How do I buy an AI activity record for a whole project instead of separate chat logs?
Buy the record at the connection level, not inside each chat. When the work runs through Zambo, every step of the project lands in one record as a verifiable receipt, across sessions and across AIs, and the project rolls up into one handover link your client can check.
Separate chat logs fail a project in three ways. They scatter: the work lives in five threads across two assistants and a month. They stop at the chat boundary: steps taken by tools, and the sources behind them, sit outside the transcript. And they are self-reported: each log is its author's account, with no independent way to check that it was not edited later.
A project record is a different object. The unit is the step, not the conversation: an instruction, a tool call, a source check, a produced file, each saved as its own receipt with its time and producer label. Sessions end, assistants change, the record continues, because it hangs on the connection rather than on any one chat. The day view at /today shows the work as it accumulates; the handover is the project, packaged for the client.
What to ask before buying, for any vendor: does the record survive switching AIs mid-project? Does it include tool steps and source states, or only messages? Can the client open the whole project from one link? Can you export the project record and keep it after cancellation? If any answer is no, you are buying better-organized chat logs.
Template: the project record index
Project: [name]. Client: [name]. Record owner: [person]. Period: [start to end]. Sections: 1. Instructions and brief, as saved. 2. Steps by week, each with its receipt link. 3. Source states summary: resolved / not resolved / not checked counts. 4. Deliverables and the version accepted. 5. Decisions: acceptances and flags, with decider and date. 6. Spend events and caps hit. 7. Open items and exceptions. 8. Export location and retention owner. Keep the index with the contract; it is the map a client, auditor, or successor reads first.
Worked example
A multi-step project record reads like the public handover https://zambo.dev/handover/508a46e2-8d6e-4099-bd12-7ae461c72c55 : one job's steps behind one link, each step openable, the whole thing checkable without any of the original chats. Scale that shape across a project's weeks and you have the object this page is about: the chats can be deleted and the record still stands.
Frequently asked questions
Can one record really span different AI assistants?
Yes, when the record hangs on the connection rather than the chat. Work run through Zambo from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or another supported client lands in the same record, each step labelled with the producer recorded at the time.
What happens to the record when the project ends?
It stays yours: exportable, openable, and checkable after the fact. The closeout habit is to export the project record with its index and file both with the contract, so a question six months later has somewhere to go.
Is a project record the same as project management software?
No. Project tools plan and assign work; the record proves what executed. They complement each other: the plan says what should happen, the receipts say what did, step by step.
By Brennan Zambo, founder of Zambo.
Last verified: 2026-10-17.
Try a handover
A handover gives your client one proof link with verifiable receipts to review, then Accept or Flag.
try it: say 'use zambo to hand this over to <client>' in your ai