CarryOver
A portable profile for your AI assistants — when a coaching, therapy, journaling, or scheduling bot shuts down or you switch to a new one, CarryOver ports your history, prompts, and preferences so you don't start over from scratch.
consumers who lean on a personal AI assistant for coaching, journaling, or daily planning
- Export your prompts, journal entries, and preferences as a portable, structured profile
- One-click import into a replacement AI assistant with a 'handoff brief' the new agent can read
- A 'lock-in score' that shows which apps make it easy or hard to leave, based on export formats and terms
- Vendor shutdown alerts so you can migrate before a service disappears
The satirical story of AI agents being 'laid off' with token severance is funny precisely because real AI assistants are being deprecated, pivoted, or shut down — and users are left with no portable standard to carry their context with them.
Documented 2025 AI companion shutdowns (Dot AI, Moxie Robot, Yara AI, Soulmate) left users with no migration path; Replika ERP removal and Character.AI overhauls created real continuity crises, and the HN 'Severance' story hit 190 points signaling resonance.AI Companion Apps That Shut Down in 2025: RIP List ↗What Happens When Your AI Companion Shuts Down? ↗
Space is already crowded: Context Pack (5.5k+ packs created, 55k memories stored, funded startup), CompanionBridge on GitHub, multiple blog guides, and Anthropic shipping native memory import/export in Claude itself — plus ChatGPT's own memory feature.Context Pack - Your AI's Long-Term Memory ↗Import and export your memory from Claude | Claude Help Center ↗GitHub - PolyethereaLabs/CompanionBridge ↗
B2C consumers have low willingness to pay for utility tooling; competitors offer free tiers, Claude/ChatGPT ship this natively, and Context Pack's pricing isn't even surfaced publicly — a tell of weak paid conversion.Context Pack - Your AI's Long-Term Memory ↗Import and export your memory from Claude | Claude Help Center ↗
Real and growing structural problem: AI companion/coaching apps churn frequently (4 documented 2025 shutdowns), no portability standard exists, and context loss compounds as users invest more history — need will intensify as agent adoption grows.AI Companion Apps That Shut Down in 2025: RIP List ↗What Happens When Your AI Girlfriend's Platform Shuts Down ↗
Technically proven — multiple working implementations exist (Context Pack production app, open-source CompanionBridge, native features inside Claude and ChatGPT), suggesting the core pipeline is well-understood and buildable in weeks, not months.Context Pack - Your AI's Long-Term Memory ↗GitHub - PolyethereaLabs/CompanionBridge ↗