
SmartPack
Persistent AI assistants, one paste – no more context reset
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Congrats on the launch, looks solid. How are you currently thinking about acquiring early users and gathering feedback?
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@AjayiEbenez
Thanks! Right now everything is manual on purpose — to really validate and feel the friction myself before scaling. All movements (acquisition, feedback, positioning decisions) are directed by one assistant I built in SmartPack itself(say hi). It's my "growth & strategy" brain — I feed it updates and it keeps narrative consistent without resets. Couldn't be any other way haha. in the future, I'll create another dedicated assistant just for managing paid ads decisions (budget allocation, targeting, creative testing, ROI tracking). Once I decide to run any, I'll hand it over to that assistant.Thanks again for the question — love the builder mindset here.
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I love that approach! Feeling the friction manually before scaling is exactly how genuine signals emerge.
If you’re already thinking in systems, especially with your internal assistant tracking narrative consistency—Reddit could actually be treated like a controlled experiment rather than just a platform for engagement. Here’s a potential strategy:
- Define 3–4 categories of pain points.
- Map each category to 2–3 relevant subreddits.
- Create loops involving comments, direct messages (DMs), and follow-up posts.
- Track conversion rates based on intent depth.
- Feed the highest-performing narrative back into your assistant.
This process often shifts Reddit from “manual conversations” to a repeatable inbound engine.
If you're interested in running this as a properly structured experiment instead of relying on ad-hoc testing, that's something I specialize in. I typically execute these validation sprints through Fiverr to keep logistics simple.
It could be interesting to integrate this into your current system and see what insights it produces.
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Wow nice this is fun
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@Orlando
Thanks man!
Glad it feels fun — that's the vibe I was going for. If the "nice" part is the persistence/no-reset thing, give the free tier a quick spin (3 assistants to test). Link's in the post. Let me know if it keeps being fun once you try it.
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This is a really thoughtful post — the “identity + structure” framing resonates.
Curious: now that SmartPack is live, how are you deciding what to build next? Is it mostly user feedback, intuition, or something more structured?
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@Hassan_Cheema
Thanks — glad the "identity + structure" framing landed. SmartPack will always keep redesigning/evolving itself — it basically created itself through iterations, and I just allowed it to happen. As long as I keep using it, it refines its own identity and structure over time. No fixed roadmap; it's alive.Right now I'm juggling several projects at once (some more advanced than others), but SmartPack is must-use in all of them. One of them even turned into a real US product sales business — built entirely in collaboration between me, my partner, and our "3rd CEO": a SmartPack assistant we started with. Over time it spawned dozens more (cloning, updating, splitting tasks, creating specialized guides for EVERY part of the business).It's wild how one persistent identity can birth an entire ecosystem of assistants that guide you through everything.Curious — how do you decide what to build next in your own projects? Feedback loops, intuition, or something else?
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Tired of AI forgetting context every session. Built SmartPack to fix it for myself: persistent assistants pasted once. Even used it to build itself.





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The identity vs prompts framing is one of the sharpest things I've read about AI workflows. The team analogy lands perfectly — you don't re-onboard employees every morning.
What you're building with SmartPack is persistence as a product feature, not a UX nice-to-have. That puts it in a different category than "better prompting tools."
We're running into a related version with AnveVoice — voice interactions are stateless by default, so we've had to build session-aware context on top. The users who stick are the ones where the voice layer starts "knowing" the site's structure and common user intents. Same habit-replacement depth you're describing.
Will check out the Pro layer via the link in your post. Thanks for building in the open — this thread has been genuinely useful.
The context reset problem you describe is genuinely one of the biggest friction points in AI-assisted workflows right now. I run into this constantly — you spend 20 minutes getting an AI assistant calibrated to your exact needs, close the tab, and next session you are starting from zero.
What I find most compelling about your approach is framing it as "identity design" rather than prompt engineering. That distinction matters because prompts are disposable but identities are persistent systems. It mirrors how good teams work — you do not re-explain the company mission every morning, you hire people into defined roles with clear boundaries.
The bootstrapping paradox (building the tool with the tool) is actually strong validation. If your own workflow depended on it before it was a product, that is real dogfooding, not the kind where founders use their product once and call it validated.
@anveoice
thanks for this — you nailed exactly why I framed it as identity instead of prompts.
Prompts are throwaway; identity is the system that doesn't reset when you close the tab. The dogfooding part was accidental at first, but yeah… once I realized the tool was bootstrapping itself, I knew it wasn't just another wrapper. If you're up for testing the Pro layer (where boundaries and pattern detection really lock in), I'd love to hear how it holds up in your workflow. No rush — we're all figuring this out together.
Great post!
