One question.
A single line of inquiry keeps attention on the unresolved decision.
07 / AI Laboratory · PRDY
Private long-term companion
Memory changes the question.
PRDY interviews across a life and career so a new question can arrive with history—not as another stateless chat.
The current system structures memories after reflective sessions. A subset already powers Ask Rohan. Broader semantic retrieval remains pending.
01
The conversation contract
Less reflection.
More excavation.
The persona is constrained because generic conversational politeness gets in the way. PRDY asks one question, pursues why rather than what, and avoids immediately summarising the answer back.
The intent is not to process experience for the user. It is to create the conditions in which the reasoning behind an experience can become explicit.
WHY, not WHAT.
Events matter as context; the system pursues reasoning, constraints and belief.
Do not echo.
Immediate reflective summaries are replaced by the next useful question.
02
The memory architecture
A chapter spine becomes
structured memory.
Conversations accumulate locally as they happen. At session close, a synthesis pass extracts smaller memory units with themes, era, type and importance.
01 · Why design?
02 · Design school
03 · Product
04 · Social impact
05 · Systems
06 · Human factors
07 · Leadership
08 · Healthcare
09 · Models
10 · Beliefs
11 · What next
decision / constraint
pattern / belief
failure / learning
connection / era
change / why
SELECTED
MEMORIES
→ ASK ROHAN
MEMORIES
→ ASK ROHAN
03
The live connection
The portfolio already
remembers selectively.
Ask Rohan is live. It retrieves a small set of PRDY-derived memories and uses them to answer portfolio questions in context.
That is different from the larger semantic-memory ambition. The current workflow is top-memory retrieval—not pgvector similarity across a complete autobiography. The distinction stays explicit so “persistent memory” does not become a claim of complete understanding.
Memory creates responsibility.
Persistent context can make questions better, but it also makes personal experience structurally reusable. Selective retrieval and privacy are product behavior, not back-office details.
04
The privacy boundary
The system can be shown. The memories cannot.
Raw transcripts, extracted memories, personal secrets and identifiable third-party information remain private. The public case demonstrates the chapter structure, question contract, synthesis model and selective connection to Ask Rohan without exposing autobiographical content or implying complete semantic recall.