# Rachel Kowalski, Principal Consultant at Thornfield Advisory — read of Converse, June 11 2026

> 14 years in B2B strategy consulting, running a team of 8, drowning in AI conversation tabs every single week.

## How I got here

I Googled "search across chatgpt conversations" on a Tuesday afternoon after spending 45 minutes trying to find a client segmentation framework I'd built with ChatGPT back in February. I knew exactly what it said. I could not find it. My search history had decayed into mush. A Reddit thread mentioned something called Converse, someone had linked it. I clicked.

## What I clicked first

"Find what you asked. Remember what you learned." That actually stopped me. It's not clever. It's just accurate. That is exactly the problem. I have probably 600 conversations across Claude and ChatGPT and I have no idea what's in most of them. The pain is real. The headline names it without torturing a metaphor.

"Search across all your conversations at once. Find that exact prompt." Yep. Still reading.

## Where I paused

The pricing section. Not because of the price. Because I suddenly wasn't sure what I was buying.

"Browse free. Unlock for $5. Adopt for $99." Adopt? What does adopt mean for software? I scrolled back up. Then I hit the section I'd half-skimmed: "Honest disclosure: we don't have live customers on this idea yet. We shipped the strategy package; you ship the customer conversations."

I read that three times. So... this is not software I can use. This is a kit to build the software? And "$-15,220 Year-1 take-home (Fermi)" is the projected profit for someone who BUILDS this product, not for me as a user?

I had completely misread what this page was selling for the first two minutes. That's a problem.

## What I distrusted

Once I understood the model, the whole page reframed badly. All the feature copy ("Multi-LLM Sync," "Privacy-First Architecture," "Secure Team Collaboration") reads like feature specs for a product that doesn't exist yet. The "Try it Live result" section, which seemed like a product demo, is apparently just a before/after illustration.

There's also this section that scores the idea itself: "67/100 Adoptability." The strongest axes include "buyer clarity: 10/10" which is almost funny, because I, the buyer, did not have clarity about what I was purchasing until paragraph six.

"We never train on your data. We never sell your conversations." This is fine to say but it's said about a product that isn't running yet, about data that doesn't exist yet. It's a promise about future behavior stated as current fact.

## What would convince me

If I'm reading this as a potential user someday: a waitlist with a clear ship date and one screenshot of the actual interface. Not the before/after diagram. The real thing.

If I'm somehow reading this as a potential builder: one operator who actually adopted a Wishdeal package and shipped something real. Not a testimonial slide. A name, a product, a URL I can visit.

## What I'd ask in an email reply

1. Is there a version of Converse I can actually sign up for and use right now, even in beta?
2. The "$99 adopt" tier includes "working code starter" -- what stack, how complete, and has anyone actually shipped a live product from one of these packages?
3. How is this different from just using the Projects feature in Claude or the memory features in ChatGPT, which do some version of this already?

## Verdict: on-the-fence

The pain this solves is completely real and I'd pay $15/month for working software tomorrow. But I came here looking for software and found a business idea storefront, and the page doesn't tell you that clearly until you're halfway through it. Fix the first 200 words and this gets a lot more interesting.

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*Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-06-11. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*