diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b65efe985
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Bolt's Performance Journal
+
+## 2026-04-23 - Memoizing Authentication and Data Fetching
+**Learning:** In Next.js App Router, core functions like `getUser` and `verifyToken` are often called by multiple server components and layouts. Without memoization, this leads to redundant database queries and CPU-intensive JWT verification. React's `cache()` is the recommended way to deduplicate these operations within a single request.
+**Action:** Always wrap shared data-fetching or expensive utility functions with `cache()` to ensure they only run once per request.
diff --git a/lib/auth/session.ts b/lib/auth/session.ts
index 0c474c70aa..e752632906 100644
--- a/lib/auth/session.ts
+++ b/lib/auth/session.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { compare, hash } from 'bcryptjs';
 import { SignJWT, jwtVerify } from 'jose';
 import { cookies } from 'next/headers';
 import { NewUser } from '@/lib/db/schema';
+import { cache } from 'react';
 
 const key = new TextEncoder().encode(process.env.AUTH_SECRET);
 const SALT_ROUNDS = 10;
@@ -30,12 +31,16 @@ export async function signToken(payload: SessionData) {
     .sign(key);
 }
 
-export async function verifyToken(input: string) {
+/**
+ * ⚡ OPTIMIZATION: Memoized JWT verification.
+ * Prevents redundant CPU-intensive JWT verification within a single request lifecycle.
+ */
+export const verifyToken = cache(async (input: string) => {
   const { payload } = await jwtVerify(input, key, {
     algorithms: ['HS256'],
   });
   return payload as SessionData;
-}
+});
 
 export async function getSession() {
   const session = (await cookies()).get('session')?.value;
diff --git a/lib/db/queries.ts b/lib/db/queries.ts
index c607c8f746..55a9ee7608 100644
--- a/lib/db/queries.ts
+++ b/lib/db/queries.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,14 @@ import { db } from './drizzle';
 import { activityLogs, teamMembers, teams, users } from './schema';
 import { cookies } from 'next/headers';
 import { verifyToken } from '@/lib/auth/session';
+import { cache } from 'react';
 
-export async function getUser() {
+/**
+ * ⚡ OPTIMIZATION: Memoized user lookup.
+ * Ensures the database is queried only once per request, even if multiple
+ * components call this function. Reduces database load and request latency.
+ */
+export const getUser = cache(async () => {
   const sessionCookie = (await cookies()).get('session');
   if (!sessionCookie || !sessionCookie.value) {
     return null;
@@ -34,7 +40,7 @@ export async function getUser() {
   }
 
   return user[0];
-}
+});
 
 export async function getTeamByStripeCustomerId(customerId: string) {
   const result = await db
@@ -64,7 +70,12 @@ export async function updateTeamSubscription(
     .where(eq(teams.id, teamId));
 }
 
-export async function getUserWithTeam(userId: number) {
+/**
+ * ⚡ OPTIMIZATION: Memoized user and team lookup.
+ * Deduplicates database queries when retrieving both user and team info
+ * in the same request.
+ */
+export const getUserWithTeam = cache(async (userId: number) => {
   const result = await db
     .select({
       user: users,
@@ -76,7 +87,7 @@ export async function getUserWithTeam(userId: number) {
     .limit(1);
 
   return result[0];
-}
+});
 
 export async function getActivityLogs() {
   const user = await getUser();
@@ -99,7 +110,11 @@ export async function getActivityLogs() {
     .limit(10);
 }
 
-export async function getTeamForUser(userId: number) {
+/**
+ * ⚡ OPTIMIZATION: Memoized team lookup for user.
+ * Prevents redundant complex joins/queries for team data within a single request.
+ */
+export const getTeamForUser = cache(async (userId: number) => {
   const result = await db.query.users.findFirst({
     where: eq(users.id, userId),
     with: {
@@ -126,4 +141,4 @@ export async function getTeamForUser(userId: number) {
   });
 
   return result?.teamMembers[0]?.team || null;
-}
+});