kanyesrthaker
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There is also a capture problem. Imagine you hire an intern and you tell them "John Smith is the CEO of Foo". If they've never heard of Foo, it would be impossible to infer anything about the nature of Foo, unless they're allowed to look into the outside world. No system (even humans!) can capture 100% of information, but that doesn't mean the system is broken. The question is, can you organize and collect enough information to be able to (a) address most queries and (b) initiate deeper investigation if the information is incomplete? We believe the answer is yes.
Intent is very much the same way. Will hybrid search uncover your architecture notes at some point, for an unrelated reason? Almost certainly. Should there be enough surrounding context to indicate that this was written for a spike? Also yes (this is where Claude/markdown memories fail). It should be enough to still be (net) massively useful, and the error rate will go down over time.
And re: the graph -- Postgres stays king here. There are a lot of fancy database mechanisms for building systems like this, but the convenience of a SQL data structure that can tie the graph into structured metadata is pretty unbeatable. This may evolve with time as well.
The main thing we see in the world is that (a) teams already struggle to coordinate information over many different personalities and data sources. This was a more dull problem before when the actual IC/execution overhead was so large. But now with AI the execution overhead is way smaller, and "being on the same page" is a much bigger problem. (b) As agents do more and more of the mechanical work in the company, it's vital that they have a consistent big picture-view to perform tasks efficiently without errors.
Hyper aims to solve this problem end-to-end; the memory system is a vital part of this, but Hyper does more. We already support native agentic email-writing and LinkedIn-drafting automations, and will be expanding on that front. Today it's a "brain that knows everything," but so much of the value is in using that brain to perform work in a self-improving way. And on the other side, we need to make sure that getting information into the system is as frictionless as possible. We care a ton about UX -- one-click integrations, using hooks to get context in and out invisibly and reliably.
Right now our measurements are primarily subjective; we have several customers tell us "Hyper let my agent draft outbound/do market research/run experiments overnight with no intervention or follow-ups, when I would have to constantly babysit it in the past." We have also run Hyper's algorithms on common benchmarks versus more traditional methods. I don't want to claim numbers before we've verified them, but Hyper performs significantly better.
We do not use RAG in the traditional sense (semantic similarity across chunked source documents). We use hybrid retrieval methods to fetch relevant information across our carefully designed knowledge graph, and then have shallow agents consolidate retrieved information into a format that the invoking agent can understand.