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Attio works with Outlook. You connect your Outlook account, and your email and calendar are synced into Attio, where you carry on in a workspace you configure yourself. Frida starts from the other end: it reads your Outlook mailbox and builds a board of your deals from the conversations.
AttioOutlook is synced in
Outlook
Workspace
PeopleHenrik MøllerLone Krag
CompaniesNordlys BygAster
DealsCustom objectsyou build the model
Fridabuilt from Outlook
Outlook
Contact
AsterCall Tue.
Negotiation
Nordlys BygSuggestionMeeting Wed.
Havn & CoReply ready
Agreement
Lone KragCall Fri.
The film shows Outlook being synced into a workspace you configure yourself, beside a board that is built from Outlook.
Attio: Outlook email and calendar are synced into a workspace
Frida: the board is built from your Outlook
Attio’s limits for Microsoft 365 are given as Attio’s help page states them
In short
Choose Attio if …
you want to configure your own data model
you want workflows and reporting in the same workspace
the CRM should be where the whole team works, with Outlook as one source among several
Choose Frida if …
most of your sales are conversations in Outlook
you want the board built for you instead of setting up a CRM first
an enquiry from a new customer should be suggested as a deal before you have replied
How Attio works with Outlook
Attio can sync Microsoft 365 Outlook and Outlook Calendar. Once the account is connected, your email content and calendar events are brought into Attio.
It is a sync into Attio. You work with the records in your workspace, and Outlook is the source they come from. The limits on what can be synced are below, as Attio itself describes them.
Attio’s Microsoft 365 sync supports only Microsoft-hosted Outlook accounts. Shared inboxes and on-premise or third-party-hosted Exchange are not supported. Only Inbox and Sent folders sync; private calendar events are excluded.
You can send email from Attio through a synced Microsoft 365 account.
Attio presents itself as the CRM for what it calls agentic revenue, with a data model, workflows, and reporting and forecasts as parts of the platform. Outlook is a source that is synced in. In Frida, Outlook is the starting point and the board is the only thing that has to be built. Frida does that.
In Attio
A data model you configure yourself.
Workflows as a part of the platform.
Reporting and forecasts as a part of the platform.
In Frida
The board is built once the mailbox is connected. You do not set up a model first.
A new enquiry is suggested as a deal, even before you have replied.
The stages are there from the start: Contact, Negotiation, Agreement, Payment, Active, Won and Lost.
Court shows who wrote last, so you can see whose move it is.
Attio has a data model you configure, workflows, and reporting and forecasts. Frida has none of the three, and that is what you are choosing to do without.
In Frida you cannot change the data model or add custom objects.
Frida has no workflows that you build yourself.
Frida has no reporting and no forecasting.
Whatever you compare it with, Frida has no marketing automation, customer-service desk or outbound email sequences either.
Attio brings Outlook into a CRM you shape. Frida builds a board from Outlook. The rows show what that means in practice, and where Attio itself states each Attio fact.
Criteria
Frida
Attio
Source
Where your CRM lives
In a board that Frida builds from your Outlook.
In an Attio workspace. Attio’s app directory lists Outlook as an official integration built by Attio, and it syncs email and calendar in.
A free plan and paid plans. The amount is in the price block under the table.
Attio has a free plan. Plus costs 39 euro per user per month billed monthly and 31 euro billed annually, as shown on Attio’s pricing page as of October 2026.
Written by Frida from vendors’ public documentation, rather than hands-on testing of every tool. Frida sells one of the products. Features and plans can change.
Yes. Attio can sync Microsoft 365 Outlook and Outlook Calendar. You connect the account under Account settings in Attio, and after that your email content and calendar events are brought into your workspace. Only Outlook accounts hosted by Microsoft 365 can be synced. Shared inboxes and Exchange that runs on-premise or at a third party are not supported.
Does Attio create contacts automatically from my email?
Yes, but not all of them. With the default setting, selective creation, Attio makes a person record for those you have emailed yourself or had a calendar event with, and a company record for their email domain. A person who has only written to you, and whom you have not answered, is not created. You can change the setting to all contacts or none.
Does Attio sync my Outlook calendar?
Yes. Outlook Calendar is one of the sources Attio can sync, and people from your calendar events are created as records by default, together with their companies. Private calendar events are not synced. This applies to accounts hosted by Microsoft 365; Outlook accounts on on-premise or third-party-hosted Exchange cannot be connected.
Does Attio have an add-in inside Outlook?
Not as far as its documentation shows. Attio’s help centre lists a browser extension, a desktop app and mobile apps, but no add-in for Outlook. The connection to Outlook is a sync: Attio’s app directory lists Outlook as an official integration built by Attio, and it brings email and calendar into Attio. So you work in Attio, not in a pane in Outlook.
What does Attio cost?
As of October 2026, Attio’s pricing page (attio.com/pricing) showed a free plan and Plus as the smallest paid plan: 39 euro per user per month billed monthly, or 31 euro billed annually. The amounts were shown in euro and may appear in another currency for you, so check the page before you do the sums. Frida’s price is in the price block above these questions.
Is Frida an Attio alternative?
Only if what you want is an overview of the sales in your Outlook without setting up a CRM first. Frida builds the board from the customer conversations, suggests new deals and stage moves and has reply drafts ready for you to approve. If you want custom objects, workflows and reporting, Attio is the right choice, because Frida does not have them.
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Follow a deal from its first email to new information and an updated next step. See what Frida brings together for you and what needs your decision. Fictional example data; no AI analysis or sending in the demo.
Frida finds the sales opportunities in your Outlook conversations, keeps them up to date and prepares the follow-up. You type nothing in, and nothing is sent before you have read it.
