# Baalda: the team second brain

> The team second brain: plain markdown on your disk, edited live by your team and your AI.

Source: https://baalda.com/
Site: Baalda, https://baalda.com

Baalda is a team second brain. Every note is a plain markdown file on your own disk, edited together in real time by your whole team, with an AI assistant that reads and writes those same files over MCP. It is local-first, open source under Apache-2.0, and self-hostable.

## What it is

- Storage: plain markdown (.md) files on disk, owned by you, no lock-in
- Collaboration: real-time, keystroke-level, merged with a CRDT
- AI: reads and writes your notes over MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Permissions: per file, Viewer or Editor
- Licence: Apache-2.0, self-hostable (https://github.com/naveedharri/baalda/blob/main/LICENSE)
- Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux
- Source: https://github.com/naveedharri/baalda
- Current desktop version: 0.1.82

## Features

### Editor

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. Open the same file in any editor, back it up however you like, and keep it long after any tool.

### Collaboration

Edit the same note, at the same time.

Two people in one note, with cursors and presence, merged keystroke by keystroke through a CRDT. No conflict dialog, no duplicated section, no lost work, and the file on disk stays the same file your assistant reads.

### AI over MCP

Your assistant reads and writes the same files.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client to a vault. The assistant works in the same markdown your team is editing, so what it writes is immediately a teammate's note rather than a transcript trapped in a chat window.

### Backlinks & graph

See how the thinking connects.

Wikilinks between notes build a backlink index and a graph view as you write. It is a map of what your team actually references, not a diagram anyone had to maintain by hand.

### Permissions

Per-file Viewer and Editor access.

Share a folder with the team and keep the hiring loop private, down to the individual file. Permissions travel with the vault, so a shared second brain does not mean everything is shared.

### Versioning

Checkpoints you can roll back to.

A checkpoint captures the whole vault, every note's content and the folder structure together. One is taken automatically each day the vault changes and the five most recent are kept, or you can label your own before a big reorganisation. Reverting rolls every member's vault back and broadcasts the change live.

### Teams & vaults

One vault per team or client.

Separate vaults per team or client, each permissioned on its own, with classic folders and tags inside. Structure that still makes sense when the team doubles.

## Plans

### Free, $0 / forever

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, $10 / seat / 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

## More

- Features: https://baalda.com/features.md
- Pricing: https://baalda.com/pricing.md
- Docs: https://baalda.com/docs.md
- Comparisons: https://baalda.com/compare.md
- Blog: https://baalda.com/blog.md
- Full site as one file: https://baalda.com/llms-full.txt