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Accelerate deal decisions with structured competitive intelligence

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Corporate strategy teams waste over 15 hours every week manually capturing market news, paywalled reports, and competitor updates into fragmented company docs that quickly become outdated.

Folio transforms scattered web research into a centralized, vendor-agnostic Markdown vault enriched with automated metadata, deal signals, and executive briefs. By saving content directly into version-controlled local and cloud repositories, research remains 100% private, searchable offline, and permanently owned by the enterprise. Strategy teams can instantly cross-reference competitor moves and extract actionable executive takeaways without lock-in to proprietary SaaS platforms.

Folio is building the permanent knowledge backbone for modern corporate strategy and venture teams.

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Problem
  • When I lead competitive analysis for upcoming strategy reviews, I want to collect articles, SEC filings, and product updates in one place, but manual copy-pasting strips source metadata and creates stale documentation silos.
  • Why Now: The explosion of web noise has inflated online data volume by 10x, making clean, vendor-agnostic local knowledge repositories essential for high-conviction decision making.
  • When I conduct M&A due diligence across complex market verticals, I want to store web findings offline securely, but legacy web clippers lock target research behind cloud SaaS paywalls.
  • When I synthesize team-wide web research into executive briefs, I want to cross-reference past findings automatically, but current bookmarking options lack frontmatter schema and graph linking.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual web clipping into Notion, raw browser bookmarks, static PDF exports, and copy-pasting clean text into Obsidian notes.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Obsidian-compatible enterprise research engine for strategy teams
  • One-click browser extension that strips web bloat and saves formatted Markdown directly to local vaults and Git repositories.
  • Automated entity extraction that attaches custom YAML frontmatter tags for company names, funding rounds, and deal metrics.
  • Bi-directional team sync that surfaces internal cross-references across thousands of historical research notes without cloud lock-in.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Enterprise strategy directors, venture capital analyst teams, and M&A leads using Obsidian or Logseq for knowledge management.
  • Guerrilla Channel 1: Sponsoring high-signal industry newsletters targeted at Corporate Development and M&A executives.
  • Guerrilla Channel 2: Publishing open-source Obsidian plugins and GitHub enterprise templates that demonstrate local-first market research vaults.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free Tier ($0 for local single-user vault)
  • Pro Tier ($20/user/month for team Git sync & auto-frontmatter)
  • Enterprise Tier ($60/user/month for custom schema, SSO, and compliance audits).
  • One Metric That Matters [OMTM]: Monthly Active Synced Vaults with over 20 clipped web insights per week.
  • Market Sizing: 120k strategy and venture research teams globally; targeting 2% initial penetration (2.4k teams at $5k/year average contract value = $12M SOM).
Scale Costs
  • Enterprise security audits and SOC2 Type II compliance verification infrastructure.
  • High-throughput web scraping proxy networks and rendering infrastructure for bypassing complex paywalls.
  • Dedicated enterprise support engineering and custom integration maintainers for self-hosted Git backends.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.5
  • Chief Knowledge Officer in Enterprise SaaS with $120M+ ARR experience
    9.5
  • VP of Corporate Strategy & M&A at Global Tech Firm
    9.2
  • Head of Product Strategy & Former Venture Partner
    9.8
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