THE COMPANION
SECTION 18
ISSUE 001
Consumer Agent Switching Layer
Projection: A neutral portability layer could move preferences, memories, permissions, and correction history between assistants, preventing any provider from becoming the sole custodian of a person’s digital context. Application rankings show a competitive market, not interoperability. Switching must work without manual reconstruction or silent loss of access rules.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
Source-backed premise: the cited captures establish consumer AI adoption and application-ranking signals. Editorial projection: Portable memory, permissions, and preferences can prevent one assistant from owning a person’s entire digital life. The sources do not prove that outcome; the observable adoption test is whether people port memory, permissions, and preferences between consumer assistants without manual reconstruction.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Sensor Tower State of AI 2026
market intelligence / published 2026-06-16 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition
investor market map / dated 2026-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Adoption Monitor
academic monitor / dated 2026-07 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S04Consumers Want AI Shopping Help, But Not Purchase Decisions
consumer survey / published 2026-05-27 / retrieved 2026-07-09