I. The Problem

There is no standard for memory today. Every AI tool remembers differently, stores differently, retrieves differently. Some call it context. Others call it a knowledge graph, a vector store, a conversation history. But none of them agree on the format, and none of them can prove what they remember or where it came from.

Without a standard, it does not matter what you remember. The data has no shape. No provenance. No structure that travels across tools, teams, or time. You're left with fragments — scattered across apps, locked inside sessions, invisible to auditors.

II. Defining the Standard

The memory standard is a patent-pending framework that captures, compresses, verifies, and retrieves across five dimensions. Automatically, locally, at every layer of the stack. It is not a product. It is the foundation on which products are built.

We defined the format. We built the algorithm. We patented the combination. The result is a universal structure for memory — the Universal Memory Object (UMO) — that any AI system can produce, verify, and consume.

Memory API

One API call — access point

Memory Algorithm

Patent-pending — transforms input → UMO

Memory Standard

The foundation — five dimensions

III. The Five Dimensions

Every memory that passes through the standard is structured across all five dimensions. No other system, product, or solution on the market covers them all. Most address two, maybe three. The standard requires all five.

IV. How It Compares

Most systems that claim to handle memory cover only a fraction of what the standard requires. Below is a dimensional comparison between typical AI memory approaches and the memory standard.

V. The Format — UMO

The Universal Memory Object is the output of the standard. Every piece of memory — whether captured automatically from a conversation, submitted manually through a form, or ingested from an API — is compressed into a UMO. A UMO is structured, cryptographically hashed, timestamped, and portable.

Universal Memory Object

id: umo_8f3a2b1c
captured: 2026-03-15T14:32:00Z
source: meeting_transcript
owner: user_0x7d4e
hash: sha256:e3b0c44...
dimensions: [5/5]

Five qualities define a UMO: Private, Structured, Traceable, Unified, and Permanent. These are not aspirational — they are enforced by the algorithm at creation time.

VI. The New Standard

That's what makes MemoryIntelligence™ the new standard.

It's not a feature. Not a wrapper. Not another vector store. It is the only memory API built on a patented memory algorithm. One standard. One algorithm. One API call.