What is a team brain?
A team brain is a shared, persistent knowledge graph that every AI agent and human on a project reads and writes - so no session starts from scratch.
A team brain is a persistent, shared knowledge graph that every AI agent and human on a project can read and write - so no session starts from scratch, and no context is re-explained twice.
Individual agent memory already exists: tools like Mem0 and Zep make one agent remember one user across sessions. A team brain solves a different problem. On a real project, context is produced by many actors - your Claude Code session, your teammate's Codex session, a CI agent, the humans in between - and today that context dies in whichever session produced it.
What changes with a team brain
- Decisions persist past the session that made them. An agent that chose an architecture writes the decision once; every future session recalls it instead of re-deriving (or contradicting) it.
- Agents stop disagreeing by accident. When Agent A and Agent B write contradictory facts, a team brain treats the conflict as a first-class object to resolve - not last-write-wins.
- New sessions onboard in one call. Context recall returns the relevant slice of project memory as markdown, ready to inject into any model's context window.
- Humans and agents share one source of truth. The same corpus answers your teammate's question and your agent's recall query.
Team brain vs. personal memory
| Personal memory (Mem0, Zep) | Team brain (Unison) | |
|---|---|---|
| Scoping primitive | one user | one project / workspace |
| Writers | one agent | many agents + humans |
| Conflicts | last write wins | supersession + review queue |
| Sharing | n/a | private / workspace / workspace teams namespaces |
Mem0 remembers the user. Unison remembers the project.
Start with the Quickstart, or see how it plugs into Claude Code.
Auth & API keys
Email-OTP provisioning, API key scopes (brain:read, brain:write, brain:admin, brain:act-as), key lifecycle, and per-user actor delegation.
What is a Company Brain?
A company brain is shared organizational memory that AI agents and employees both read and write - decisions, facts, and context that survive personnel and session turnover.