Turn scanned business cards into contacts in Google Sheets

Upload photos of business cards and AI reads the names, numbers, and emails straight into a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each business card photo.

Pattern: Sequence (1) · Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

flowchart TD trig(("business card photos uploaded")):::human s0[("save card images to drive")]:::store s1[["extract contact details with AI"]]:::mi s2[("add contact row to sheet")]:::store trig --> s0 s0 -->|"one per each business card photo"| s1 s1 --> s2 out[/"spreadsheet row per business card"/]:::out pay{{"contacts captured without manual typing"}}:::pay s2 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff

Runs once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff

Build size

Advanced

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

Business functions

AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsSpreadsheet & Database OpsSurvey & FeedbackFile & Cloud Storage

Connects

Google DriveGoogle SheetsOpenAI

The problem it solves

After a conference or sales meeting, you're left with a stack of business cards that need typing into a spreadsheet one by one. Cards get lost or never make it into your contact list at all.

Who it fits

A sales, recruiting, or events team that collects business cards and needs them in a shared contact list fast.

How it works

You upload one or more business card photos through a simple form
The images are saved to Google Drive for record-keeping
AI reads each card and extracts the name, phone, email, and company
The cleaned-up details are added as a new row in Google Sheets

Quick estimate

What it is worth to you

Your numbers, your hourly cost. We add nothing hidden.

Business cards to enter per week

per week

Minutes to type each card into a spreadsheet

minutes

Loaded hourly cost of the person doing this

$ per hour

0Hours freed per month

0Value per year at your hourly cost

Assumes freed hours are put to other work and that AI-extracted contact details need no further correction.

What you get

A Google Sheet row for every business card, with clean, ready-to-use contact details.

What you need

A Google Workspace account and an OpenAI API key.

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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