Your private career evidence system
Your best work is fading from memory.
Capture what happened in 30 seconds. WorkMemoir turns it into evidence you can use in reviews, 1:1s, promotions, and interviews.
Private by default · You control what you share · No employer access
The problem
You did the work. Where’s the receipt?
Careers are judged on what’s remembered — not what happened. And what’s remembered is embarrassingly little.
Memory keeps the last few weeks
By review season, March's firefight is a blur. Your manager remembers even less. Recency writes your review — unless you do.
Self-reviews get panic-written
11pm the night before the deadline, and you're listing duties instead of impact. The work deserved better.
The 1:1 blank stare
“So… what should we talk about?” — in a week where you shipped three real wins and unblocked two people.
The honest part
Everyone means to keep a brag document. Nobody keeps it up.
Here’s why — and what a memoir changes.
“I don't have time to journal.”
Thirty seconds. Two sentences or a voice note. AI does the structuring — you just dump.
“I don't know what's worth saving.”
Weekly prompts ask the right questions, and distillation pulls out the metrics and skills for you.
“Bragging about myself feels gross.”
A memoir isn't bragging. It's private, factual record-keeping. Bragging is optional — remembering isn't.
“I'll remember it when it matters.”
You won't. That's not a discipline problem, it's how memory works. Systems beat intentions.
From messy memory to career evidence
You write the messy part. WorkMemoir does the organizing.
One raw note becomes structured evidence — and every payoff you’ll need later.
Raw memo
Spent most of Tuesday fixing the checkout reporting issue. Finance was getting different revenue numbers from the dashboard. Found an old timezone transformation, fixed it and backfilled 3 months. Sarah said this saved the team from manually reconciling the weekly report.
30 seconds, typed or spoken.
distill
Structured evidence
Situation
Finance and analytics dashboards disagreed on revenue.
Action
Identified a timezone transformation bug; corrected it; backfilled 3 months.
Impact
Removed recurring manual reconciliation.
Feedback
Positive feedback from Finance (Sarah).
Skills
Root-cause analysis, data quality, stakeholder management.
Metric
3 months backfilled.
Resolved a recurring revenue-reporting discrepancy by tracing it to a timezone transformation bug, correcting the logic, and backfilling three months of data. Finance now receives consistent numbers without manual reconciliation.
How it works
Capture. Distill. Use.
CAPTURED
Capture
A win, an incident, a lesson, some feedback — write it like you'd tell a friend, or say it out loud. Thirty seconds, done.
INKED
Automatically organised
AI inks your scribbles into structured entries — situation, impact, metrics, skills, and a STAR story ready to retell.
READY
Ready when needed
Review packets, 1:1 agendas, interview answers, and stage talking points — generated from your entries the moment you need them.
INTEGRATIONS
Ask your memoir from the chat you already have open or the tools you already work in.
WorkMemoir speaks MCP — the open standard Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and your code editor use to reach tools you trust. Capture runs the other way too: Slack, GitHub and Linear bring in the work you would rather not write up. Connect once, then just ask.
Ask — over MCP
From the chat you already have open
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- VS Code
- any MCP client
Any MCP-capable client connects over the same standard OAuth flow.
Connector setup guideCapture — from your tools
So the memoir stays current
Slack
capture wins + get your weekly nudge
GitHub
import merged pull requests
Linear
import completed issues
Coming soon
- Google Calendar
- Notion
- Jira
- Microsoft Teams
The payoff
One memoir. Five payoffs.
Capture it once. Reuse it every time your career needs evidence.
One work memory
Performance Review1:1InterviewPromotionSkills
Flagship
Chapter Review
Walk into your performance review with a drafted self-assessment — every claim linked to a dated entry.
1:1 Agendas
Your week, already summarized. Raise wins, blockers, and decisions while they're still fresh.
Gap Analysis
See which competencies have strong evidence and which are thin — before your manager points it out.
Interview Stories
Every behavioral question mapped to a real story from your memoir. STAR, on tap.
Weekly Recap
Your week, distilled: wins, blockers, decisions, and lessons, ready before your next 1:1.
“Remember when you…?”
Your memoir does. Every time.
Inside WorkMemoir
Your memoir, beautifully organized.
Real screens, synthetic data — so you can see exactly what you’ll get.
Win
Shipped the pricing-page experiment — signups up 12%.
Aug 18
Feedback
Sarah: "the backfill explanation was exactly what Finance needed."
Aug 15
Decision
Paused the new onboarding flow until the import bug is fixed.
Aug 11
Private by default
Your conflicts, mistakes, and unvarnished wins stay yours.
A memoir only works if you can be honest in it. So honesty is protected by design.
Yours alone
Your entries are visible to you and no one else — not employers, not other users.
Portable
Export everything, anytime. Delete everything, anytime. No lock-in, no hostage-taking.
No AI training on your data
Your career data isn’t used to train OpenAI models.
Capture is free. Intelligence is Pro.
Fill your memoir for free, forever. Upgrade when it starts paying for itself — usually the night before your review.
See pricingExample outcomes
What a memoir can do for you
Illustrative examples of the kind of outcome WorkMemoir is designed to produce.
“WorkMemoir turns scattered notes about what I worked on into something I can actually use. Instead of reconstructing months of work before a review, everything is already organized around outcomes and impact.”
“The biggest value for me is remembering the small wins I would normally forget. By the time a performance review comes around, I have evidence instead of trying to remember what happened six months ago.”
“Interview preparation became much easier once I could turn real projects into structured STAR stories. I spend less time inventing examples and more time deciding which experience best answers the question.”
Privacy by design
Your career belongs to you
- No employer workspace
- No company admin access
- Your data isn't used to train OpenAI models
- Export your data anytime
- Delete your account and career data
- Private storage — encrypted in transit and at rest
- Clear subprocessor disclosure
Start remembering. Free.
Your future self — the one sitting in the review meeting — says thanks.
Start your memoirGot Questions?
WorkMemoir is listening!
Whether you want help with your memoir, have a feature request, or just want to say hi to the capybara — we’re all ears (and they are cute ears).
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