Meet a hundred people. Find the right one six months later.
After a conversation, talk for a minute about who you just met. Months later, ask in your own words — and FOLKO finds them, even when the name is gone.
- iPhone App Store From 4 November
- Android Google Play From 4 November
Six months later, all you remember is that you talked.
At a meetup or a conference people tell you what they do, what they need and who they know. Your phone keeps the name and the number. It doesn’t keep the conversation — and the conversation is what you need when someone asks “do you know anyone who…?”
What they do
Not the job title — what they actually work on.
Who they know
The sister, the old colleague, the investor they mentioned.
Where you met
The event, the city, the month.
Talk for a minute. Ask months later.
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Recording a note after a meeting. Talk
Walking out of the event, say who you met and what they told you. Your own words, hesitations included. No fields to fill in.
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What’s kept once you confirm. Check
FOLKO pulls out the person, the facts, the people they mentioned and what each of you promised. You read it and fix anything before it’s saved.
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Type the question, or tap the mic and say it. Ask
Type or say the question the way you’d ask a friend. You get the person and the reason — what was said, and by whom.
“Just met Daniel Okafor at the fintech meetup in Lisbon — he runs partnerships at a payments startup. They’re hiring a head of sales in Berlin. Oh, and his sister Ada is a patent attorney in London. He’ll send me their deck on Monday.”
- Person
- Daniel Okafor
- Does
- Partnerships, payments startup
- Met
- Fintech meetup, Lisbon
- Needs
- A head of sales in Berlin
- Mentioned
- His sister Ada — patent attorney, London
- He promised
- Send the deck on Monday
- Who’s hiring in Berlin?
- Who did I meet in Lisbon?
- Who knows a patent attorney?
Sometimes the right person is someone you’ve never met.
Daniel mentioned his sister once. FOLKO kept her as a person of her own — no number, no surname, just “Ada, patent attorney, London, Daniel’s sister”. Months later you ask who knows a patent attorney, and the answer comes with the route.
A contact app has no field for her. She exists in one sentence Daniel said to you.
Daniel Okafor
you met him
Ada
you’ve never met her
You don’t need the name. Or the exact word.
Search matches what you meant, not the letters you typed.
| You remember | You ask | FOLKO finds |
|---|---|---|
| “handles their contracts” | “a lawyer?” | the person who said it |
| “the logistics guy from Hamburg” | “anyone in shipping?” | Tom Becker |
| “she organises conferences in Lisbon” | “an event planner?” | Sofia Marín |
It remembers what you promised, too.
“I’ll send you the intro.” “He’ll call on Friday.” Promises in both directions come out of the note as follow-ups — with the date, when one was said — so the one you owe doesn’t quietly expire.
For people who meet more people than they can keep track of.
Founders
Every event leaves you with investors, hires and partners you’ll need later — not now.
Sales and business development
Who knows whom is the shortest route to a warm intro, and your CRM only tracks deals.
Consultants and advisors
Your next client is usually someone a past client mentioned.
Also for members of referral groups and business clubs, where “who do you know who…?” is asked every week.
What people tell you is sensitive. Here’s exactly where it goes.
On your phone
Your contacts, facts, the people they mentioned and every transcript. No account, no login.
The recording
Sent to our server to be transcribed, never written to disk there. On your phone it’s deleted once the note is saved.
When you ask
Your contacts’ facts travel with the question to be answered. We keep none of it afterwards.
Backup
You make it yourself in Settings — one ZIP file saved where you choose. It isn’t encrypted yet, so keep it somewhere private.
Where FOLKO is today
- The app — recording, review and search workBuilt
- App Store, for iPhoneFrom 4 November
- Google Play, for AndroidFrom 4 November
€11.99/ month
or €99 a year. Free for your first 20 contacts, with 30 questions a month.
Nothing is charged today — there is nothing to buy yet.
How we measured
Tested on 15 recordings read aloud from a script — 12 in Lithuanian, 3 in English, one speaker (n=15): 95% of mentioned people and 93% of facts were found, and no facts were invented, scored against answers marked by hand. Reading is clearer than real talk, so treat these as optimistic.
On iPhone and Android, from 4 November.
FOLKO comes to the App Store and Google Play on the same day. There’s nothing to sign up for before then, and no account to make after.
- iPhone App Store From 4 November
- Android Google Play From 4 November
Questions
Is there an iPhone version?
Yes. FOLKO comes to the App Store and Google Play on the same day, 4 November.
Do the people I talk about know?
You’re not recording the conversation — you record yourself afterwards. What you’re told about someone is still their information, so the rule is simple: don’t save anything you wouldn’t say to their face.
Which languages?
English and Lithuanian today. Spanish and Dutch are planned.
What happens to the recording?
It’s transcribed and never stored on our server. On your phone it’s deleted as soon as the note is saved; the transcript and facts stay.