CardSync
AI-Powered Business Card Scanner
How StackLab eliminated 100% of post-event contact entry by building an AI system that scans, extracts, and automatically follows up with new contacts.
The Problem
Every sales professional, founder, and conference attendee knows the problem: a pile of business cards collected at an event that never gets properly entered into a CRM, and a string of introductory follow-up emails that never get sent because the manual data entry step is tedious enough to be perpetually postponed. Research suggests that over 80% of business cards are discarded within a week. The contacts stay on the table — literally — while business development opportunities evaporate.
The Solution
CardSync removes that friction entirely. A user photographs a business card with their phone camera. Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash model processes the image, extracts all relevant contact data — name, company, title, email, phone number — with high accuracy, and formats it for immediate use.
From there, CardSync triggers a personalized introductory email and WhatsApp message to the new contact automatically. Within minutes of a handshake, the contact is logged, a message is sent, and the user can move on to the next conversation. The entire post-event pipeline runs without a single manual step.
How It Works
Card Capture
User photographs a business card. The image is sent to the Gemini 2.5 Flash API with a structured extraction prompt.
AI Extraction
Gemini's multimodal capability processes the image, identifies and extracts all contact fields, and returns structured JSON — name, company, role, email, phone.
Contact Logging
The extracted data is saved to the user's contact database, with the card image attached for reference.
Automated Outreach
A personalized introductory email and WhatsApp message are generated and sent to the new contact automatically — without the user typing a single word.
Key Technical Decisions
Roadmap
- OCR contact extraction
- Auto email + WhatsApp send
- Contact database and card image storage
- AI-generated meeting notes per contact
- Automated follow-up reminders
- Team-shared contact database
- CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho)
- Analytics on follow-up conversion rates
- SaaS commercial launch