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Monday · March 23, 2026 · Issue #001

The Promptory is officially live — 110 hand-curated AI tools across 20 categories, with Jordan, an AI concierge who finds the right tool for your workflow. No ads. No pay-to-rank. Just tools that earned their place.

Here's what happened in AI last week that you need to know:

⚡ This Week in AI

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OpenAI rolls out persistent memory in ChatGPT

ChatGPT now remembers context across sessions — which changes how you use it for ongoing projects, client work, and recurring tasks.

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Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash is noticeably faster

If you've been frustrated with speed on complex tasks, this is worth testing — especially for high-volume content and summarization workflows.

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Anthropic: Claude's reasoning is measurably improving

Extended thinking mode is showing stronger results on multi-step business problems. Worth revisiting if you haven't tried it recently.

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Copy this into ChatGPT or Claude:

"Act as a senior consultant. I run a [type of business]. My biggest operational bottleneck right now is [describe it]. Suggest 3 AI tools or workflows that could reduce this bottleneck by at least 30%, with specific implementation steps for each."

Replace the brackets and run it. You'll have a roadmap in 60 seconds.

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