Tenure

Tenure is persistent AI memory that follows you across every tool, session, and interface—and it stays fully local on your machine. Think about every AI chat you've ever had—Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot—all of them forget everything the moment you close the window. Your next conversation starts from zero like you never spoke before. Tenure fixes that. It remembers what you told previous AIs, carries context across sessions, and works seamlessly whether you're in a code editor, a Slack thread, or a browser. The "fully local" part means your conversations never leave your device—privacy intact, no cloud dependencies, just your AI actually knowing who you are and what you've discussed. It's on GitHub, which means developers can inspect, audit, and self-host everything. This is the anti-SaaS approach to AI memory—no subscriptions, no data harvesting, just functional persistence that should have existed years ago.

They're building for developers and power users who've been frustrated by AI that can't remember—a market that's essentially everyone using AI tools today. Open source + local-first is a rare combo in a world where every startup wants your data in their cloud. Tenure just made the argument that your AI's memory shouldn't require a subscription.