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title: "Why I Built Total Recall | Total Recall"
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# About Total Recall

> Why Alex Greenshpun built Total Recall.

Total Recall is built and maintained by [Alex Greenshpun](https://linkedin.com/in/alexgreensh). It exists because AI agents forget everything the moment a session ends, forcing you to re-explain your project, your decisions, and your context every single time.

Total Recall is a memory layer that captures the actual work as it happens, the sessions, decisions, files, and recurring patterns, and feeds the right piece back to your agent in the moment. It is local-first, proactive, and shared across the agents you already use.

## Works alongside your agents

Total Recall runs next to Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Hermes and shares one memory across all of them: decide something in Codex, and Claude recovers it.

## Contact

Commercial licensing and questions: hello@total-recall.dev. See the [contact page](https://total-recall.dev/contact).