Folk is built for teams sharing contacts. If you work alone, you pay for collaboration you never use and still do every follow-up yourself. Orbit is a simple, all-in-one CRM for one person, with one AI assistant, Hiro, that drafts follow-ups and does the busywork. The free plan needs no credit card. Below: the honest trade-offs and a one-afternoon migration plan.
Folk is modern contact management for teams. Shared groups, collaborative pipelines, contact sync, a slick extension for capturing people from around the web. When several people work the same network, that shared layer is the product.
Work alone, though, and the picture flips. You are paying for collaboration features with nobody to collaborate with. And folk, like most contact managers, organizes your relationships but does not work them. The follow-ups, the chasing, the check-ins: still you, every time.
That is the usual exit reason. Not that folk is weak, but that a solo operator needs help with the work more than a shared address book.
Orbit is built around one person, with one AI assistant, Hiro, doing the work. Everything Hiro produces arrives as a suggestion you approve, edit, or dismiss.
Team collaboration is the big one. Folk is genuinely good at shared contact groups, multi-player pipelines, and keeping a team's network deduplicated and synced, and its capture extension covers a wide range of sources. Orbit's Chrome extension saves people from LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, or any site, and it is part of every paid plan.
If two or more people need to live in the same contact base today, folk should stay on your shortlist. Orbit does have a Team plan at $20/seat with a shared workspace, roles, and a shared inbox, but folk is more mature for team work. Choose Orbit when the workspace is mainly yours and the goal is follow-up that happens without you pushing every message.
Solo work does not need shared contacts. It needs follow-up that happens without you.
Yes. Export your contacts from folk as a CSV file and import it into Orbit. Your folk groups translate to tags and smart views, and any extra attributes can become custom fields on the contact.
Orbit has a Team plan at $20/seat with a shared workspace, roles and permissions, lead assignment, and a shared inbox. It is newer than folk, which is more mature for collaborative contact work. Orbit is built first around one person per workspace, with multiple isolated workspaces if you run several businesses.
Orbit has one AI assistant, Hiro, not a roster of agents. Ask it to create or update contacts and deals, manage tasks and your calendar, draft follow-ups and replies, write proposals and invoices, and build pages or forms. Everything lands as a suggestion you approve, edit, or dismiss, and it remembers facts across chats.
Yes. Orbit's free plan needs no credit card: the CRM with up to 250 contacts, one pipeline, unlimited tasks, calendar, notes, a built-in email inbox, and basic Tables. AI is included with free monthly credits on every plan.
Yes. Orbit has a Chrome extension (on any paid plan) that saves anyone from LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, or any site in one click. You can also bring contacts in by hand, by CSV import, or through your forms and booking page.
Free to start, no credit card. Import your contacts and let Hiro draft your follow-up this week.
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