Quido launches its mobile app for iOS and Android

Quido comes to the smartphone. The mobile app for iOS and Android brings the same financial analysis as the platform to the device that follows the professional out of the office.

Anyone working on private equity, M&A and advisory deals is not always at their desk. Between a meeting and a trip, having the analysis already available on the platform within reach shortens the time it takes to reach a decision.

Access is restricted to client organisations, with the same profile as the platform and no extra steps.

Quido is available today on the App Store and Google Play.

What the app contains

The app brings the core of daily work to the phone: company search, reading one-pagers, and following deal flow updates. It is a perimeter designed for time spent away from the desk, where quick answers matter more than long sessions.

Search is the platform's own: start from a company name or from the criteria that matter, and arrive at the profile. The one-pager is the summary document the platform generates in the firm's format, readable straight from the phone without first exporting it somewhere else. Updates concern the team's deal flow — the transactions the group is working on.

The criterion behind this perimeter is simple: what gets consulted goes on the phone, while what gets built stays where it is done best, on the platform.

The distinction is worth holding on to when assessing the app. Consulting means framing a short question and receiving a self-contained answer: who is this company, how is it doing, where are we with it. Building means relating several objects to one another — a set of companies, several financial years, several views — and producing something that did not exist before. The first sits well in one hand; the second asks for two screens and an hour in front of them.

A profession practised on the move

It is worth starting from something anyone working on transactions recognises: private capital is an itinerant profession.

Target companies get visited. Management meetings happen on site, not over video, once a deal is properly under way. The intermediaries — advisers, accountants, banks — are met in person. Industry events concentrate into a few hours a number of conversations that would take weeks from the office. And between one commitment and the next there is travel, which is available time but unequipped time.

The result is that a significant share of work questions arise away from the desk. They are not complex questions: who controls this company, how large is it, what has happened recently, where are we with that deal. They are exactly the questions the platform answers in seconds, and until now they could only be answered by getting back in front of a laptop.

That asymmetry produces a widespread and inefficient habit: writing it down. The name goes in a notebook or a phone note, and gets checked later. The cost of that habit is not the checking itself — it is everything that happens in between. The conversation in which the name came up closed without the question that could have been asked. The decision on how to proceed slipped by a day. Sometimes the note just stays there.

What a one-pager is, and why it matters in your pocket

The one-pager is the summary document the platform generates automatically on a company, in the firm's format: the sheet a professional would carry with them if they had had time to prepare it.

Its usefulness lies in density. A one-pager is built to be read in a couple of minutes and to hold what is needed to sustain a conversation: how the company is positioned, its main economic and balance sheet figures, its ownership structure, the relevant recent developments. It is not a diligence pack: it is the document that keeps you from arriving unprepared.

It is also the format that best survives the move to a phone, which is why it sits inside the app's perimeter. A profile spread across several views, with tables side by side and visual comparisons, loses on a small screen. A document meant to be read top to bottom does not.

Before the app, having a one-pager on the move meant one of three things: having exported it to PDF and emailed it to yourself, having saved it on the phone in a folder you cannot find at the crucial moment, or having asked a colleague still at the office. All three work; all three require having foreseen that the document would be needed. The app removes foresight from the equation.

Deal flow updates

The second thing most often consulted from outside is not about a company: it is about the team's work.

The shared deal flow keeps the group's transactions on a single board, with custom stages, filters, ownership and follow-ups. It is how a firm avoids the state of a transaction living only in the head of the person running it.

What reaches the phone is the part that matters when you are out: knowing whether something has moved. It is a light form of oversight, with a useful side effect for teamwork — whoever comes back from a trip does not have to reconstruct two days of updates, because they watched them go by.

Why an app, rather than just the site on a phone

The question deserves an explicit answer, because the difference is not cosmetic.

The first reason is launch. An app opens in one gesture, from the home screen, without going through a browser, a tab left open yesterday, or an expired session. In the minutes before a meeting that difference is the whole difference.

The second is ergonomics. An interface designed for a phone has target sizes, gestures and reading hierarchies built for a thumb and a small screen. A table designed for a monitor, shrunk to five inches, is legible only nominally.

The third is presence. An installed app is a reminder: it sits among the other work apps and opens when needed. A tool reachable only by typing an address gets used less, however good it is.

