Building an AI Memory Layer: A Problem I Didn’t Expect

While working on Contorium, I discovered something interesting. The hardest technical problem wasn’t connecting models. It wasn’t MCP. It wasn’t tool calling. It was context management. A Common Workflow A developer might: Discuss architecture with ChatGPT Debug code with Claude Research with Gemini Document findings in GitHub A week later, they need that information again. Now they have to remember: Which tool was used? Which conversation contained the answer? Whether the informati...