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Your ChatGPT history, turned into portable AI profiles

Switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing years of context

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Why Hermit exists

Claude wants your memory.But ChatGPT gives it garbage.

Anthropic built a Memory Import feature. Step one? Ask ChatGPT to dump everything it knows about you.

</>ChatGPT's memory export
~40 facts

[2024-03] β€” The user is a product manager, not a proj...

[2024-04] β€” The user works at Lifen, a healthtech...

[2024-06] β€” The user is training for a half-marathon...

[2024-07] β€” The user is looking to buy an apartment...

[2024-09] β€” The user had a teeth whitening appoint...

[2024-11] β€” The user uses Supabase, React Native...

[unknown] β€” The user prefers concise answers

[unknown] β€” The user has a cat named Pixel

[unknown] β€” The user drinks coffee every morning

[unknown] β€” The user prefers dark mode in all apps

[unknown] β€” The user has visited Japan twice

[unknown] β€” The user is learning to cook Ital...

[unknown] β€” The user listens to podcasts while...

[unknown] β€” The user has a dog named Mochi

... and 32 more timestamped facts

Outdated facts stay forever. No structure. No synthesis.

What Claude actually needs
Hermit's profile
14x more context

Identity

Maria is a product designer transitioning into a founder role, based in Paris. She left Lifen to build a React Native app for French real estate buyers.

Actionable instructions for Claude

When she asks for a recommendation, lead with a single clear pick. She dislikes balanced option menus.

When discussing her startup, anchor to the real estate market β€” she has deep domain knowledge of French notary processes.

On health questions, factor in her marathon training load before suggesting changes.

Active right now

Building MVP β€” React Native + Supabasestartup
Training for Paris Marathon β€” April 2026health
Evaluating co-founder candidateteam

Concluded

PM job search at healthtech startupspast
Apartment hunting in Parispast

Structured. Actionable. Knows what's current and what's past.

ChatGPT picks ~40 random facts. Hermit reads your entire export β€” including your ChatGPT projects and most-discussed themes β€” and generates a structured profile with behavioral instructions Claude can actually follow. Same import, 14x more context.

How it works

From ChatGPT to Claude (or others) in 3 steps

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Upload

Drop your file on Hermit. We read it locally and show your stats for free.

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Get your profiles

AI synthesizes your history into rich profiles. Import into Claude's memory in one click.

Hermit maps this automatically β€” for free

Your projects

ChatGPT Projects
Side project MVP
18 conv. Β· 142K words
Job search 2024
11 conv. Β· 98K words
Personal finance
27 conv. Β· 87K words
Health & training
14 conv. Β· 63K words

+ 8 more projects

Your biggest topics

AI-detected
Career transition
89 conv. Β· 412K words
Full stack development
64 conv. Β· 287K words
Relationships & life
43 conv. Β· 198K words

+ 6 more topics

Hermit then generates a structured profile for each β€” ready to paste into Claude.

Privacy first

Your data stays yours

Encrypted

File encrypted during processing

No human access

Only AI reads your conversations

Auto-deleted

Original file gone after ~10 min

24h retention

Everything wiped within 24 hours

What you get

Everything in your ZIP

AI Portrait

Who you are, how you think, what patterns you repeat β€” synthesized from your entire conversation history into a coherent narrative. Includes recurring themes, working style, and behavioral instructions.

Topic Profiles

One per ChatGPT project or detected theme. Paste into a dedicated Claude Project β€” migrate your entire workflow.

Claude Memory Import

One file for Claude's Memory Import. Paste once, Claude knows you everywhere.

Current Snapshot

Your last 6 months. Active projects, current priorities β€” no outdated noise.

Import Guide

Step-by-step instructions for Claude Projects, Claude Memory, and Gemini Gems.

Memory Bullets

25 atomic facts for Claude's quick-recall memory system.

What Hermit builds from your conversations

Here's a real profile β€” generated from someone's ChatGPT export, shared with their permission.

Claude Memory Import

Recommended first step

Paste once into Claude's Memory Import. Claude knows you everywhere, across every conversation.

How to work with this person

Lead with visual references when explaining abstract concepts β€” she thinks in images and spatial relationships before she thinks in words.

and 5 other behavioral instructions

Who she is

Maria is a 31-year-old French product designer working in the Paris startup ecosystem β€” someone who came up through visual design but now operates at the intersection of UX strategy, brand systems, and front-end implementation. She is a senior designer at a Series B fintech, where she owns the design system and leads a two-person design team, but spends her evenings and weekends building toward independence: freelance clients, a side project (a collaborative moodboarding tool), and a growing LinkedIn presence where she writes about design decisions with unusual honesty.

Your thinking is shaped by a fine arts education (Γ‰cole Estienne) that gave you typographic and editorial instincts, followed by a pivot into product design that forced you to reconcile aesthetics with conversion metrics. You don't see these as opposed β€” you see most designers as having given up on the synthesis too early.

You are not a casual user of AI. You use ChatGPT as a design thinking partner β€” not to generate mockups, but to stress-test product reasoning, explore naming systems, structure client proposals, and think through career decisions out loud. You treat AI the way some designers treat sketchbooks: a space for thinking that is private, iterative, and accumulative.

Beyond migration

See yourself through your conversations

ChatGPT stores ~40 facts about you. Your real patterns are in the conversations it doesn't remember.

What ChatGPT stores

ChatGPT's memory~40 facts

[unknown] β€” The user prefers concise answers

[unknown] β€” The user has a cat named Pixel

[unknown] β€” The user drinks coffee every morning

[2024-09] β€” The user had a teeth whitening appoint...

[unknown] β€” The user prefers dark mode in all apps

[unknown] β€” The user has visited Japan twice

[unknown] β€” The user listens to podcasts while...

... and 33 more facts

What Hermit generates

AI Portrait
Full history
You are a product designer who transitioned into a solo founder role. Your career reflects a pattern of seeking increasing autonomy over the problems you solve. You process decisions by writing them out β€” often in conversation with AI β€” and you trust structured frameworks over intuition alone.

RECURRING THEME: You consistently architect multiple income streams to sustain yourself while protecting time for your main venture. This is structural, not scattered.

ACTIVE: Building MVP (React Native + Supabase)
PAST: PM job search at healthtech startups (concluded Dec 2024)

Same user. Left: what ChatGPT stores. Right: what Hermit generates from the full conversation history.

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