Product Memory System
Architecture for institutional memory — timeline, graph, and search working together.
A product memory system is more than storage. It is how your organization remembers: a timeline of what happened, a graph of how ideas connect, and search that returns answers — not just documents.
Wiki model
- Pages in folders
- Manual linking
- Stale unless someone maintains
- Search finds titles, not reasoning
Memory system model
- Events in time order
- Automatic links from capture
- Living initiative snapshots
- Ask questions across connected context
Components of product memory
- 1
Flow / timeline
Chronological stream of feedback, ideas, questions, decisions.
- 2
Reasoning graph
Links from decisions to evidence, alternatives, and assumptions.
- 3
Initiative lenses
Filtered views with key decisions and open questions.
- 4
Snapshots
Point-in-time summaries that update as the initiative evolves.
- 5
Query layer
Search and AI over structured events — not orphaned PDFs.
Prodigent is your product memory layer
Capture decisions and context where your team works. Connect the reasoning. Ask across everything you have learned.
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