A deal's life cycle, seen from the phone

A useful way to place the app is to walk through the phases of a transaction and ask, for each, what actually needs to be in hand when you are out.

In origination what is needed is recognising a name. Opportunities come up in conversation — at an event, in a meeting, talking to an intermediary — and the question is always the same: which company are we talking about, how large is it, who controls it. That is a quick-search and one-pager question, not a diligence one.

In screening what is needed is a first measure. Structured comparison stays in the office, but the mental sift starts much earlier, and having the summary while the conversation is still open changes the quality of the questions that follow.

In due diligence the app helps least, and it is right to say so. Diligence needs screen space, time and side-by-side comparison: it is the phase where the platform has no substitute.

In monitoring what is needed is continuity. Knowing whether something has moved on the deal flow is the classic task that fits into five minutes of waiting and otherwise slips from week to week.

The resulting picture is consistent with the perimeter chosen: the app covers the phases where the question is short and the time is scarce, and leaves to the platform the one where the opposite holds.

Situations where something changes

The usefulness of a mobile tool is not measured in hours of use, but in the moments when it saves you from having to postpone.

Before a meeting. The ten minutes in the waiting room are when you check who you are about to talk to: how large the company is, how it has moved recently, who controls it. A one-pager read on the phone answers the question while there is still time to use the answer.

Travelling. Between a train and a taxi, the work available is reading. Going back over a profile, revisiting a one-pager, checking whether anything has moved on the deal flow are all good uses of that time, and would otherwise pile up on the desk.

During a conversation. When a name comes up in a meeting, the choice is between noting it and checking later, or checking now. The second is only possible if the tool is at hand.

Out of hours. Decisions do not always wait until Monday. Being able to glance at a company without opening a laptop is the difference between answering and deferring.

Sitting next to a colleague. Showing a figure to the person beside you is more natural from a phone than from a laptop open on a crowded table. It is a small, recurring detail: turning the screen towards someone has no practical equivalent when the screen weighs a kilo and a half and is plugged into the wall.

What it replaces in today's habits

A new tool is best judged by what it removes, not only by what it adds. The habits the mobile app replaces are three, and all of them are familiar.

The first is emailing yourself. The document needed tomorrow gets exported and sent to your own inbox so it can be found on the phone. That works as long as you correctly predicted which document would be needed; it stops working precisely when the conversation takes an unforeseen turn — which is, after all, why meetings happen.

The second is asking a colleague. Whoever is out messages whoever is in and asks for the figure. It is the most reliable of the three and the most expensive: it occupies two people, depends on the second one being free, and moves the wait onto the first.

The third is deferring. Note it down, check later. It is the most common habit, because it demands nothing of anyone at the time, and it carries the cost that is hardest to see — the cost is not the time spent checking, it is the question that went unasked while asking it was still useful.

None of these is bad practice. They are sensible adaptations to the absence of a tool. The app simply makes them unnecessary in most cases.

Access and the rules that stay the same

Access is restricted to client organisations, with the same profile as the platform and no extra steps. There is no separate sign-up for the app and no second permissions perimeter: whoever signs in sees on mobile what the organisation is allowed to see.

The data handling conditions that apply to the platform are unchanged as well: European infrastructure, data encrypted at rest and in transit, GDPR compliance, and no use of client data for model training.

How the personal data of app users is processed is set out in the dedicated privacy policy.

A note on iOS and Android parity

The app is available on both iOS and Android, and that deserves a line, because in professional firms the device estate is not uniform. Work phones often follow personal preference, and a tool available on only one platform introduces an awkward distinction between colleagues: those who can use it and those who cannot.

Publishing on both stores removes the problem at the root. Nobody has to know which device a colleague carries before suggesting they open a profile, and adoption inside the team does not run into an obstacle that has nothing to do with the work.

What stays on the platform

The app's perimeter is deliberate, and it is worth saying what it does not contain.

Structured work stays in the web interface: multi-criteria search with the full set of filters, the complete company profile with reclassified accounts, KPIs and peer comparison, the shared deal flow board with stages, ownership and follow-ups, and generating reports in the firm's format.

These are activities that need screen space, side-by-side comparison and long sessions. Compressing them into five inches would not make them more accessible; it would make them more laborious. The choice was to take the consultative part to the phone and leave the constructive part where it works best.

