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For researchers, consultants and insight teams tired of hunting through interviews, reports and notes. Keep one project in Thread, find what supports a claim, and open the original note, page or recording to check it.

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Thread: a Space called Baltic expansion with recent notes and decisions, and an answer to “Which country do we expand to first?” with two numbered sources and a Why? panel

“Where did that finding come from?”

When a client challenges a finding, you need the source, not another afternoon opening files. Test Thread on one question from one anonymised project before changing how you work.

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  1. Bring one question you actually need to answer

    An interview behind a claim, a passage in a report, or the reason a decision changed.

  2. Work through a small, anonymised example

    Save the relevant notes and files, search them, and check the source. AI answers require a local model or your own provider key; search works without either.

  3. Decide whether it fits your work

    Thread is an individual workspace today. Shared team workspaces are not yet available. Keep your existing tools while you evaluate it.

One place to put things. Every way to get them back.

Thread keeps what you saved, where it came from, and what you decided — so a question months later has something real to stand on.

  1. Capture

    01

    Keep everything together. Save notes, documents, links, and recordings in one place.

    • Notes & long-form documents
    • Links and pasted text
    • PDFs, read page by page
    • Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, JSON
    • Images, read with local OCR
    • Voice, transcribed locally
    • Notion pages you choose
  2. Understand

    02

    Keep the context with it. People, topics, and decisions stay attached — including when a decision changes.

    • @People and email addresses
    • [[Topics]] and links between notes
    • Spaces for projects and clients
    • Typed decisions, goals, constraints
    • Earlier versions of a decision
    • Duplicate and near-duplicate checks
    • Suggested titles; tags and summaries*
  3. Use

    03

    Find more than you remember. Search your knowledge, ask questions, and open answers you can verify.

    • Search everything, offline
    • Ask questions across it
    • Open the cited source
    • Jump to the page or audio moment
    • Write documents beside your sources
    • Use it from Claude or Codex (MCP)
    • Export everything, any time

* Tags and summaries need a local model or your own key. Suggestions never rewrite what you wrote.

What Thread does

Everything worth keeping, in one place.

Type a note, paste a link, drop a file, or press the mic. Thread says Saved. the moment it is on your device. Documents, images, and recordings become searchable in the background.

No filing system required. New captures land in the Inbox. Move them into a Space later — or never. Search finds them either way.

  • PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, ODF, RTF, CSV, JSON, HTML, Markdown, images and audio
  • Quick capture anywhere in Thread: ⌘ Shift Enter
  • Files up to 200 MB; originals kept unchanged

Home

Decision [Expansion]: No, Germany first — larger market, same timezone

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Recent

  • Call with @Anna Berg: German partners want a pilot in Q2.

    Note · Inbox

  • Partner terms v3.pdf

    PDF · 14 pages

  • Kickoff deck.pptx

    Slides · 22

  • Whiteboard after workshop.jpg

    Image

  • eurostat.ec.europa.eu/…/digital-economy

    Link

  • Voice note · 0:48

    Audio

You saved this before — open it

Exact duplicates are offered, never silently copied.

You don’t have to remember where you put it.

Press / and search your notes, documents, and recordings — even when you don’t remember the exact words. It runs on your device, forgives typos, and works offline.

  • PDF pages and slides keep their place; transcripts keep their timestamps
  • With a local model, search also matches by meaning — “car” finds “vehicle”

Search

pilot budjet

Showing results for pilot budget · 4 results

  • Call with @Anna Berg

    Note · Baltic expansion

    …German partners want a pilot in Q2. Budget approved up to €40k.

  • Partner terms v3.pdf

    PDF · page 4

    …the pilot phase is capped at a total budget of €40,000…

  • Voice note, 12 March

    Transcript · 03:12

    …if the pilot works we roll out to Hamburg next…

  • Expansion costs.xlsx

    Sheet · Germany

    Pilot budget · 40 000 · approved

Searched on this device

Answers you can trace.

Ask questions across your knowledge and see exactly where the answers come from. Select a number to open the note, document, or recording behind it.

Ask · Product launch

What did we agree on for the launch?

The launch was moved to October, with the initial scope reduced to three core services. The earlier plan included five, but the September review prioritized meeting the revised deadline.

  • Looked in: Product launch · 3 sources used
  • 1 earlier decision (September launch, five services) left out as no longer current
  • 1 item marked “Don’t use with AI” was not sent

Source 3 of 3

Updated launch plan

PDF · page 1

Launch date: October. Scope: three core services — onboarding, billing, and reporting. Integrations and the public API move to a later release.

Open the plan at page 1

A citation is an invitation to check.

Thread doesn’t turn model output into certainty. It keeps the evidence close enough to inspect before you rely on the answer.

Checked against evidence
Statements the sources don’t support are removed or flagged for your review.
Works without AI
With no model connected, Ask assembles an answer from your decisions and matching passages.
You decide what’s used
Items marked “Don’t use with AI” are never sent to a model. Why? shows what was.

Decisions and voice

Remember what changed. And why.

Plans evolve. Decisions change. Thread keeps the history, so you can understand what was decided, what came before, and why it matters.

The current decision is what you see now. The earlier one stays in the history, and documents keep an earlier version when what they say changes. If two statements conflict and nothing marks a correction, Thread asks you instead of guessing.

Product launch · Decision history

  1. 12 Jun

    Earlier

    Decision [Launch]: Launch in September, covering five services.

    Kept for history. Left out of current answers.

