Hi, I'm Souvik, I run an independent AI companion review site.

Three things I genuinely did not expect to find:

Memory is mostly fake

Most platforms market "persistent memory" but context resets when you close the browser. I planted 10 specific details in week one and checked what each platform recalled at day 30. Most got 3 or 4 right. One got all 10. That platform is also one of the cheapest. The expensive ones were not the ones with better memory.