Memory in conversational AI
Conversational AI remembers relevant context from your past conversations and applies it in future sessions—so you don't have to re-introduce an asset or repeat yourself every time you open a new chat.
What conversational AI remembers
- Assets and topics you've discussed: If you ask about a table, dashboard, or other asset in one conversation, conversational AI remembers that context and can reference it again in a later session—for example, asking a follow-up about the same asset days later without re-explaining which one you mean.
- Corrections: If you correct a response—for example, pointing out the wrong owner or a stale definition for an asset—conversational AI applies that correction in later conversations instead of repeating the same mistake.
- Preferences: Stated preferences for how you like answers—for example, which connectors or schemas you care about—are reused automatically.
Memory is personal to you. What conversational AI remembers from your conversations isn't visible to, or reused for, other users in your organization.
Where memory works
Memory currently applies to conversational AI inside the Atlan app. It doesn't yet extend to Slack, Microsoft Teams, or the browser extension integrations—see Use conversational AI in your tools for where each of those surfaces stands.
How it works
During a conversation, conversational AI checks what it has learned about you from prior sessions and factors it into the response—alongside your catalog's metadata, lineage, and glossary context. You don't need to opt in or configure anything; this happens automatically as part of every conversation.
For example, if you ask about the customer_orders table in one session, then start a new conversation later, conversational AI already has that context and can pick up where you left off.
Manage what conversational AI remembers
There's no separate settings screen for memory today. To remove something conversational AI has remembered, ask it directly in chat—for example, "Forget that I asked about the customer_orders table." Conversational AI updates what it retains going forward.
Privacy and data handling
Conversational AI applies a filter before anything is stored as memory:
- Never stored: Sensitive personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, government IDs, credit card numbers, and API keys or passwords is automatically discarded—even if you explicitly ask conversational AI to remember it.
- Stored when relevant: Work context such as your role, team, project names, or customer/account names you mention is retained, since it's what makes personalization useful.
For details on how conversational AI's data is encrypted, isolated per tenant, and retained, see Atlan AI security.