diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 846e4d7..40bdab7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,7 +36,5 @@ The gateway also fronts SearXNG-backed web search — see `docs/research/litellm
 
 ## What's not here
 
-Two features from earlier iterations of this stack were deliberately removed, not just left unfinished:
-
-- **Open WebUI + Qdrant** — this stack has no chat UI; every client is a coding CLI. Removed rather than kept idle.
-- **Gateway-level knowledgebase/memory** (`litellm-pgvector`, `pgvector-db`, a dedicated embedding model) — removed as unwanted, unrelated to OmniRoute's own lack of parity with it (see issue #31's #34).
+- **Open WebUI** — this stack has no chat UI; every client is a coding CLI. Removed rather than kept idle.
+- **Gateway-level knowledgebase/memory** (`litellm-pgvector`, `pgvector-db`, a dedicated embedding model) — removed as unwanted, unrelated to OmniRoute's own lack of parity with it (see issue #31's #34). Superseded by OmniRoute's own memory feature, backed by `qdrant` (bare service — wired up as a memory provider by hand in the dashboard, no static config here).
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 9f4f30f..f1de11d 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -56,6 +56,22 @@ services:
         curl -L --fail --create-dirs -o /models/${LLAMA_MODEL_FILE:-Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf}
         https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/resolve/main/${LLAMA_MODEL_FILE:-Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf}
 
+  # Vector store for OmniRoute's memory feature — wired up in the OmniRoute
+  # dashboard as a memory service, not via static config here. Not published
+  # to the host: only OmniRoute (same ai-stack network) talks to it.
+  qdrant:
+    image: qdrant/qdrant:latest
+    container_name: qdrant
+    volumes:
+      - qdrant-data:/qdrant/storage
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    networks: [ai-stack]
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "bash -c 'exec 3<>/dev/tcp/localhost/6333'"]
+      interval: 10s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 5
+
   # Replaces litellm — see issue #31 (wayfinder map) for the full migration
   # rationale/findings. No static config.yaml equivalent: provider routing
   # (llama-server, searxng-search) is registered once through the dashboard
@@ -67,15 +83,15 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       llama-server:
         condition: service_started
+      qdrant:
+        condition: service_healthy
     volumes:
       - omniroute-data:/app/data
     env_file: .env
     environment:
       # Split-port mode: dashboard and API are fully separate ports (unlike
-      # LiteLLM's single :4000 for both /v1 and /ui) — only API_PORT (via
-      # the OMNIROUTE_PORT:4000 host mapping below) is published, so the
-      # dashboard has no network route in from outside this container at
-      # all. No NPM path-deny rule needed.
+      # LiteLLM's single :4000 for both /v1 and /ui) — both published
+      # directly below, unlike the old :4000-only host mapping.
       - API_HOST=0.0.0.0
       - API_PORT=${OMNIROUTE_API_PORT:-20129}
       - DASHBOARD_PORT=${OMNIROUTE_DASHBOARD_PORT:-20128}
@@ -97,11 +113,6 @@ services:
     # network can't resolve search.home on its own.
     extra_hosts:
       - "search.home:${SEARXNG_LAN_IP}"
-    # OMNIROUTE_PORT (host) is decoupled from API_PORT (container-internal,
-    # left at omniroute's own default) via plain Docker port mapping — the
-    # gateway needs to stay reachable at the same :4000 this stack has
-    # always published (NPM/firewall already point there), without having
-    # to also change omniroute's own internal port config to match.
     ports:
       - "${OMNIROUTE_API_PORT:-20129}:${OMNIROUTE_API_PORT:-20129}"
       - "${OMNIROUTE_DASHBOARD_PORT:-20128}:${OMNIROUTE_DASHBOARD_PORT:-20128}"
@@ -153,3 +164,4 @@ networks:
 volumes:
   models:
   omniroute-data:
+  qdrant-data: