Where files live
Wherever they already do. SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Google Drive, S3, Azure Blob, SMB, Box, Dropbox. Foldr is a layer in front.
In the platform’s own cloud. Files are uploaded into it and managed from there.
Migration
None. Connect existing storage in minutes; disconnect just as fast.
Required. Files move into the platform to be governed and shared from inside it.
Permissions
Inherited from the source storage on every query. SharePoint says yes or no. AD says yes or no. Foldr asks.
Native ACLs inside the platform. Permissions are reissued there; existing source-of-truth ACLs in SharePoint, AD or S3 don’t carry across.
Identity
SAML, Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace, LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos.
SAML, Microsoft Entra, Google Workspace. LDAP and Active Directory support varies by vendor.
Document editing
Foldr Bureau. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text open and edit in the browser on Foldr’s own engines, so nothing is round-tripped through Microsoft or Google and an appliance with no route out to the internet behaves exactly the same. Saves are non-destructive: the parts of a file nobody edited come back byte for byte. The editors are beta today, and the desktop apps carry on working as they always have.
Dropbox Paper is native; Office files go out to Office for the web or Google Workspace.
AI assistant
Grace. Reads only what each user is allowed to see, on every query. No shadow indexes. Can also build and run automations on demand.
Dropbox Dash. Offered alongside Dropbox plans.
Document capture
Captur. Intelligent extraction by default, templates for high-volume layouts. Native positional reading of text PDFs; OCR fallback for scans. MaSH routes the result.
File requests, third-party integrations for extraction.
Automation
Three surfaces, one engine. Mashup is the visual block editor; MaSH is the plain-text script checked into source control; Grace is the verbal route via the AI assistant. Switch between any of them on the same workflow. Bundle with shares and fields into a Foldr Flow file.
Dropbox automations and Replay/Workflows.
Deploy
Self-hosted virtual appliance for your own datacentre, your own cloud account, or an air-gapped network, or fully managed SaaS in the UK and EU. Same product surface either way; move between them at any time.
SaaS-controlled for the major vendors today. Some still expose customer-managed storage zones or local caches, but the platform itself runs in the vendor’s cloud.
Pricing model
SaaS per-seat tiers, or a fixed annual licence on the appliance. Disconnect Foldr at any point and your files are still in the storage you already had; no extraction project.
SaaS per-seat tiers, often with separate per-external-user pricing for collaboration features. Leaving means a migration project; your files have to come back out.
Best fit
Estates that don’t want vendor lock-in, that need to keep files on their own storage for privacy or compliance, or that need a self-hosted option. Existing SharePoint, S3, SMB or mixed estates that don’t want to migrate.
Greenfield deployments where the storage destination is open. Teams that want a single vendor for the whole stack and are happy to put their data inside it.