@MichaelSmit
thanks man! Means a lot coming from here. If you end up testing the free tier (3 assistants to play with persistence), hit me up with how it feels in your workflow. No pressure, just curious if it clicks for others too.
This is a mind-bending meta-story! 🤯 I love the concept of building the tool with the tool before it even existed. It’s the ultimate "dogfooding" success story.
As a designer currently learning to code with AI (Cursor and Claude) to build SaaSurfer, I relate to this 100%. I'd love to see how a SmartPack-designed assistant would handle a "Demand Validation" role. Does the system allow for assistants to "talk" to each other, or are they mostly siloed specialists? 🏄♂️
@Ayesha
thanks — the meta-loop was accidental but once it started bootstrapping itself, it felt like the ultimate validation signal. love that you're building SaaSurfer with Cursor + Claude — we're in the same grind.SmartPack keeps assistants siloed by design (each lives in its own chat/session in any LLM, so no native inter-communication). But that's the real power: you become the messenger/orchestrator.
Swap messages or outputs between chats
Clone an assistant and feed it history/knowledge from previous ones
After some time, extract summary/history from two chats and create a fresh assistant with combined knowledge + updated role/objective/skills/boundaries
Maximum creativity: it's a system of specialists you remix freely, fully customizable per user. For a "Demand Validation" role it shines — fixed ruthless critic with priorities on pain/market/falsifiability that never forgets the lens. FREE tier has 3 slots to play right away. If you want the prompt blueprint I use for validation assistants (or how I chain them), just say the word. We're all hacking our own leverage with AI — let's see what sticks for SaaSurfer!
The "identity over prompting" framing is spot on. I've been building dev tools and the biggest lesson has been the same — the problem isn't capability, it's consistency. Every time you start from scratch, you lose the accumulated decisions that actually matter.
What's interesting is this applies beyond AI assistants too. I see the same pattern in developer workflows: teams rebuild context every time they switch between audit tools, doc generators, CI checks. The real value is in the persistent structure, not the individual action.
Curious about your Free/Pro/Infinity tier split — how did you decide where the line is between "try it" and "use it seriously"? That's always the hardest decision with dev tools. Too generous on free and nobody upgrades, too restrictive and nobody tries it.
@anveoice
Spot on — the identity vs prompting distinction is everything. Consistency is the real bottleneck, not raw capability. And yeah, the same pattern shows up in dev workflows too. Super sharp observation. as you probably guessed, I actually built a dedicated “Pricing Strategy” assistant inside SmartPack just for this.
Fed it a ton of context: historical pricing data from similar tools, symbolic value, perceived vs real value, acceptable price thresholds, competitor benchmarks, bootstrap reality, and long-term retention psychology.The Free/Pro/Infinity split came directly from what that assistant recommended after many iterations. The goal was: generous enough that serious people feel the difference immediately, but not so generous that Pro feels unnecessary.Would love to hear your take on where the line should be — always refining this.If you want to see the exact pricing assistant blueprint I used (or test it yourself), just say the word, i recommend you to create your own assistant tailored at your needs, not at my needs, if you get what i mean.
This is interesting, especially the shift from “prompting” to designing identity-based assistants.
One thing I’ve noticed while mapping early SaaS demand is that tools built from personal friction tend to hit hardest when that friction is shared but invisible.
Curious, have you mapped where the strongest demand signals are forming around structured AI workflows right now? The positioning angle could matter a lot depending on which segment feels the “chaos” most.
Would love to hear what you’re seeing.
@aryamnk
Thanks — really sharp take on the invisible friction becoming shared demand.From what I’m seeing, the strongest chaos right now is scattered across segments:
Indie builders doing long iterative work (coding agents, content systems, validation loops)
Early SaaS founders mapping demand/strategy (context loss kills momentum fast)
Researchers & writers who need persistent thinking partners
Dev teams jumping between tools (each switch = full context rebuild)
The real unlock isn’t just better prompts — it’s treating them as identities, not disposable task bots. Once you start designing identities with creativity (role, boundaries, values, evolution rules), your whole relationship with AI changes. You get better at shaping them → they get better at helping you → you shape even better ones. It becomes a true virtuous circle, activated in any LLM.That’s the part that surprised me most.If you expand the creativity when designing your assistants, you can basically get whatever result profile you want. The tool just gives you the structure to make that flywheel real.Curious what kind of identity you’d build first for your workflow.
Love that framing..especially the shift from disposable prompts to designed identities. That’s how I think about it at Genesis too: instead of task bots, I’d build a “Demand Cartographer” identity that continuously tracks signal clusters and evolving intent so context compounds over time. Once the assistant has a defined role and memory, it becomes leverage, not just output.
This feels like something worth unpacking properly.. would you be open to a 20-min call this week to explore how these identity-based systems could actually compound inside real workflows? I think there’s something strong here.
