A memory that asks for nothing

MemoryPilot grew out of an everyday annoyance: knowing you wrote something down, somewhere, and no longer knowing where. The problem is never that you forgot the information. It’s that you forgot where you put it.

The starting bet

Most note-taking apps ask for three things before they accept anything: a title, a folder, a tag. That’s three decisions, and one decision per note ends up costing more than forgetting ever did. That’s why people give up on a digital notebook after three weeks, never because it was missing a feature.

MemoryPilot asks for nothing. You type or dictate a sentence, the way you’d say it to someone. It works out what it’s about, files it in one of seven families, and hands it back when you ask again, even in different words from the ones you used.

Three technical decisions you can feel in use

Search runs on your phone

Your memory is indexed locally. So searching costs nothing, goes nowhere, and works on a plane as well as in an underground parking garage, which is exactly where you end up looking for a parking code. It’s not a feat: it’s the choice not to send on a trip what has no reason to travel.

Your whole memory never goes to a model

When a question requires understanding a new sentence, what goes out is your question and six useful excerpts, not your memory. So the cost of a question doesn’t depend on how much you’ve stored, and that’s what lets us avoid charging by volume.

What’s sensitive never shows

A code, a password, a number go into the vault. The title of a vault memory never contains its value: you read “Gate code”, never the code. That isn’t encryption. It’s more ordinary, and more useful day to day: it keeps people from reading your screen over your shoulder on the subway.

What we don’t do

• No advertising, and nothing you entrust to us is sold or rented to anyone.
• No model training on your memories. It’s written into the contracts that bind us to our providers, and it can be checked.
• No promise of end-to-end encryption until it exists. The backup is encrypted, the key sits on the server side, and we say so in black and white in the privacy policy rather than letting you believe otherwise.
• No feature added just because a competitor has it. A memory that does everything is a memory you stop opening.

The name

MemoryPilot is written as one word. Memory Pilot, as two words, or memorypilot, all lowercase, refer to the same app and the same website: if that’s how you searched for it, you’re in the right place. The pilot is the one who doesn’t rely on memory and reads the checklist again; the memory is what you hand over.

Who’s behind it

MemoryPilot is published by Brian-Clarky Biendou, a sole trader (entrepreneur individuel) based in Toulouse, France. No investment firm, no team of thirty: one person who writes the product, tests it and answers the emails. It’s slower, and it has a direct upside for you: there’s nobody to win over before turning down a feature that would hurt the product.

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