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Export your Amazon data into a private AI brain
Amazon keeps a decade of what you buy, watch, read and search for — and will hand it over on request. The brain turns it into a shopping layer, a media taste graph and the mirror of what Amazon thinks you want.
What a Amazon export holds — and what the brain makes of it
The Amazon archive is long and oddly shaped: dozens of CSV and JSON files covering orders and subscriptions, retail searches, your product reviews and seller feedback, Prime Video, Kindle and Audible history, and the advertising audiences you were placed in. The brain builder writes orders and subscriptions into a Shopping layer, your reviews into the voice layer (they are your own written opinions), searches into a curiosity log, video, books and audiobooks into a media taste graph, and the audiences into the algorithmic mirror.
Before any of that, the builder quarantines what should never be in a brain: payment instruments, IP addresses, device serial numbers, authentication tokens and shipping addresses. They stay out, and the coverage report says so.
Get the export
How to export your Amazon data
The exact clicks, as they are today. Platforms move menus; the engine’s source docs are updated when they do.
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amazon.com → Account → Request Your Data (Data Privacy / "Request My Data")
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Choose "All Data Categories" (or pick Orders, Retail, Digital, Advertising), then Submit Request
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Confirm via the verification email; the archive arrives by email link within up to a few days
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Drop the archive on Amazon in Studio’s Sources — or tell Claude Code or Codex “build my brain from this”. The source is detected by itself, even inside a combined archive.
Then, next month
An export is a snapshot. Drop a newer one and press Update: your edits and _notes/ are kept, and the update report says what changed.
Then ask it
What you can ask a brain built from Amazon
Examples, not promises: the answer is whatever your notes hold, and every answer cites the notes it came from. The more exports you add, the more these questions cross sources.
- What do I buy on a subscription, and when did each one start?
- Which books did I finish on Kindle last year, and which did I abandon?
- What did I search for on Amazon and never buy?
- Which audiences has Amazon placed me in?
limitRequests can take a few days to arrive by email; the brain only knows what the archive contains, not your current cart.
Good to know
The honest answers.
Is my card or address in the brain? No. Payment instruments, IP addresses, serial numbers, auth tokens and saved or shipping addresses are quarantined — never imported.
Which categories should I request? "All Data Categories" is simplest. If you want less, Orders, Retail, Digital and Advertising cover what the brain reads.
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