rules and the daily record — that every person's AI reads before it starts working, and writes back to when the work is done. Arroway is that place: the memory belongs to the project, not to a chat window, so the second person's assistant starts from what the first person already settled.
The team keeps one record, not one per assistant
Each AI tool keeps notes for itself. A team does not have a per-tool problem; it has a per-decision problem — the same rule explained again in every session, in every tool, by whoever happens to be there. Arroway holds decisions, rules, references and a dated log as project material, with the author of each line attached, so the record survives the session that produced it.
Reading happens before the work, not after the mistake
The protocol asks the assistant for one read at the start of a task and one written residue when it ends. That order is the whole point: memory that arrives after the answer is a post-mortem. What comes back is ranked against the task at hand, and the read declares how much of the budget it used and what did not fit, so nobody has to guess whether the AI actually received the rule.
Authorship stays with people, and it survives departures
Every memory and every log entry names the person who wrote it — the person answers for what their assistant recorded. Removing someone from a project removes their access and nothing else: authorship, provenance, connections and history stay, because what a project remembers belongs to the project.
What it looks like in practice
One person settles how refunds are handled and their assistant records it. The next day a teammate opens a fresh conversation in a different tool, asks about a refund, and their assistant already has the rule — nobody re-explained it, and nobody had to remember that a rule existed.
Questions people ask about this
- Is this the same as the memory built into my AI?
- They are not the same object, and Arroway does not publish a comparison it has not verified. What Arroway is: a place a team curates, where a human sanctions what governs, and where every member's AI reads the same material. Whether and how that overlaps with a specific tool's own memory depends on that tool, and is not something this page will assert for you.
- Does everyone need the same AI tool?
- No. The memory lives on a server your assistants connect to, so people on different tools read and write the same project.
- What happens the first time, when there is nothing recorded yet?
- It starts empty, on purpose. The first useful move is pointing the assistant at the documents, rules and decisions that already govern the work; it proposes what to record, and a person corrects what does not belong.
Where this is verifiable
Product documentation on this site (How it works, Install) and the sanctioned product spec in the repository. The claim about departures is a standing project rule, not an inference. No claim on this page compares Arroway to any specific AI tool's own memory.
https://www.arroway.app/en/answers/shared-memory-for-ai-teams