By Chris Mahl, CEO, Pryon
We just spent $13.8 billion on AI systems that can't remember yesterday.
Think about that for a second.
Your "intelligent" AI forgets every conversation the moment you close the session. Every breakthrough insight? Gone. Every carefully crafted context? Erased. Your wisdom of the past, never known.
It's like hiring the world's smartest consultant... with severe amnesia.
Here's the brutal truth:
• Only 1% of organizations consider their AI deployments mature
• 85% of AI projects never escape "pilot purgatory"
• We're trapped in a goldfish economy of brilliant 7-second attention spans
But here's what's shocking: Companies that solve AI memory see 33% productivity gains and 10x ROI.
The pattern is crystal clear:
❌ Disconnected AI = Endless restarts
✅ Memory-enabled AI = Compound intelligence
The $2.6 trillion AI opportunity won't go to whoever has the biggest models.
It'll go to whoever builds AI that actually remembers.
The memory divide is here. Have’s and Have nots…
On one side: Organizations stuck with brilliant amnesia, forever explaining context, forever starting over.
On the other: Companies with AI that learns, grows, and builds institutional knowledge like a human colleague.
Which side will you be on?