AIVM Brain connects to the Claude desktop app over MCP and acts as its second brain: your notes, decisions, docs, and team knowledge, retrievable in chat with permissions enforced. Follow the current connection instructions in your workspace. It is not Anthropic's built-in memory; it is governed memory you own, shared across every agent you run.
How do you connect Claude Desktop?
Connect Claude Desktop using the current setup instructions inside your AIVM Brain workspace. Public access currently starts with the waitlist.
Get workspace access. Join the waitlist with your work email and confirm your email. If you already have access, log in to your workspace.
Follow the in-app setup for Claude Desktop. Use the current connection instructions provided in your workspace for Claude Desktop. Follow the access scope assigned to your agent.
Check access and retrieval. Ask Claude Desktop a question about an approved source and check its citation. Also test a restricted source to confirm that the agent cannot retrieve content outside its permissions.
Not the same thing as Claude's built-in memory
Anthropic ships memory features for Claude, and they are genuinely useful: Claude keeps notes about you and your preferences inside Anthropic's product. This is different infrastructure. Your brain lives outside any one vendor's app, under your tenant, with your access rules. Claude connects to it the same way Codex or Cursor or a custom agent does, so the knowledge is not locked to one assistant.
That distinction matters the day you switch tools, add a second agent, or need to answer a security review. Built-in memory is a feature of the app. A brain is an asset you own.
From chat companion to company brain
Solo, the brain makes Claude a research partner that actually accumulates: every project brief, meeting note, and decision you feed it becomes recallable context. On a team, it becomes the shared source of truth Claude answers from, with each person's recall filtered by role. The finance analyst's Claude sees the model. The contractor's Claude does not. Every access lands in a tamper-evident log you can hand to security.