This resonates a lot with me.
I’m an indie iOS developer and photographer, and I used ChatGPT in a very similar way while building my app SunPath — a sunlight planning tool.
At first, I was just asking questions. But the real shift happened when I started treating it like specialized roles: UI designer, Swift engineer, product strategist, and even App Store positioning advisor.
Each role had its own context and constraints.
It stopped being “ask and hope” and became “design and execute.”
What surprised me most wasn’t just the speed — it was the consistency. It allowed me to build things that would have taken months otherwise.
Curious: did you find that defining strict constraints improved output quality more than defining capabilities?
@SergioX3
Thanks man, really glad it resonates — your shift from “ask and hope” to specialized roles is exactly the transition I was chasing too. Building SunPath sounds like a perfect use case.Yes — defining strict constraints improved output quality way more than just listing capabilities. In SmartPack, the “Important Detailed Features” section (check the tooltip) is where the magic happens. It’s the best place to give the assistant deep identity: both positive context (what it should do, values, style) and negative context (what it must never do, hard limits, anti-patterns, axioms). Being brutally honest when writing those limits makes a massive difference.Some identities work better when they’re highly creative, others shine when they’re almost monotonous and disciplined — depends on the role.There’s also a short video tutorial inside the app that explains “Skills” and “IDF” (Important Detailed Features/Identity Definition Framework) and how to use them optimally, especially when you’re still building your own method.Would love to hear how it feels if you test it with your iOS/product roles. No pressure, just curious.If you want, I can send you the exact prompt structure I use for dev roles, but its best for you to create your own at your own size.
What stands out to me isn’t the persistence > it’s the identity layer.
Most funded teams I work with don’t have a context problem. They have a narrative problem. There’s nothing stable to persist.
Persistent assistants are powerful but if the underlying decision logic isn’t clear, you just scale confusion faster.
The commercial unlock for you won’t be productivity. It’ll be decision confidence.
If SmartPack helps someone think and decide better not just output more that’s infrastructure.
That’s the wedge I’d lean into.
@SonuGoswami
This is exactly it.The deepest unlock isn’t persistence — it’s narrative infrastructure. Most teams don’t have a context problem, they have a story problem. Nothing stable to persist.And here’s where it gets interesting:Imagine every member of a team quietly improving their own internal narrative, iteration after iteration, while executing at high speed. No longer “work on the project OR work on myself” — both happen simultaneously, passively, automatically. you deregulate cognitive friction at the identity level without anyone forcing or managing anyone else. Just by working. The assistants become mirrors that gently remove the self-imposed barriers life stacked on us.A boss will never say “resolve your traumas or integrate your shadow to be more effective.”
SmartPack does it in the background, especially when you run it as a true system of multiple specialized identities instead of one generalist.Infinity is the layer where those deeper mental barriers actually start dissolving.That’s the real flywheel.What you’re describing is why I built it this way.Curious — have you seen this kind of narrative deregulation happening in any of the teams you work with?
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@VitaliiVelehan
Дякую! Радий, що зацікавило Якщо цікаво подивитись як це працює на практиці (без ресетів контексту та дрифту), лінк є в оригінальному пості. Free tier дає 3 асистента для тесту. Розкажи, якщо відгукнеться або здасться чимось незвичайним.
Interesting pivot. I’ve been thinking about the same thing — AI infra is becoming cheap and commoditized fast. The real moat might not be access anymore, but distribution and positioning.
Curious — are you worried about support overhead with self-hosted users? That’s usually where ownership models get tricky.
@GissurPorRunarsson Spot on — AI infra is commoditizing insanely fast. Access is already table stakes; the real moat is shifting to distribution, positioning, and narrative ownership.On self-hosted users: support overhead stays minimal. SmartPack is pure prompt blueprint — no backend, no hosting, no API calls on our side. Users copy-paste the activator prompt into whatever LLM they run (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, local Llama, Mistral, whatever). If something "fails" in output, it's almost always:
restrictive policies of that specific LLM
or simply the path the user is on (maybe not the right moment, wrong identity design, or they need to iterate more)
We only handle support for account/access issues or bugs inside our domain (landing, prompt generation, billing). Everything after the copy-paste is on the user's LLM runtime — which is actually a feature: the more personalized/custom/self-hosted their setup gets, the more value SmartPack unlocks, because there's more raw material to shape richer, more stable identities.While better LLMs keep coming, SmartPack just scales with them automatically.I think intelligence isn't your raw IQ or intellectual capacity — it's what you decide to do with whatever God or the universe gave you. SmartPack amplifies total intelligence between human-AI, letting you max out the use of your own capacities and tools at your unique pace and sequence. No forced speed, no generic path — your rhythm, your narrative.Curious — what positioning moat do you see holding up longest in this commoditized infra world? Narrative? Distribution? Something else?(Thanks for the sharp take — love when someone spots the infra → positioning shift this cleanly.)
