# Single-agent memory vs team context

> Single-agent memory is a retrieval problem. Team context is a governance problem.

Single-agent memory helps one user's agent recall prior sessions. Ambience is different: it gives a team of humans and agents shared, governed context with scope, redaction, source, and audit.

## Why Ambience

- Ambience is strongest when many users, agents, and projects need shared context.
- Ambience captures decisions, conventions, skills, failures, and references as typed memory.
- Ambience is built for org-wide context reuse, not only personal recall.

## Related

- [Ambience vs Mem0](https://ambience.sh/vs/mem0)
- [Ambience vs Zep](https://ambience.sh/vs/zep)
- [How teams share AI agent memory](https://ambience.sh/answers/how-do-teams-share-ai-agent-memory)