Agent Memory

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Hand-drawn editorial illustration on cream paper: a night-time study desk where a memory is being filed — a large open ledger labelled 'company memory' glows under a brass desk lamp, beside an open card-catalogue drawer and a hand filing an index card, with small kraft tags reading 'ingestion', 'the graph', 'the filesystem' and 'sleep-time', and a crescent moon in a corner window.

Thought LeadershipAI MemoryCompany Brain

The Company That Remembers

Every business wants an "AI brain." The model was never the hard part — the memory is. A field report on the three schools of AI memory in 2026, the benchmark scandal underneath them, and how a founder should actually choose.

Marco Lobo·31 May 2026·12 min read

Photograph of a UK Sun-style tabloid newspaper front page lying on a desk — masthead THE SUN, screaming red-and-black headline TAN vs CLAW with deck Silicon Valley benchmark BLOODBATH, split press-photo of Garry Tan and the OpenClaw lobster mascot facing off, yellow EXCLUSIVE sticker, bottom strip of unrelated tabloid teasers, real desk context with bacon sandwich and tea ring

AI EngineeringAgent MemoryRetrieval

We benchmarked Garry Tan's gbrain against our own agent memory on 150 real questions (May 2026)

A 352-file, 150-question apples-to-apples retrieval benchmark between gbrain and our existing OpenClaw qmd setup. gbrain wins 8.3x more often on hard, cross-source, and discrimination questions — but the headline is messier than the marketing.

Marco Lobo·5 May 2026·17 min read