Agent Memory

1. Three-Tiered Memory Architecture

a. Short-Term Memory (Session or Campaign-level)

  • Stores recent user actions (e.g., "clicked last email", "ignored upsell offer").

  • Lives for the current session or short lifecycle context (e.g., 7–14 days).

  • Enables reactive personalization (e.g., don’t re-offer something just clicked).

Example: Churn agent recalls that the user clicked "cancel reasons" → triggers a save offer, not generic re-engagement.

b. Long-Term Memory (User-level + Segment-level)

  • Captures patterns across lifecycle stages: onboarding, activation, conversion, churn.

  • Includes vectorized summaries of:

  • Past interactions

  • Channel preferences

  • Campaign responses

  • Agent actions + outcomes

Stored in a Vector DB (e.g., Weaviate or Pinecone) using user embeddings or segment-level embeddings for fast semantic retrieval.

Example: For a mid-funnel B2B user, the agent recalls that whitepapers → demo → closed won is a high-conversion path and prioritizes this path again.

c. Global Memory (Agent + Team-level)

  • Shared knowledge across all agents and customers (pseudonymized).

  • Stores best-performing prompts, subject lines, CTAs, channel combos.

  • Updated with reward signals (e.g., lift in conversions, reduced drop-offs).

This enables self-improvement and cross-agent knowledge sharing (e.g., churn prevention agent learns from upsell agent’s success).

2. How Memory Is Queried

Agents use memory via:

  • Embedding-based retrieval (vector similarity)

  • Metadata filtering (e.g., campaign type = “churn save”)

  • Time decay logic to prioritize fresh interactions

Often wrapped in a Retriever module inside LangChain / LangGraph agent flows.

3. What Gets Stored

  • User & segment interaction logs

  • Campaign variants tried

  • Reasoning steps (in CoT, ReAct form)

  • Final outcomes (clicks, conversions, revenue delta)

  • Feedback from marketers (human-in-the-loop scoring)

4. Memory Refresh & Pruning

  • Low-signal events decay over time

  • Abandoned flows are eventually purged

  • Only high-relevance, high-reward outcomes are retained long-term

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