---
id: "action-run-memory-migration"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["00:22:18"]
tags: ["onboarding", "data-extraction"]
related: ["framework-open-brain-prompt-kits"]
action: "Prompt existing AI tools to summarize your context and save it to the Open Brain."
outcome: "Immediate population of the Open Brain with historical context."
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s22-saas-replacement"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s22-saas-replacement"
originDay: 22
---
# Execute a Memory Migration prompt

## Action

When first standing up the [[concept-open-brain-d22]], run the **Memory Migration** prompt (one of the four in [[framework-open-brain-prompt-kits]]) inside each existing AI tool you've been using — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.

Ask each model to extract and summarize everything it currently knows about you, your projects, your preferences, your stylistic tendencies, your current constraints. Then dump that output into your new Open Brain database.

## Why

This solves the cold-start problem. Without it, your shiny new Open Brain has zero history and you spend weeks re-typing context. With it, you immediately recover the context that was previously trapped in proprietary silos (see [[concept-memory-silo-problem]]).

It is the single highest-ROI action in the talk: a one-time effort that compounds for the rest of the system's lifespan.

## Outcome

Immediate population of the Open Brain with historical context, ready for [[concept-semantic-search]] from day one.