Turn scanned business cards into organized contact records

Upload a photo of a business card and the system reads it, extracts the contact details, and saves them for you automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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A stepAn outside serviceA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsDocument Processing & OCRSurvey & Feedback
Connects
Mistral AIOpenAI

The problem it solves

Retyping names, titles, emails, and phone numbers off a stack of business cards after a conference or meeting is tedious and easy to get wrong. Cards pile up on your desk until you finally sit down and enter them all by hand.

Who it fits

Sales reps, recruiters, and anyone who collects business cards at events and wants contacts entered without typing.

How it works

  1. Starts when you upload a photo or scan of a business card
  2. Reads the text off the card using an OCR service
  3. An AI reads the extracted text and sorts it into name, company, email, phone, and address fields
  4. Checks the structured data against a template to make sure nothing is missing
  5. Saves or updates the contact record, using the email address to avoid duplicates
Quick estimate

What it is worth to you

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

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0Hours freed per month
0Value per year at your hourly cost

Assumes the cards would otherwise be typed in by hand and that freed hours are put to other work.

What you get

A structured, saved contact record for each business card, ready to search or export.

What you need

An OCR API subscription 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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