John Rood, Founder of MemoryRouter
Why I built MemoryRouter
MemoryRouter gives you one memory for every AI you use. Instead of each assistant keeping its own siloed memory, MemoryRouter provides a portable, cross-AI memory vault you own and connect to the tools you already work in.
Teach it once, then use ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and OpenClaw without re-explaining who you are or what you are working on. Your memory travels with you, not with a single model vendor.
The company
MemoryRouter is a memory infrastructure company. It builds the layer that lets your context (your role, your projects, your preferences, and the facts you have already explained) live in a vault you control and follow you across every AI assistant you connect.
The core idea is simple: memory should belong to you, not to whichever product you happened to type it into. When memory is portable, switching or combining AI tools stops meaning you start from a blank page every time.
MemoryRouter connects through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and lightweight SDKs, so developers can add persistent, cross-AI memory to their own products. See the MCP integration and the pricing for details.
The founder: John Rood
John Rood is the founder of MemoryRouter. He builds AI products and started MemoryRouter to solve a problem he kept hitting himself: the memory you give one AI assistant stays trapped in that one tool. Every new tool meant re-explaining the same context from scratch.
MemoryRouter is his answer: portable, user-owned memory that works across the AI tools people actually use day to day. He leads product and engineering, and ships the open developer packages that connect MemoryRouter to other tools.
Timeline
- 2023Built VectorVault, a serverless vector database for AI memory.
- 2025One of the earliest contributors to OpenClaw, the open-source agent framework.
- 2026Founded MemoryRouter: portable, user-owned memory that follows you across every AI.
- March 2026Hosted Claw City NYC, an OpenClaw meetup that brought 100+ builders together in Manhattan. Event recap
- April 2026Spoke at Kilo's ClawShop about running day-to-day work on OpenClaw agents. ClawShop recap
The product story
By John Rood, founder of MemoryRouter
MemoryRouter started from a single frustration: memory that was locked inside each AI product. ChatGPT remembered things Claude never would, and vice versa. Moving between tools meant losing the context that made them useful.
So MemoryRouter flips the model. Your memory lives in one vault that you own, and any connected assistant can read and write to it with your approval. Teach it once, and the context shows up everywhere. No vendor lock-in, no re-explaining, no starting over.
Today MemoryRouter connects to ChatGPT, Claude, Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw through MCP, its OpenClaw plugin, and its public SDK. Read more about how MemoryRouter works.
Press and speaking
John speaks about agent infrastructure, durable memory, and running real work on AI agents. Selected coverage and talks:
- Kilo, ClawShop recap: John Rood's sessionApril 2026
- Claw City NYC recapMarch 2026
For interviews, podcasts, or speaking, email [email protected].
Press bio
John Rood is the founder of MemoryRouter, a portable AI memory service that gives people one memory vault across ChatGPT, Claude, Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and other connected AI tools. He leads product and engineering at MemoryRouter.
For company or press inquiries, email [email protected].
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