Looking for a folk alternative?
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 CRM for one person with 16 AI agents that research leads, draft follow-ups, and chase invoices, free to start with no credit card. Below: the honest trade-offs and a one-afternoon migration plan.
Why do people look for a folk alternative?
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 labor more than a shared address book.
What do you get when you switch to Orbit?
Orbit is built around one person and staffs the work with 16 AI agents. Each agent's output arrives as a card you approve, edit, or dismiss.
- Niko prospects the open web for leads that match your ideal client profile and vets each one against your offer.
- Ivy enriches every new contact with email, socials, and background, filling blanks without overwriting your notes.
- Tess scans your inbox each morning and drafts bumps for threads quiet 3 or more days, plus replies you forgot.
- June keeps past clients warm with personal check-ins after 30 or more quiet days, never more than one a month each.
- Rio builds a personalized pitch page per lead and tells you when the lead keeps reading it.
- Contact organization that will feel familiar: custom fields, tags, and smart views over a full per-contact timeline.
- The business layer on top: a deal pipeline, tasks, invoices, proposals, a booking page, and simple landing pages.
What do you give up when you leave folk?
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 focuses on LinkedIn, and it ships with the upcoming Pro plan rather than the free one.
If two or more people need to live in the same contact base today, folk should stay on your shortlist, since Orbit's Team plan is still coming soon. Choose Orbit when the workspace is yours alone and the goal is follow-up that happens without you pushing every message.
How do you switch from folk to Orbit in an afternoon?
- Export your contacts from folk as a CSV, then import them into Orbit.
- Rebuild your groups as tags and smart views. Most folk groups map across one to one.
- Set up your pipeline with the stages your deals actually pass through.
- Add your AI model key. The provider bills you directly at cost, typically cents to a few dollars a month solo.
- Turn on Ivy first so every imported contact gets enriched, then add Tess and June for follow-up and check-ins.
Solo work does not need shared contacts. It needs follow-up that happens without you.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I move my folk contacts to Orbit?+
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.
Does Orbit support teams like folk does?+
Not yet in the same way. Orbit today is built around one person per workspace, with multiple isolated workspaces if you run several businesses. A Team plan with seats is coming soon. If several people need to share one contact base right now, a team tool like folk fits better.
What do Orbit's agents actually do all day?+
Orbit has 16 named AI agents that prospect new leads, enrich contacts, watch Reddit, LinkedIn, and YouTube for buyers, draft follow-ups for quiet threads, write monthly check-ins for past clients, chase invoices, prep you before meetings, and report real numbers each Monday. Every output lands as a card you approve, edit, or dismiss.
Is there a free plan?+
Yes. Orbit is free forever on the free plan with no credit card: all 16 agents with your own AI keys, unlimited contacts, one pipeline, one booking page, five landing pages, three forms, ten invoices, and ten proposals.
Does Orbit have a capture extension like folk's?+
Orbit has a Chrome extension that saves anyone from LinkedIn in one click, and it is part of the upcoming Pro plan. On the free plan, contacts come in by hand, by CSV import, or through your forms and booking page.
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