Turn scanned business cards into enriched CRM-ready contacts

Snap a photo of a business card and get a complete, research-backed contact record in your spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Transient Trigger (23)

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Starts itAn outside serviceA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
CRM & Sales PipelineSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveGoogle SheetsGoogle GeminiOpenAI
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The problem it solves

After a conference or networking event, you're stuck typing names, titles, and phone numbers from a stack of business cards into a spreadsheet or CRM. You still don't know much about the company, so follow-up gets delayed or generic.

Who it fits

Sales professionals and business development teams who collect business cards at events.

How it works

  1. You take a photo of a business card and upload it to a folder
  2. AI reads the image and pulls out the name, title, company, email, and phone number
  3. The system searches the web for information about the contact's company
  4. AI summarizes the company's industry, size, and description
  5. The complete contact record is saved to a Google Sheet
What you get

Contacts who arrive in your CRM fully researched

You get a complete contact record with company background pulled together from a simple photo of a business card.

What you get

A Google Sheets row with the contact's details plus a short company profile, ready for follow-up.

What you need

A Google Drive account, a Google Sheets account, a Serper API key, and Google Gemini and OpenAI API keys.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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