Your AI Should Move With You, Not Trap You
A startup idea I am putting out into the open
Most people now use more than one AI tool. In a normal working week you might think in ChatGPT, write in Copilot, create visuals in Gemini, and research somewhere else. That behaviour is already standard.
What is not standard, or sensible, is that every AI tool treats you like a different person.
Each platform forgets how you work.
Each one traps your thinking inside its own system.
Each one forces you to start again or duplicate your details.
That is not a user problem. It is a design gap. And it points to a solid startup opportunity.
The problem worth solving
AI users are building real value inside tools that are not designed to let that value travel.
Chats contain reasoning, decisions, and learning.
ChatGPT Projects and Copilot Notebooks contain objectives and reference material.
Custom instructions define how someone works, writes, and how they want their AI tool to respond.
All of this is locked inside individual platforms.
If you move tools, you lose continuity. If you use several tools, you repeat yourself. If you stop using one, you leave part of your working memory behind.
For small business owners, consultants, and independent professionals, that is not a minor irritation. It is lost time and broken flow.
Introducing the Portable AI Profile
The core idea is simple.
Instead of your AI identity being owned by individual platforms, you have a Portable AI Profile (PAP) that belongs to you.
That profile would act as a personal AI passport and could include:
Your personal and business details
Your working style and preferences
Your tone, language, and formatting rules
Your active projects and goals
Your historical chats and reasoning trails
Any AI tool you connect to would read from that profile and adapt instantly.
No re-prompting.
No rewriting instructions.
No starting from scratch.
From a startup perspective, this is not about building a new AI assistant. It is about building the missing layer that sits above existing AI tools.
Why Portable AI Profiles make commercial sense
Most AI platforms are focused on features and performance inside their own ecosystem. Very few are focused on continuity across tools.
That leaves space for a neutral layer that works with multiple providers.
A startup built around Portable AI Profiles would act as:
An identity layer for AI usage
A memory and context broker
A user-controlled profile and project hub
It would not compete directly with ChatGPT, Copilot, or others. Instead, it would make them more useful by giving them immediate context about the person using them.
Think of it as a souped up single sign-on, but for how you think and work with AI.
Projects and Notebooks as portable assets
One of the strongest parts of this idea is workspace portability.
Today, a ChatGPT Project or a Copilot Notebook is effectively stuck where it was created. You can export text, but you lose structure, files, website links, intent, and continuity.
A Portable AI Profile could support a standard workspace format that includes:
The purpose of the project
Key conversations and decisions
Supporting documents, notes and web pages
Constraints, rules, and assumptions
Current status and next steps
When that workspace or project is opened in another AI tool, the context is restored. The AI understands what the project is and where it stands.
That turns AI work into something durable and reusable, rather than disposable chat history.
Custom instructions as identity, not settings
Custom instructions are one of the most valuable but poorly handled parts of AI usage.
They define things like:
Writing style
Level of detail
Evidence tables
AI tool’s response
Business context
At the moment, they are treated as optional settings and locked into individual tools.
In a Portable AI Profile model, instructions are central. You define them once, update them deliberately, and apply them everywhere which would greatly increase the quality of response of whichever AI tool you were using.
From a business point of view, this creates user freedom while still supporting sustainable revenue around the profile itself.
Trust and ownership are non-negotiable
For this idea to work, trust has to be designed in.
A Portable AI Profile must:
Be owned by the user, always
Be exportable and deletable
Allow granular permissions per AI tool
Be clear about what data is shared and when
In the UK and EU, this aligns well with GDPR and data protection expectations. Framed correctly, this is not a risk, it is a selling point.
Revenue models that fit the idea
There are sensible ways to monetise this without abusing user data:
Subscriptions for professionals
Paid integrations for AI platforms
White-label versions that can be used in AI training
As AI becomes embedded in daily work, continuity becomes more valuable, not less.
Why I am putting this idea out there
I am not building this myself.
I am putting the idea of Portable AI Profiles into the open for anyone who wants to pick it up, challenge it, or turn it into something real, as it’s a win for AI tools and users and a great business opportunity.
If you are a founder, developer, product thinker, or investor and this resonates, I would love to talk it through with you.
If that is a problem you want to solve, get in touch and let’s discuss it.
