Engram Labs · Est. 2026 · Memory for machines

Expanding
what's possible
for machines that remember.

An independent research lab building the memory substrate for agents. Systems that retain facts, reason over time, and compound knowledge across tasks, sessions, and lifetimes.

 
 
 
 
 
 
01 — About the lab

A lab for the memory layer of intelligence.

Today's models are brilliant amnesiacs. They reason elegantly in a window, then forget.

Engram Labs was founded on a thesis: the next decade of AI will not be won by larger context windows, but by durable, structured memory — the capacity to encode experience, retrieve it under pressure, and let knowledge compound across agents, tools, and time.

We build the primitives: retrieval architectures that learn, consolidation schedules modeled on neural replay, and memory graphs that agents can write to, prune, and trust. Our research ships as open models, as an infrastructure layer for enterprise, and as a small number of applied partnerships with teams building the frontier.

02 — Our Values
We believe intelligence
without memory is a parlor trick.
Remembering is the frontier.
§ 01

Your Data Always.

We believe data privacy isn't a nice to have, it is a non-negotiable. No loopholes. No tricks. No gimmicks.

§ 02

Small teams, long horizons

Ten to twelve researchers. Three-year bets. No roadmap theatre. No scale for its own sake.

§ 03

Memory is safety

What a system remembers is what it becomes. Provenance, erasure, and audit are first-class.

§ 04

Ship the substrate

We build the layer others build on. We measure ourselves by what becomes possible because of us.

03 — Team

Researchers, engineers, operators.

Twelve people. Deep roots in memory-augmented networks, systems infrastructure, and applied alignment.

MR
Alex Fries

Founder · CEO

JS
Jiro Sato

Co-founder · CE

AK
Ada Khoury

Head of Research

LT
Leon Traoré

Head of Infrastructure

04 — Find out more

Let's talk about memory.

For investors, enterprise partners, and researchers who want to go deeper — reach out. We read everything.