Google Drive is a productivity platform built for creation and collaboration. It is where you draft memos and build models. Colabra is a diligence platform built for review and audit. You use Drive to write the investment thesis; you use Colabra to verify the underlying assets.
Drive is designed for "live editing." It is excellent for multiple people writing a document at the same time. But it is poor at "static review." It lacks the tools to tag risks, link evidence to checklists, or manage a complex legal review process across thousands of PDFs.
Colabra is designed for "forensic review." We provide a sterile environment to mark up external documents. We don't change the file; we layer intelligence on top of it. We link specific clauses to specific risks, creating an immutable audit trail of your findings.
In Drive, you find risks by searching for keywords ("change of control"). It is manual and error-prone. In Colabra, we push risks to you. Our Flag lens automatically surfaces off-market clauses and liabilities across the entire data room, ensuring you don't miss a risk just because you forgot to search for it.
Mixing target company data with your internal Google Drive creates a compliance mess. It pollutes your internal search results and creates data residency issues. Colabra keeps the deal data isolated in a secure, SOC 2 compliant workspace that is separate from your corporate knowledge base.