Exactly where my head is at. You’re solving the internal identity problem — how you show up consistently inside AI sessions. I’ve been working on the external version of the same problem — how AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini represent your product to buyers when you’re not in the room.
Most founders have no idea what these systems say about them. I built Bersyn to measure that gap, score it, and generate content to close it. Same thesis as SmartPack — identity and structure matter — but on the outbound, observable side.
Running a paid beta with 10 spots right now. Given this conversation I think you’d find it interesting — want in?
the context reset problem is real. been rebuilding the same instructions every session for months. building the tool with the tool before it exists is wild tho
@TomásMartínez Exactly, rebuilding instructions every session is exhausting — months of that tax adds up fast.The meta part wasn't me "building the tool with the tool before it existed" — it was the tool gradually emerging through iterations. I was basically the intermediary because the LLM itself couldn't physically do it alone.For that exact pain (long-term consistency without constant rebuilds), Pro is ideal right now.
Free is too limited for serious long sessions.
Infinity is overkill unless you're already deep into narrative/identity work. Pro gives you enough depth to feel the difference immediately.If you're up for it, start by clicking the link in my profile. (pro tier today is where that reset frustration actually disappears.)Let me know if it clicks for your workflow.
This is super interesting, especially how you turned “friction with AI” into a whole operating system of assistants.
I’d love to get early access and go deeper, especially on how you handle evolving context over time. One thing I’ve noticed with new tools is that as workflows and docs get updated, the original “source of truth” often drifts or fragments. That’s actually a big problem tools like Context 7 are trying to solve on the documentation side.
Curious if you’re thinking about (or open to) integrating something similar, e.g., a way for SmartPack assistants to stay in sync with living docs / changing knowledge bases, so the assistant’s identity + context don’t silently become stale over weeks and months. That feels like it could make persistent assistants even more powerful.
@KushalAgrawal
Thanks — glad it resonates. Turning "AI friction" into a full system of persistent assistants was the whole point you're spot on with the evolving context issue — "source of truth" drift over time is brutal, especially when docs/workflows change. Tools like Context 7 are tackling it on the doc side, and it's a real gap.SmartPack doesn't have native sync with living docs yet (it's pure prompt-based, no external memory or file watchers), but because it's identity-focused, you can manually refresh it: extract updated knowledge/summary from docs, clone the assistant, feed the new context + tweak boundaries/priorities. It's manual orchestration, but it keeps the identity alive without silent staleness.For now, start slow to really feel the shift:
Free tier (3 assistants) is enough to test the core persistence and see if it clicks in your workflow.
If you hit the limit fast (sounds like you might, given your depth), Pro is the sweet spot right now — more depth, no frustration on longer sessions.
By what you're describing (deep thinking on evolving context, source of truth, long-term power), you're headed straight to Infinity power user territory in the long run — that's where the narrative/identity evolution gets really interesting.
No rush — feel the change step by step. Link is in the post if you want to try.
how it feels if you test it on your workflows.
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@Conradx
Hi! Thanks for dropping in
If the post hit you, feel free to check the link in the original — free tier has 3 assistants to test persistence without any commitment. Let me know if anything clicks or feels off.
This resonates a lot.
The biggest shift for me with AI wasn’t better prompts — it was giving the assistant a clear role and constraints. Once I started treating it like a system instead of a chat, output quality improved fast.
Love that you built the product using the product itself. That’s usually a strong signal of real need. Curious how you prevent assistant sprawl over time — do you prune/merge roles as things evolve?
@BhavinAllInOneTools Thanks — spot on. The shift from "better prompts" to "clear role + constraints" is huge. Treating it as a system instead of a chat changes output quality overnight.On preventing assistant sprawl over time:
SmartPack has a cloning feature built-in. You can clone an assistant to keep it fresh — same core identity, but without the accumulated context weight (so it doesn't slow down or get bloated). You can also merge assistants (combine two into one, fusing knowledge/history/priorities) or split them further (divide work into more specialized identities). The customization possibilities are almost limitless — it really goes as far as the user's creativity and imagination. As you master AI and this "strange system" of assistants, it lowers mental barriers, preconcepts, and biases, expanding how you approach projects or goals.The core information (project mission, central context, values) passes from generation to generation of assistants — reducing "broken telephone" risk to almost zero. Ironic, but I literally couldn't have built SmartPack without SmartPack doing most of the heavy lifting haha.Curious — how do you currently handle sprawl in your own assistants? Do you prune/merge manually or have a different ritual?