You already know this. You rebuild the same context every morning. You paste in the same background, re-explain the same architecture, re-state the same constraints that were true yesterday and are still true today. It is a tax you have stopped noticing because you pay it every single day.
The obvious fix is memory. So the vendors built memory. Ask whose.
The question nobody asks out loud
Your company’s accumulated knowledge is one of the few things about it that compounds. Every decision made, every problem solved, every reason a thing was built the way it was built. That is the actual asset. Not the code. The reasoning behind the code.
When a vendor offers to remember it for you, ask what happens next. Where does it live. In what form. Who can read it. What happens to it if the terms change, if the company is acquired, if the product is deprecated, if you simply want to leave.
Most of the time the honest answer is: nobody knows, and there is no way to find out.
Safe and yours are two different things
Every vendor says the same thing: “your data is safe with us.” That is an answer to a different question, and the industry has spent years blurring the two.
Safe means encrypted, access-controlled, compliant, hosted in a defensible jurisdiction. All good things. None of them mean yours. A bank vault is safe. The contents are still not the bank’s.
The test for ownership is much simpler, and much harder to fake.
Not an export you request. Not a ticket you file and wait on. Four conditions, and whatever your team uses today either meets all four or it does not.
If the answer is no, you do not own it. You are licensing it back from whoever does.
What we built instead
Prima keeps your company’s memory in a git repository. Yours.
That is all four conditions, met by the format rather than by a policy. Git already gives you history, plain text and portability. There is no export to request, no schema to reverse engineer, and no API to beg access from. Take the whole thing somewhere else and nothing breaks.
We call it the stone repository, and that name is not decoration.