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How It Works

BaseLayer turns your AI conversations into a searchable knowledge graph through three stages: Capture, Dream, and Recall.

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Capture

BaseLayer watches your AI conversations as they happen. Browser extension: Chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other web-based AI? The Chrome extension detects it and sends the conversation to your local vault. IDE watchers: The desktop app monitors coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and Aider. It picks up conversations automatically. No plugins needed. All captured data is encrypted on your device before being stored. Nothing leaves your machine in plaintext.

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Dream

This is where raw conversations become structured knowledge. After a conversation is captured, BaseLayer’s dream engine runs in the background. It reads through what was discussed and extracts:
  • People: colleagues, contacts, anyone mentioned by name
  • Projects: codebases, products, initiatives you’re working on
  • Concepts: technologies, frameworks, ideas, decisions
  • Relationships: how all of the above connect to each other
For example, if you told Claude: “I’m working with Sarah on the payments migration to Stripe”, BaseLayer would extract:
  • A person named Sarah
  • A project called payments migration
  • A technology reference to Stripe
  • Relationships linking them together
The dream engine runs in the background, processing new conversations and refining existing knowledge. Over time, you’ll build a rich graph of everything you’ve discussed across all your AI tools.
”Dreaming” is our term for the background knowledge extraction process. It happens automatically; you don’t need to do anything.

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Recall

Any MCP-connected AI can search your knowledge vault. When you connect BaseLayer to Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI tool via MCP (Model Context Protocol), that AI gains access to seven tools:
ToolWhat it does
recallSearch your vault for relevant knowledge
rememberStore new information
recentLoad recent conversation context
relateExplore connections between entities
inspectGet detailed info about a specific entity
statusCheck your vault’s health and stats
forgetRemove knowledge you no longer need
The most common flow: your AI calls recent at the start of a conversation to load context, then uses recall whenever it needs specific knowledge from your vault.

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The result

Instead of starting every conversation from scratch, your AI already knows:
  • What you’ve been working on
  • Who you work with
  • What decisions you’ve made
  • What you’ve tried before
Your knowledge compounds across every AI tool you use. A conversation in ChatGPT becomes context available in Claude. A decision made in Cursor is remembered in Gemini. One vault. Every AI. All your knowledge.