diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 82888df9e..aa48f9677 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1173,6 +1173,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "anstream",
  "camino",
  "clap",
+ "directories",
  "fs-err",
  "platform-host",
  "puffin-cache",
diff --git a/crates/gourgeist/Cargo.toml b/crates/gourgeist/Cargo.toml
index 6f06028b0..395ee705e 100644
--- a/crates/gourgeist/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/gourgeist/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ repository = { workspace = true }
 authors = { workspace = true }
 license = { workspace = true }
 
+[[bin]]
+name = "gourgeist"
+required-features = ["cli"]
+
 [lints]
 workspace = true
 
@@ -23,7 +27,8 @@ puffin-interpreter = { path = "../puffin-interpreter" }
 
 anstream = { workspace = true }
 camino = { workspace = true }
-clap = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
+clap = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"], optional = true }
+directories = { workspace = true }
 fs-err = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
@@ -32,3 +37,6 @@ thiserror = { workspace = true }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 which = { workspace = true }
+
+[features]
+cli = ["clap"]
diff --git a/crates/gourgeist/benchmark.sh b/crates/gourgeist/benchmark.sh
index af1de4d12..c4d4ac3de 100644
--- a/crates/gourgeist/benchmark.sh
+++ b/crates/gourgeist/benchmark.sh
@@ -2,15 +2,13 @@
 
 set -e
 
+cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+
 virtualenv --version
 
-#cargo build --profile profiling
-cargo build --release #--features parallel
-# Benchmarking trick! strip your binaries ٩( ∂‿∂ )۶
-strip target/release/gourgeist
+cargo build --profile profiling --bin gourgeist --features cli
 
-echo "## Bare"
-hyperfine --warmup 1 --prepare "rm -rf target/a" "virtualenv -p 3.11 --no-seed target/a" "target/release/gourgeist -p 3.11 --bare target/a"
-echo "## Default"
-hyperfine --warmup 1 --prepare "rm -rf target/a" "virtualenv -p 3.11 target/a" "target/release/gourgeist -p 3.11 target/a"
+hyperfine --warmup 1 --shell none --prepare "rm -rf target/venv-benchmark" \
+  "target/profiling/gourgeist -p 3.11 target/venv-benchmark" \
+  "virtualenv -p 3.11 --no-seed target/venv-benchmark"
 
diff --git a/crates/gourgeist/src/main.rs b/crates/gourgeist/src/main.rs
index a1411eb86..ef4c4adaa 100644
--- a/crates/gourgeist/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/gourgeist/src/main.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use std::time::Instant;
 use anstream::eprintln;
 use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
 use clap::Parser;
+use directories::ProjectDirs;
 use tracing::info;
 use tracing_subscriber::layer::SubscriberExt;
 use tracing_subscriber::util::SubscriberInitExt;
@@ -27,7 +28,11 @@ fn run() -> Result<(), gourgeist::Error> {
     let location = cli.path.unwrap_or(Utf8PathBuf::from(".venv"));
     let python = parse_python_cli(cli.python)?;
     let platform = Platform::current()?;
-    let cache = Cache::temp()?;
+    let cache = if let Some(project_dirs) = ProjectDirs::from("", "", "gourgeist") {
+        Cache::from_path(project_dirs.cache_dir())?
+    } else {
+        Cache::from_path(".gourgeist_cache")?
+    };
     let info = Interpreter::query(python.as_std_path(), platform, &cache).unwrap();
     create_bare_venv(&location, &info)?;
     Ok(())