Memory Portability Audit
The Memory Portability Audit framework treats an agent memory layer like a client's content management system: the real cost is not the subscription, but the ease with which institutional knowledge can be extracted and migrated. For agencies, this matters because client-specific architecture, brand guidelines, and past decisions accumulate in memory tools over months. If that memory cannot be exported cleanly, switching tools means losing the very asset that made the agency efficient. A practical audit checks three things: whether the tool offers a documented export format, whether that format preserves entity relationships and provenance, and whether the export can be re-imported into a competitor without manual reconstruction. For example, Cogni's entity-graph structure may capture rich connections, but if it exports only flat JSON, the graph's value is lost. Knownbase and OzBrain, by contrast, organize notes by project and tags, which may export more cleanly. Agencies should run this audit before committing to any memory layer, not after.
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What is Memory Portability Audit?
“Memory portability → vendor lock-in risk”
The Memory Portability Audit framework treats an agent memory layer like a client's content management system: the real cost is not the subscription, but the ease with which institutional knowledge can be extracted and migrated. For agencies, this matters because client-specific architecture, brand guidelines, and past decisions accumulate in memory tools over months. If that memory cannot be exported cleanly, switching tools means losing the very asset that made the agency efficient. A practical audit checks three things: whether the tool offers a documented export format, whether that format preserves entity relationships and provenance, and whether the export can be re-imported into a competitor without manual reconstruction. For example, Cogni's entity-graph structure may capture rich connections, but if it exports only flat JSON, the graph's value is lost. Knownbase and OzBrain, by contrast, organize notes by project and tags, which may export more cleanly. Agencies should run this audit before committing to any memory layer, not after.