Sessions Are Continuous
Open your editor. Your AI already knows your tech stack, your patterns, your constraints. Pick up exactly where you left off.
You're Building Alone. Your AI Should Know That.
Brief gives solo developers persistent project context. Every AI session picks up where you left off. No more re-explaining your entire project every time you open Cursor.
The Solo Developer's AI Problem
You picked up the project last weekend. Added a new feature. Made some architectural decisions. Left notes in a comment somewhere.
Now it's Tuesday evening. You have two hours to ship. You open Cursor, and it acts like it's never seen your codebase before. Because it hasn't. Not this session.
Without Context
You: "Add validation to the checkout form"
AI: "I'll add Yup validation with React Hook Form..."
You: "We use Zod. We decided that last week."
AI: "Of course! Let me use Zod instead..."
10 minutes lost. Again.
The pattern repeats. Every session. Every decision you've made, you have to re-explain. The AI is powerful but it has amnesia.
With Brief
You: "Add validation to the checkout form"
AI: "I see you're using Zod for validation (Decision #12). I'll add a Zod schema for the checkout form that matches your existing patterns in /lib/validations..."
Straight to building.
What Changes With Brief
Decisions Don't Repeat
Made a decision last month? Brief remembers. AI won't suggest the approach you rejected. You won't have the same conversation twice.
Your Time Goes Further
Solo hours are precious. Every minute saved on context-setting is a minute spent shipping. Brief makes your AI sessions productive from the first prompt.
How Solo Developers Use Brief
Side Projects
You work on it weekends and evenings. A week between sessions. Brief holds the context so you're not spending your first 20 minutes just remembering where you were.
Indie Products
You're shipping to real users. You've talked to customers, made product decisions, chosen patterns. Brief makes sure AI builds for your actual users, not generic personas.
Client Work
Multiple projects, multiple contexts. Brief keeps them separate. Switch projects and AI knows which tech stack, which constraints, which decisions apply.
Learning Projects
Building to learn. Brief captures your decisions and the rationale. Look back at why you chose that pattern. Your project becomes its own documentation.
Questions Solo Developers Ask
Is this overkill for a solo project?
If you use AI coding tools regularly and you've ever felt frustrated re-explaining context, Brief helps. The setup is minimal. The payoff compounds over time as your decision history grows.
What's the minimum setup?
Connect Brief to your AI tool (2 minutes). Start recording decisions as you make them. That's it. You can add integrations later if you want automatic context extraction from other tools.
I already have a .cursorrules file. How is this different?
Cursorrules is static text that loads once. Brief is dynamic context: searchable decisions, customer personas, strategic constraints. They complement each other. Use cursorrules for coding conventions, Brief for product context.
What if I switch between multiple projects?
Brief supports multiple projects. Each has its own context. Your AI knows which project you're working on and loads the relevant decisions and constraints.
Make Every AI Session Count
You're building alone but you don't have to start from scratch every session. Brief remembers so your AI can help.