# Ori Siegal

> Context management: agent memory, context governance, and the company brain.

Every piece records both the date the thinking happened (written) and the date it
went public (published). Nothing here is backdated.

Each piece is also available as plain markdown at the same path with a .md suffix.

## Pages

- [Home](/): positioning and the six most recent pieces.
- [Blog](/blog): the full index.
- [About](/about): background and what this site covers.
- [Work](/work): the three engagements, stated as work.
- [Contact](/contact): how to start a conversation, and what is not wired yet.
- [Subscribe](/subscribe): how new pieces reach you.

## Writing

- [How agent memory gets written: hot path versus background](/blog/how-agent-memory-gets-written): Either the agent writes during the turn and the user waits, or it writes afterwards and the memory is not there for the next question. Each choice hands you a different set of problems. (CM-007, note, written 2026-08-25, published 2026-08-25, markdown: /blog/how-agent-memory-gets-written.md)
- [The three types of agent memory: semantic, episodic, procedural](/blog/three-types-of-agent-memory): Facts, events, and how-to. The split is borrowed from human-memory research, and two public sources already disagree about what belongs in the third category. (CM-006, guide, written 2026-08-25, published 2026-08-25, markdown: /blog/three-types-of-agent-memory.md)
- [What agent memory actually is, and why the context window isn't it](/blog/what-agent-memory-actually-is): The model remembers nothing between calls. The context window is the working area for one call, not a store — so anything that persists lives outside the model and has to be re-supplied. (CM-005, note, written 2026-08-25, published 2026-08-25, markdown: /blog/what-agent-memory-actually-is.md)
- [Do 95% of AI projects actually fail?](/blog/do-95-percent-of-ai-projects-actually-fail): No. The study everyone cites says something much narrower, and four of the field's other most-repeated statistics do not survive contact with their sources either. (CM-001, guide, written 2026-08-19, published 2026-08-19, markdown: /blog/do-95-percent-of-ai-projects-actually-fail.md)