Agents got smart fast. But every session still starts at zero. Engram is our attempt to give them a brain , one that lives on your machine, grows over time, and never leaves your control.
Coined by Richard Semon in 1904. A small population of neurons that fired together during an experience, and fires again when the memory is recalled. Modern neuroscience (Tonegawa lab, MIT) made the metaphor concrete: engram cells exist, and you can optogenetically reactivate them to trigger recall.
We borrowed the structure: every capture is a node, every connection a synapse, recall is a pattern firing across the graph. Hence the name.
Every architecture decision in Engram flows from these. When they conflict with growth tactics, the principles win.
The cloud is optional, only for sync and transit when you opt into Pro. The Free tier never touches a server we own.
Embeddings and transcription happen locally (Ollama, whisper.cpp). Hosted compute is opt-in with transparent quotas.
Copy it. Back it up. Open it in any SQL tool. Export to Markdown + JSON via one CLI command. Always.
The local server, the 21 tools, the ingestion pipelines, open source. The cloud workers powering Pro stay proprietary; they're what we charge for.
We didn't want another note-taking app. We wanted what cortex does, a substrate where everything connects, recall is associative, and the structure emerges from use, not from upfront taxonomy.
, Emeric, founder · RavioleLabs
A bash script that piped Claude Code transcripts into a SQLite + LanceDB store. It worked. We knew we had something.
MCP standardized just in time. We collapsed the bash mess into a proper MCP server with semantic search, watches, and typed memories.
iOS and Android apps for voice notes and link sharing. E2E sync infrastructure on Cloudflare. First Pro testers.
Visualizing the engram as a force-directed graph in three.js. Nodes pulse. Synapses glow. It made the architecture click for users.
The core MCP server is source-available (Elastic 2.0) and live on GitHub. Cloud sync, mobile, and hosted compute land in waves as the protocol stabilizes and the dashboard hits parity with the desktop bridge.
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