So here's an update and I don't know if this is a permanent fix, but so far it seems to work. Rather than just using regular chat. GPT, I've actually started creating my own gpts at the very least, these gpts remember their basic programming and therefore the results can be predicted. This way I don't have to re-educate it every single time. I'll be honest with you. This was a major leveling up for me. Going from just using regular chat. Gpt to going to creating my own gpts. Occasionally someone will have a gpt that they publish and I've tweaked them and then use them to give me ideas. Poor new gbts now I have an entire operational flow using gpts that I've actually created myself. These are specifically trained to work within school and also using the platforms that I use for my other groups on Facebook and on meetups and then I found one that was built to monetize on skool that I was given because I leveled up within a group. I took it and reprogrammed it to be personalized for my particular business model. It's working really well. I went from stagnating at 100 members in my group to within one week growing to 111. So now I know it's working. Can't wait to have a couple of days off to really work on this group.

@Andrew G Wolfe Good question honestly the biggest challenge was exactly what I posted about above: building real infrastructure on top of a memory system that wasn't actually persistent. I'd lean into a framework for months and then watch it evaporate. What fixed it for me wasn't a workaround inside ChatGPT, it was switching my source of truth entirely. I moved to Claude and treat it as the single canon for my whole business, every framework, every filter, every decision gets written into documents that live there, not just chat memory. ChatGPT still has a role for me as a scratchpad for quick drafts, but nothing load-bearing depends on it remembering anything anymore. So I'd say the challenge now isn't losing the work, it's just discipline: making sure everything that matters actually gets written down instead of trusting any AI to hold it in its head.