The notes

What we wrote down while building it.

Benchmark runs with their cost and methodology attached, the architecture written out in full, the head-to-head comparisons we would have wanted before choosing a memory layer, and the tutorials for wiring one into an agent.

16 posts

Enterprise3 min read

Enterprise Security

How CortexDB approaches security for production deployments. We secure the platform using PASETO v4 bearer authentication, hierarchical scopes, and 4-tier capability stacks.

Enterprise3 min read

Deployment Profiles

How CortexDB uses deployment profiles to gate enterprise controls. We support four profiles—startup, growth, enterprise, and custom—to match your operational maturity.

Benchmark3 min read

Benchmark Results

How CortexDB performs on long-term memory benchmarks. We report 93.8% on LongMemEval-S using our lossless event-sourced architecture and 4-channel hybrid retrieval.

Enterprise3 min read

Backups and Disaster Recovery

How CortexDB handles backups and disaster recovery. We utilize RocksDB checkpoints, object-store upload targets, and WAL archival to enable point-in-time recovery.

Enterprise3 min read

Audit Trail

How CortexDB logs every API operation for compliance, security monitoring, and debugging. The system captures structured fields, supports SIEM export, and ensures verifiable deletion.

Architecture4 min read

CortexDB Architecture

How CortexDB leverages a lossless event-sourced architecture, async knowledge graph enrichment, and 4-channel hybrid retrieval for AI agent memory.

Announcement9 min read

CortexDB V1: The Experience Layer for AI Agents

V1 of CortexDB is live: 93.8% on LongMemEval-S (beating Mem0), 86.9% on LoCoMo, the five-layer memory model, hierarchical scopes, PASETO auth, and 31 integrations plus 16 connectors — built in 8 weeks.

Benchmark10 min read

CortexDB vs the Competition: A Production-Scale Memory Benchmark

A controlled internal comparison of CortexDB against an LLM-rewrite-on-write baseline across five production-scale scenarios. CortexDB reports 84.2% retrieval accuracy against the baseline's 31.8% at 1/337th the daily write-path cost.

Tutorial2 min read

How to Add Memory to Your Hermes Agent

A walkthrough of using CortexDB as a long-term memory provider for NousResearch's Hermes Agent — with persistent recall, background writes, and prefetching.

Tutorial4 min read

Give Your OpenClaw Agent a Real Memory

OpenClaw turns Claude into a desktop coworker with eyes and hands. CortexDB gives that coworker a memory that survives restarts, machines, and weeks.

Tutorial6 min read

Building an AI Companion with Perfect Memory

A step-by-step guide to building an AI companion that remembers everything — preferences, past conversations, decisions, and context — using OpenAI and CortexDB.

Try it

Bring the workflow that gets it wrong.

One command starts a local instance with its own volume. The changelog carries every release behind it.