--- title: “Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi... description: Israeli startup Uvi emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, pitching a shared memory layer that stops AI agents from repeatedly re-gathering... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: “Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi wants to stop the agent relearning brain drain | daily.dev og:description: Israeli startup Uvi emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, pitching a shared memory layer that stops AI agents from repeatedly re-gathering... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UkI3jrfhG.png og:image:alt: “Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi wants to stop the agent relearning brain drain og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # “Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi wants to stop the agent relearning brain drain **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Israeli startup Uvi emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, pitching a shared memory layer that stops AI agents from repeatedly re-gathering company context from Slack, Jira, GitHub and other systems. Uvi claims internal tests against 900 employee questions showed agents built directly on six enterprise systems cost roughly 8x more and took twice as long per answer compared to agents using Uvi's semantic layer and knowledge graph, with costs dropping from $0.75-$2.00 per answer to $0.10-$0.16, and up to 46x cheaper on open-ended questions. The company says its software already runs in production at Lemonade, monday.com, and Melio (part of Xero), though the benchmark results are internal and not independently verified. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why do AI agents connected directly to enterprise systems like Slack and Jira cost so much more per query than expected? Because they repeatedly re-gather context instead of reasoning, an agent connected directly to six enterprise systems like Slack, Jira, and GitHub needed 15 to 35 round trips per question to piece together information before answering. Startup Uvi found this drove costs to $0.75-$2.00 per answer, roughly eight times more than an agent with pre-connected context, which cost $0.10-$0.16 per answer using the same frontier model. _Developers weighing frontier-model agent costs can follow emerging context-layer approaches like this on daily.dev._ ### How much seed funding did Uvi raise and who are its enterprise customers? Uvi raised $7.5 million in seed funding from investors including CT Innovations, Cardumen, Mana VC and 91 Ventures. The Israeli startup says its software already runs in production at Lemonade and monday.com, both public companies, and at Melio, now part of Xero, with additional system integrations in development. _Those tracking new entrants in the AI agent infrastructure space can follow funding news like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Uvi raises $7.5M to give AI agents the company context they lack](https://daily.dev/posts/uvi-raises-7-5m-to-give-ai-agents-the-company-context-they-lack-tuq5e56vf) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS built an integrated AI Agent training pipeline and they want you to rent it](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-built-an-integrated-ai-agent-training-pipeline-and-they-want-you-to-rent-it-v7kw7ym2m) · Pulumi · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation](https://daily.dev/posts/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation-az1dhmmsh) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"“Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi wants to stop the agent relearning brain drain","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg"},"datePublished":"2026-10-16T11:03:53.753Z","dateModified":"2026-10-16T11:04:18.306Z","description":"Israeli startup Uvi emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, pitching a shared memory layer that stops AI agents from repeatedly re-gathering...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2ef8a4eb6ee1459d5588b13a227cf89c?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2ef8a4eb6ee1459d5588b13a227cf89c?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,ai-agents","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"“Developers are paying frontier prices for amnesia”: Uvi wants to stop the agent relearning brain drain"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/developers-are-paying-frontier-prices-for-amnesia-uvi-wants-to-stop-the-agent-relearning-brain-dr-uki3jrfhg#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why do AI agents connected directly to enterprise systems like Slack and Jira cost so much more per query than expected?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Because they repeatedly re-gather context instead of reasoning, an agent connected directly to six enterprise systems like Slack, Jira, and GitHub needed 15 to 35 round trips per question to piece together information before answering. 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