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--- first_captured: 2026-04-10 sources: - sources/google-sheets-ideas.md status: explored tags: - ai - memory - context - agents - software title: axon type: idea updated: 2026-04-11 visibility: public --- # axon axon is a personal memory and context layer that sits between your life's data and AI agents. the name is apt — axons are the signal-transmitting fibers of neurons, and this is the system that transmits personal context to wherever it needs to go. the core problem: every AI tool you use starts from zero. it does not know who you are, what you have built, what you care about, or what you did last week. axon is the persistent layer that fixes this. the architecture is a structured store of personal context — not raw transcripts or files, but synthesized, indexed, and queryable facts about you. things like: "Harrison is working on X project," "he knows a friend, who is interested in X," "he has been thinking about acoustic drone detection for 3 months." agents query axon before acting, which means they are not starting from scratch. the [[always-on-ai-assistant|always-on AI assistant]] feeds raw material into axon; [[life-search|life search]] is the human-facing query interface; the [[me-model|me model]] is the personalization layer that interprets the context. axon is the data structure between them. this is the most important infrastructure idea in the [[cluster-memory-and-context|memory and context]] cluster — it is not a product so much as a substrate that makes other products better. think of it as a personal knowledge graph that grows over time. the challenge is schema design: how do you represent context in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate anything but structured enough to be queryable and useful? the [[universal-data-capturer|universal data capturer]] addresses the raw ingestion problem; axon is the layer above that. related: [[context-window-optimizer|context window optimizer]]