Switch
Switch from Folk.
A CRM with a browser extension that captures LinkedIn. Belda does the work, and you decide with one key. Your Folk export comes across as a file, deduplicated by domain, name and e-mail, the field map approved before anything is written.
What changes on Monday
On Monday the replies are read for you. Every reply is read into one of twelve classes and answered in its own language; a held reply waits with the answer drafted and the rule that held it, and you approve, edit or dismiss it with one key. In Folk, a reply stops the sequence for that recipient and the campaign counts sent, opened, replied and bounced with each recipient's activity. In Folk, this was not read on 28 September 2026; the state re-read on 2 October 2026.
The meeting books itself from your calendar. Two genuinely free slots go inside the answer, under your own rules for lead time, hours and meetings a day; the slot ledger refuses a double booking and the invite leaves from you. In Folk, booking runs through a scheduling tool that folk's integrations page lists: the prospect picks a time from the tool's link and an automation tool pushes the new invitee into folk.
The deal moves when the work moves. A meeting the agent booked moves the deal on its own, with the reason on the timeline, and only you move it to Won. In Folk, e-mail, calendar events and WhatsApp conversations import themselves through account sync and every message sent from folk becomes an interaction.
What you keep
Your record. Your Folk export comes across as a file, deduplicated by domain, name and e-mail, the field map approved before anything is written. Nobody you imported gets a letter until you release their market.
Your mailbox, your calendar, your notetaker and your team's chat stay yours. Letters leave from your own mailbox through the send gate, the notetaker you already pay for connects in one press, and Slack or Teams carries the card to the channel you name, where you decide it with the same keys.
Your rules, market by market. A market card sets the default language and the rules for each market, with the reason for each, and the person's own language wins over the card.
What Belda does that Folk only recorded: 16 of 19
- Answer every reply and book the meeting from my calendar. Folk: partly. Belda: Every reply read, classified and answered in the prospect's own language, with two free slots from your calendar in the reply itself, not a booking link; a yes books the meeting and the invite goes out from your calendar.
- Guard every send with code, and let me decide with one key. Folk: partly. Belda: The model drafts; the quote guard, the letter guard, the policy check and the slot ledger stand between every draft and the prospect; you decide with one key, and a reply goes out unattended only once that kind of reply has earned it on your own record; step in once, it is pulled back.
- Run one record from the first letter to the settled invoice, and keep what accumulates mine. Folk: partly. Belda: One record from the first letter to the meeting, the recap, the quote, the signature and the invoice, yours to export with the source and the day behind every fact, with no other CRM under it.
- Find the companies. Folk: partly. Belda: The companies that fit, read from their own sites with the sentence they were read from and the day; the official register says how many exist, and nothing is bought, because a bought list is an old copy of those same sites.
- Send from my own mailbox. Folk: partly. Belda: Every letter leaves from the seller's own mailbox through the send gate; the first batch is approved by hand, then the switch is one press and the card says where the answers arrive.
- Read every reply. Folk: partly. Belda: Twelve classes. A held reply waits with the answer drafted and the rule that held it. A approves, E edits, D dismisses.
- Answer in the prospect's language. Folk: not read. Belda: The language is read off the reply itself and the answer is written in it within minutes; the market card sets the default and the person's own language wins.
- Book from my calendar. Folk: partly, external scheduling tool. Belda: Two genuinely free slots from the seller's own calendar inside the reply, under the seller's own rules for lead time, hours and meetings a day; the slot ledger refuses a double booking; the invite goes from the seller with the right colleagues on it.
- Join my calls. Folk: partly. Belda: The notetaker you already pay for connects in one press; the transcript, the summary and what was promised land on the record, the meeting marks itself held, and the follow-up is drafted from the transcript and held for you.
- Draft the proposal from the call, held for me. Folk: not read. Belda: After a held meeting the agent proposes the quote from the transcript and your price book, and it waits for your yes.
- Quote and sign. Folk: partly. Belda: Pick the product and the deal adds up; the quote leaves from the deal with TCV, MRR and ARR; it goes out for signature and the deal comes back Won on its own.
- Invoice. Folk: partly. Belda: The first invoice is drafted where your money is counted; the invoice that went out sits on the deal with whether it was paid, and the agent never upsells a customer with an unpaid invoice.
- Tell me what to change. Folk: partly. Belda: Every number carries its denominator and says too early under the floor; the funnel from letters to meetings held, per market and per owner; what changed since last Monday, whether this list worked, and the Monday numbers as one checked sentence, with the download.
- Live in Slack or Teams. Folk: partly. Belda: Slack and Teams connect once for the team and route to the channel you name; the card lands there and you decide it there with the same keys.
- Reach LinkedIn and WhatsApp from the same desk, at human pace. Folk: partly. Belda: LinkedIn and WhatsApp are paired from the seller's own signed-in tab, run as lanes of the same sequence at human pace within a budget you can read, and a reply in any channel stops the sequence and lands on the desk.
- Bring my old CRM across in one press. Folk: partly. Belda: Pipedrive and HubSpot come across with one login; the field map is approved before anything is written, an import undoes, a second run adds only what is new, and nobody imported gets a letter until you release their market; any other CRM comes across by file with the columns mapped once.
What Folk does well: 3 of 19
- Write the first letter: Messages and sequences are written from templates with variables and personalised per recipient by the agent.
- Record itself: E-mail, calendar events and WhatsApp conversations import themselves through account sync and every message sent from folk becomes an interaction.
- The fifty words a CRM claims: People, companies, deals and custom objects (deals on Premium).
The matrix below carries every cell with the day it was read.