No. 03 · Where this is going
Continio is built independently by a solo female founder. Not a corporation. Not a side project.
After a life-changing accident, I found myself using AI every day, trying to figure out how I could work now, what I could do, researching recovery methods, self-help, figuring out myself and who I was now everything had changed...
And it just kept forgetting me. Mid-conversation. Halfway through a thread. The AI would start forgetting what I'd said, mixing things up, lying, making up connections to things I hadn't even said. I'd correct it, it would apologise (rolls eyes) but it would still do the same again just two messages later. It was so frustrating.
Every time I started a new thread, even though it claimed to have 'memory', it knew nothing - not who I am. Not what I do. Not what I was working on. Not really anything useful. It couldn't even remember the people I spoke about all the time. Over and over, I just kept starting over, when I just needed something to help me figure 'stuff' out.
In fact, it was more than frustrating. It was wasteful. The hours I'd spent explaining myself, the things I'd figured out, all the things I hadn't yet! The projects I was working on, and so much more... All of it just lost, over and over again. A nightmare scenario for my neurodivergent brain!
One day I got so frustrated with it - mid-conversation, trying to figure out a way to manage all my projects and whether I could build my own project management app for neurodivergent minds, but the AI kept forgetting what we were even discussing, and so I just said to it 'maybe I'll just build something with memory instead!!!'. It's sure been a journey and Continio is evolving all the time, but I'm kind of proud of what I've built - it remembers. I don't get lost. Bingo!
Memory products already existed. Notion, Obsidian, Mem, dozens of others. They all wanted you to capture, organise, tag, link. They were tools for archivists.
What I needed was different. Not a place to put information. A place where the AI I was already talking to remembered who I was. Without me curating it. Without me organising it. Without me doing extra work.
That's what Continio is. Continuity, not capture. The AI remembers you the way a thoughtful colleague would, and you can read what it remembers like a document. Edit it. Trust it. Stop telling it the same things.
The technology exists to do this. The reason it doesn't already exist is that the companies who could build it have other priorities. They're optimising for engagement, for advertisers, for shareholder returns, for whatever the quarter demands. Memory that genuinely serves the user isn't on their roadmap.
So I built it instead.
better, for the people who use it.
Continio is built and run by me, Lou May. A designer and photographer by background, neurodivergent, and an early adopter of AI.
I do the work. The architecture, the writing, the design, the photography, the conversations with users, the late nights debugging. The whole thing.
The plan is to grow into a small team of people who care about what Continio stands for. People who want to build something that genuinely serves the person paying for it, not the corporation behind it. We'll grow slowly and deliberately, and only when it makes Continio better.
Continio stays grounded in its principles, always. That isn't a marketing line. It's the only reason this exists at all.
Not advertisers. Not data brokers. Not governments or military buyers. The person paying for Continio is the only customer that matters.
And honest about what it isn't. We tell you what we store, where, how. We tell you what we don't do with it. More on Trust
What Continio remembers about you should be visible, editable, deletable. No hidden profiles. No silent inferences. If you can't read it, it shouldn't exist.
No fake personality. No trying to sound clever. No pretending to feel things. Continio is a tool. It works for you. The end.
We grow at a pace that lets us keep our principles. We hire when it makes the product better. We don't ship features that compromise what Continio is for.
Independently built. Independently funded. Drop me a line at hello@continio.app.
