20 years delivering at scale. Ex-Walmart, publicly traded consumer finance. Now building the memory layer that makes Claude actually useful.
John Whitman builds persistent AI memory systems for executives who are tired of re-explaining their context every session. He spent two decades delivering large-scale technology projects — Walmart's associate systems, a $19M claims recovery at a publicly traded company, the first Product Management organization at a Fortune 500 consumer finance firm. In 2026 he turned that discipline toward AI infrastructure and built Maren, his own autonomous memory compound. Mnemo is the distilled, packaged version of that system.
The site exists because the same problem keeps showing up: senior leaders have the budget and the need, but no one is selling them a local, owned, working memory layer. Cloud memory services store their data on someone else's servers. One-off scripts break when the laptop changes. Mnemo gives them a complete, portable, local system they can run forever without a subscription or a vendor relationship.
He lives in Noel, Missouri on the Elk River. Remote only. He takes on a small number of installs per month and maintains a waitlist for ongoing memory work.