A hosted collaboration layer for Obsidian teams that gives IT admins plugin allowlisting, SSO, and E2E-encrypted real-time co-editing inside the native app
Obsidian has no native team collaboration or enterprise IT controls. The two main third-party plugins (Relay, Peerdraft) are fragile, lack E2E encryption on multi-user vaults, and have no IT admin controls. The HN thread 'Future of Obsidian Plugins' (452 points, 177 comments) surfaced healthcare and enterprise users explicitly blocked from deploying Obsidian due to unvetted community plugins. The Forum feature request 'Add Enterprise Control for Plugins and Sync' (20 replies, active through April 2026) quotes one user: 'literally the only thing blocking my company of 40,000 employees from considering Obsidian.' Obsidian's roadmap lists both Multiplayer and Obsidian for Work as planned but no ship date. Third-party opportunity: a middleware SaaS that sits between an org's MDM/SSO and Obsidian, enforces a plugin allowlist via a private registry, and provides a CRDT sync server with E2E encryption and admin audit log. Priced per seat for enterprises.
A web app that adds SSO, admin controls, and encrypted real-time co-editing to Obsidian for teams
865 ▲Score Breakdown
Social Proof 4 sources
Gap Assessment
Real gap. Obsidian has 10,000+ orgs using it but zero enterprise IT controls today. Roadmap items exist but no timeline; healthcare/regulated companies cannot deploy without MDM-style control. Relay and Peerdraft lack SSO, admin controls, or E2E for vaults. Obsidian's 'private plugins for teams' announcement in May 2026 is directional but does not cover MDM, SSO, or real-time co-editing. No third-party has shipped the complete stack. The HN thread engagement (452 pts) confirms broad developer awareness of the gap.