How it sits alongside the other ways into Quido

Quido is reachable through several channels today, and it helps to see them together.

• Web interface — the home of structured work: multi-criteria search, the full company profile, shared deal flow, reports in the firm's format.
• Mobile app — consultation out of the office: company search, one-pagers, deal flow updates.
• AI agent in the platform — sector analysis, shortlists and summary memos, with structured, sourced answers.
• Quido MCP — the same data inside compatible AI assistants, read-only, described in Quido MCP: private company data inside AI.

All of these channels are included in the fee. Quido's commercial model is a fixed annual charge with unlimited users across the firm, unlimited searches, analyses and reports, and MCP, mobile and API access included. There are no additional licences for using the app, and no credit packs that get consumed by reading a one-pager on a phone.

That detail has a practical consequence for adoption. When an additional channel carries an additional cost, its spread within a firm becomes a decision to be justified; when it is included, it spreads on usefulness alone.

How to introduce the app in a firm

Adopting a mobile tool follows a different dynamic from adopting a platform. Some practical observations for whoever has to introduce it to a team.

No project is required. Access uses the same profile as the platform, and there is nothing to configure. Existing users download the app and sign in.

Start with whoever travels most. The value shows up in the situations described above, and those are not evenly distributed across a team. Whoever spends most time out feels the benefit within days, and becomes the natural channel through which the habit spreads.

The right moment to try it is before a real meeting. A test at the desk, with the laptop open alongside, tells you nothing: at the desk the platform is better anyway. The test that counts happens in the ten minutes before a meeting.

There is no spending decision to take. The app is included in the fee, as are MCP and API access, so its spread inside the firm does not go through a budget approval.

The time it wins back, and the time it does not

It is worth being precise about what a mobile tool can and cannot do, because that is the difference between a correct expectation and a disappointment.

It does not win back analysis time. Reading a set of accounts, comparing them with peers and judging whether the story holds demands the same attention wherever it is done, and it demands a large screen.

It wins back waiting time and deferral time. Waiting is dead time: the room before a meeting, the journey, the gap between two calls. Deferral is more expensive and less visible: it is the question that arises outside the office, gets noted down, and finds its answer hours or days later — when it is often no longer needed, or needed by somebody else.

The app acts on those two. It is a real and bounded gain, and describing it that way is more honest than promising a transformation in how people work.

What this announcement is not

As with any release, the perimeter is worth stating.

It is not a change to the data perimeter: the information reachable from the app is the platform's, under the same access rules.

It is not a change to commercial terms: the app is included in the annual fee and introduces no licences, modules or additional consumption.

It is not the announcement of a "mobile-first" platform: the web interface remains the home of structured work, and no capability moves from desktop to phone.

It is not a commitment on future features: this article describes what the app contains today.

Frequently asked questions

Which devices is it available on?

iOS and Android. The app can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.

Who can use it?

Client organisations, with the same profile as the platform and no extra steps. There is no separate sign-up.

What can be done in the app?

Search companies, read one-pagers and follow deal flow updates.

Does it cost extra?

No. The mobile app is included in the annual fee, as are MCP and API access.

Does it replace the platform?

No. Structured work — multi-criteria search with the full set of filters, the complete company profile, shared deal flow, generating reports in the firm's format — stays in the web interface.

Does it work the same on iPhone and Android?

Yes. The app is published on both stores and access is identical. No team member is left out because of the device they carry.

How does it relate to Quido MCP?

They are distinct, complementary channels. The app brings consultation to the phone; Quido MCP brings the same data, read-only, inside compatible AI assistants. Both are included in the fee.

How is data handled?

As on the platform: European infrastructure, data encrypted at rest and in transit, GDPR compliance, and no use of client data for model training. The detail on app users' personal data is in the dedicated policy.

Does the firm need to configure anything?

No, access uses the same profile as the platform. Setup, training and support remain included in the fee.

In summary

The Quido mobile app for iOS and Android brings the consultative part of the platform to the phone: company search, one-pagers and deal flow updates. Access is restricted to client organisations, with the same profile as the platform, and it is included in the annual fee alongside MCP and API access.

Quido is available today on the App Store and Google Play. For background on the company: the €1.6 million funding round. Questions on sources, security, pricing and integrations are answered on the FAQ page.