  2. 4 Sep

    Unconfirmed idea

    Hypothesis [Launch]: We might still ship all five if the design review finishes early.

    Kept as an idea, not as what was decided.

  3. 18 Sep

    Current

    Decision [Launch]: No, October — three core services, so the date holds.

    This is the current plan. It replaces the September decision.

Where things stand

  • Decision Launch in October, three core services ↗ source
  • Constraint Meet the revised deadline ↗ source
  • Goal Ship onboarding, billing, and reporting first ↗ source

Ask: “What did we agree on for the launch?”

Questions about how things stand use the October plan. Questions about what changed can still see the earlier September plan.

How decisions, goals and corrections work

An idea said out loud should not disappear.

Record from the capture box. Thread transcribes on your device — the audio is not sent to an AI provider — and every timed moment stays searchable and citable. Press play, or click a timestamp.

Product launch · September review

00:09

Original audio kept on your device · transcribed locally with Whisper

Click any timestamp to hear that moment. Edits to the transcript keep the machine version intact underneath.

Weeks later · Search

three services

Cited by Ask, too

A recording like this can be a source in an answer. Click a timestamp to hear the moment it refers to.

See voice notes in detail

Spaces and use cases

Keep context together without a filing bureaucracy.

A Space holds one project, client or area of life. It shows where things stand, keeps search and Ask inside its boundary, and can carry its own privacy rule.

  • “Keep on this device only” — never uploaded or synced
  • “Don’t use with AI” — searchable, never sent to a model
More about Spaces

Spaces

Northwind GmbH

Keep on this device only

Where things stand

  • DecisionPhase 2 scope excludes the data warehouse
  • ConstraintAll deliverables in German
  • GoalSteering committee sign-off by 30 June

Recent in this Space

  • Interview notes — CFO
  • Statement of work v2.docx
  • Voice note after workshop

Built for work that keeps coming back.

Thread is useful wherever material piles up faster than you can organise it — and you’ll need it again.

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Your knowledge. Your rules.

Keep your information local, choose when to sync, and decide whether to use AI. Thread puts you in control of your knowledge, and you can export it at any time.

Made by Infinity Consciousness Europe SIA in Latvia. When you turn sync on, that copy is hosted in the EU.

Your device

Offline — saved on this device
  • Notes, files and transcripts
  • Search index
  • Text extraction, OCR, transcription
  • Ask without AI

Sync — optional

EU-hosted, per workspace. Files travel between your devices through an end-to-end encrypted relay.

Keep on this device only

Per item or Space. Never uploaded, synced or sent to cloud AI.

AI is optional. You pick the model.

Use the AI you prefer, or use Thread without it. Leave it off, run a model on your own computer, or connect a provider you already pay for. Thread doesn’t resell AI or meter prompts.

  1. Default

    Off

    Capture, extraction, search and Ask without a model all keep working.

    Nothing is sent anywhere for AI.

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    Requests stay on that computer. No AI charge from Orbit.

  3. Your provider

    Your own key

    Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. Relevant excerpts pass through Thread’s relay to that provider.

    Your key is encrypted on the server; the provider bills you.

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Insights

Practical perspectives on work, memory & clarity.

Thoughtful, practitioner essays on decision drift, attention fragmentation, and durable knowledge systems. Written for managers, writers, and anyone juggling complex information.

Pricing

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Questions, answered.

Anything else? The docs cover every feature in detail.

How is Thread different from a notes app, Notion or an AI chat?

Notes apps and Notion are built around writing and arranging pages. AI chats keep a conversation, not your material. Thread is built around getting things back: it extracts text from files, images and voice, keeps typed decisions with their history, searches everything on your device, and answers with citations you can open. It can also import the Notion pages you choose. It is not a database wiki, and shared workspaces are not available yet.

Is Orbit Thread free?

Thread includes a 30-day full trial with every individual feature enabled. After the trial, Thread costs €10/month or €96/year. If you don’t subscribe, your Thread becomes read-only — you can still open, search and export your data at any time.

Do I need a credit card for the trial?

No. You can start the 30-day trial without a credit card. Thread only charges you if you explicitly choose a paid subscription.

What happens when my trial ends?

Nothing is deleted. Your Thread becomes read-only: you can continue to open, search and export everything. Subscribe at any time to continue adding and editing.

Are there usage limits or AI credits?

No. Thread does not meter notes, Spaces, searches or AI prompts, and does not resell AI tokens. Run a model locally or connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key; any provider charges are billed by that provider. Normal technical safeguards still apply (for example, a single file can be up to 200 MB).

Where is my data stored?

On your device first, in your browser’s private storage. With an account and sync turned on, a copy of your workspace is stored in our EU-hosted database, protected per workspace. Items and Spaces marked “Keep on this device only” are never uploaded. Payments are handled by Paddle; we never see your card details.

Can I try Thread without an account?

Yes. Without an account, Thread runs on one device — nothing is synced, and the 30-day trial has not started. Create an account when you want sync across devices; the trial starts then, and nothing already on the device is lost.

Can I cancel?

Yes. When you cancel, paid access continues until the end of the current billing period. After that, Thread becomes read-only. Your data remains available to read, search and export.

What is Thread Team?

Thread Team will add shared workspaces, roles and permissions, and team memory. It is not available yet; it is planned at €15 per user/month or €144 per user/year. Join the waitlist in the pricing section and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.

Is Thread part of Orbit?

Yes. Thread is the knowledge workspace in the Orbit family, alongside Orbit Cue, Orbit Grow and Orbit Signal.

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