Dhravya Shah is the founder and CEO of Supermemory, which builds memory and context infrastructure for AI applications. His work spans agent memory, developer tools and open-source software. He previously worked on Workers AI and special projects at Cloudflare.[1][2]
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Background
Shah grew up in Mumbai and attended Arizona State University before leaving to build Supermemory. His course reflection describes taking the Grand Challenges Scholars Program’s introductory class and exploring engineering’s social consequences. His portfolio also records cofounding the Devlabs builder community and working at Cloudflare.[1][4]
Contributions
Carry useful context across agent sessions
Supermemory provides memory infrastructure that applications can use to store information and retrieve context for later interactions. Its product site separates individual knowledge workflows from developer infrastructure. Shah’s related projects include Markdowner, for converting websites into model-readable text, and a serverless vector database built with Cloudflare infrastructure.[1][2]
Explore the reverse of a human-verification test
AgentCaptcha is a guestbook experiment that issues a fresh byte-manipulation challenge before accepting a message. It illustrates machine-executable verification under a short deadline. Completing that challenge demonstrates the expected computation, rather than proving a general form of intelligence or the absence of human involvement.[5]
Ideas
In his harness-level essay, Shah compares explicit remember-and-recall tool calls with background observation. He argues that every retrieved fact must compete for context tokens and that retrieval adds latency. The choice depends on whether an agent can afford a longer reasoning loop or must answer a person immediately; storing more is not automatically better.[3]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
Start here
Memory on the harness leveldhravya.devAn illustrated guide to memory storage, retrieval, context budgets and latency tradeoffs in agent harnesses.
Read the explicit and observational memory comparison, then follow where retrieved information enters the context window. Compare token and latency costs for a coding agent versus an interactive assistant.
Author[3]
Tools
- Supermemorysupermemory.ai
Memory and context infrastructure for AI applications and agents.
Apps
- Agent Captchaagent-captcha.dhravya.dev
A reverse-CAPTCHA guestbook experiment using fresh cryptographic and byte-manipulation challenges.
Creator[1][5]Original source