Loom

The problem Loom is built around

Free-tier AI accounts (Claude.ai, ChatGPT free, Gemini free) limit how long a single conversation can run before tokens or messages run out. The standard workaround is to start a new chat, but every new chat means re-uploading whatever context the model needed — your project description, the code you've been iterating on, the persona, the constraints. Re-explaining that context burns tokens, takes minutes, and the model never picks up exactly where the previous chat left off.

Power users have learned to keep a "context preamble" document open and copy-paste it into each new chat. That works but is brittle: the document drifts out of date, you forget which version belongs to which thread, and switching to a fresh free account (to stretch the daily quota) is even messier.

What Loom does

Paste a chat transcript into Loom and it produces a tight, structured summary you can paste into a new chat as the opening message — covering project state, decisions made, code context, open questions, and the model's running understanding. The output is portable: it works whether the new chat is on the same provider, a different provider, or a fresh anonymous account.

Design priorities

• Lossless on intent — the summary preserves what you were trying to do and what's been decided, not just what was said.
• Short enough to fit anywhere — fits in the first message of any free-tier chat without immediately consuming half the context window.
• Provider-agnostic — the output format is plain prose with clear section headers. Works equally well as the opening message to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or a local model.
• Runs in your browser — no upload of your chat to AiLane's servers. The summarization happens client-side using a small language model loaded in the browser.

Typical use cases

• Stretching a free quota — your Claude free-tier just hit the message cap mid-debugging. Summarize, jump to a new chat, keep going.
• Migrating between tools — you've been pairing with ChatGPT but the next step needs Claude's longer context, or vice versa. Hand off the thread without restarting.
• Sharing context with a teammate — they want to pick up where you left off. Loom's summary is the briefing.
• Long-running personal projects — multi-day work where you'd otherwise be re-establishing context every morning.

What Loom is not

Loom isn't trying to be a wrapper around the major chatbots, doesn't store your conversations, and doesn't try to "do" the chat for you. It does exactly one thing: turn a long chat into a short briefing, then steps out of the way.

Current status

In early development. The browser-side summarization model is the trickiest part — balancing summary quality against model size that's downloadable in a few seconds. If you want to be on the early access list, drop a line: tryailane@gmail.com.