AI memory
AI memory is an AI system's ability to retain information across sessions — your preferences, your business's facts, decisions, and summaries of past work — instead of starting from a blank slate every time. In Kuvai, each AI teammate keeps its own private notebook of how your business works, so it stops asking you to re-explain the basics and gets more useful the longer it works with you.
Key characteristics
- Persists between conversations — context doesn't reset when a session ends
- Holds durable facts: your preferences, standing rules, systems, and summaries of completed work
- Is scoped per teammate (and per project), not one global memory shared by everything
- Is inspectable and editable — you can see and correct what a teammate remembers
- Differs from a model's training: it stores your context for you, it doesn't make the model 'smarter'
Example
A Kuvai bookkeeper teammate remembers that you categorize Stripe payouts to a specific revenue account and that month-end close runs on the third business day — so the next month it applies those rules without being told again.
How it relates to Kuvai
Most AI forgets the moment you close the tab. A Kuvai teammate's memory is what turns one-off prompting into a teammate that actually knows your business — the backbone of compounding delegation.
Related terms
An AI teammate is a software colleague that owns a defined job end-to-end — grounded in a business's own documents and data, connected to its tools, and running on a schedule. Unlike an AI assistant you prompt, a teammate works continuously, accumulates your context, and drafts actions for your approval rather than waiting to be asked.
Self-learning AISelf-learning AI describes an AI system that improves at a job over time from feedback and experience, rather than performing identically forever. In Kuvai, self-learning is operational, not model retraining: after completed work, a teammate reviews how it went, captures durable facts, and proposes refinements to its own instructions that you approve. It improves from your corrections — it does not change on its own or 'get smarter.'
Compounding delegationCompounding delegation is the idea that work you hand to an AI teammate gets easier and more valuable to delegate over time — because the teammate accumulates context, improves from your corrections, and can take on more autonomy as it earns trust. It's the Kuvai term for what happens when memory, curiosity, self-learning, and autonomy stack: the more a teammate works with you, the less you have to repeat yourself.
Grounding (AI)Grounding is the practice of tying an AI system's outputs to a specific, trusted source of truth — your own documents, data, and rules — so its answers reflect your business rather than generic internet knowledge. A grounded AI cites and works from your sources; an ungrounded one guesses.
Digital workerA digital worker is software designed to perform an ongoing business role — owning a function and producing real output — rather than completing a single task on command. It's the industry term for AI that works like a member of the team; Kuvai calls these AI teammates.