A Second Brain, Shared.
The team second brain. Plain Markdown files on your disk, edited together in real time, and read and written by your AI like a teammate.
Free & open source · Apache-2.0 · v0.1.112 · macOS · Windows · Linux
Launch plan
Everything we need for the Q4 launch. Owner: Maya. See Roadmap 2027.
Notes from today
Goals
Five pilot teams, 2 confirmed
Draft the announcement
Book the launch call
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Setup & support
One-on-one support, from the Baalda creator
Get your team’s Second Brain set up properly, then keep it working. Support runs through the Ben AI Accelerator, alongside a community of 1k+ professionals getting results with AI.
- Unlimited 1:1 calls
- Weekly onboarding
- Courses & templates
- Community support
The tour · 1:28
Got 88 seconds? Here is the whole app.
Files
Plain markdown,
on your own disk
Every note is a real .md file in a folder you own. No database, no proprietary block format, no export button to beg for. Your context outlives every tool built on top of it, Baalda included.
- Plain markdown
- Works offline
- Backlinks & graph
- No lock-in
Q3 strategy
Where we are
Three bets this quarter. See Pricing experiments and Self-host GA.
- DocsYesterday--
- MeetingsToday at 09:15--
- ProjectsToday at 11:47--
- Q3 strategy.mdToday at 14:024 KB
- Welcome.md12 Oct 20262 KB
Collaborate
Everyone in the same note, at once.
Open the same file together. A CRDT merges every keystroke, so two people, or ten, never clobber each other’s work. No conflict dialogs, no lost strategy docs.
Launch plan
Everything we need for the Q4 launch.
Goals
Five pilot teams
Draft the announcement
Book the launch call
Notes from today
Connect
Your AI writes in the same files you do
Connect an assistant over MCP and it works in your markdown as a real collaborator. Its writes flow through the same sync as human edits, as operations rather than whole-file overwrites.
- Read any note it has access to
- Write plain markdown back
- Merge as operations, never whole-file overwrites
- Respect the same per-file permissions you set
- Follow wikilinks and backlinks
- Leave a version history you can walk back
Organize
Structure that survives a growing team
Separate vaults per team, classic folders and tags inside them, and a graph of how your team’s thinking actually connects.
- VaultsOne per team or client, permissioned separately
- Folders & tagsClassic structure for clear hierarchies
- GraphBacklinks that survive renames
Pricing experiments
#roadmap#rfc
Two tests before launch, both tied to Q3 strategy.
Linked from
- Q3 strategy7
- Self-host GA3
- Architecture decisions3
GRAPH
Who is it for?
One shared brain for the whole team, and for the AI working with it.
- Write it once, together
- Give every AI the same context
- Share the team folder, keep the rest
Northwind kickoff
Kickoff notes. The brief lives in Brief.
Decisions
Built to scale
From your notes to your whole company
Most tools slow to a crawl as your notes pile up or your team grows. Baalda doesn’t. Everything stays quietly up to date in the background, so the moment you click, it’s already there.
Every note is up to date before you open it. Need more? Baalda scales out to tens of thousands of people working at once.
Learn more about how Baalda scalesFrom the people using it
“Brilliant. Easy to set up, simple to use, and has made a huge difference to the quality of the output that I get from my AI tools.”
“I use Baalda as a second brain with Claude, and it's changed how I work. … I get better answers and spend far less time explaining things. … My AI now knows my business almost as well as I do, which is either very useful or slightly worrying. Probably both.”
MichaelCaracal Lynx“With Baalda we were able to develop a 'second brain' way faster on the technical side than expected. That's the reason that we can focus more time on the architecture and usage of it in the meantime.”
s.vanmoorselJuist“The MCP, the dashboards... it's easier to maintain thanks to the skills provided. I saw new skills to download. It's much better than Obsidian, honestly.”
RechercheTranslated from FrenchPricing
Free for you and a teammate.
Per seat when the team grows.
The app is free and open source, and so is sync for two. Team adds seats, vaults and file sync.
Free
Local, self-host & managed$0forever
Sync for two is included.
For you and one teammate. Self-host with no limits.
- 2 people and 1 synced vault
- Unlimited notes and attachments
- Real-time collaboration
- MCP for your AI tools
- Works offline, files stay on your disk
- Self-host the backend, no limits (Apache-2.0)
Team
Managed, per seat$10per seat a month
or $110 per seat a year · minimum 3 seats
For teams of 3 or more, on one account across every vault.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited people, one seat each
- Unlimited synced vaults
- Standalone file sync
- Priority support
Start your team’s brain
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