By Chris Mahl, CEO, Pryon
The humble filing cabinet was just the beginning...
In just 5 decades, we've witnessed a revolution that's transformed how organizations think, learn, and compete:
- 1970s: Physical filing cabinets (hours to find documents)
- 1980s: Digital documents (minutes to search)
- 1990s: Web-based systems (streamlined access)
- 2000s: Enterprise search (seconds to find information) 2010s: Cognitive platforms (pattern recognition)
- 2020s: Conversational AI (natural language access)
- 2024+: Agentic intelligence (autonomous reasoning)
What took hours in 1970 now takes milliseconds.
But here's what most leaders miss: Enterprise memory isn't infrastructure, it's your most strategic competitive advantage.
Organizations treating memory as the unified intelligence layer that enables AI to reason, learn, and deliver measurable outcomes are outpacing everyone else.
Here's to the visionaries who understand that enterprise memory isn't about storing information, it's about unleashing collective genius.
The companies that get this will change everything.
The ones that don't? Footnotes in someone else's memory system.
We're not building better filing cabinets.
We're building the mind of the enterprise itself. And that changes everything.