Leave the expo hall with a contact list you can actually use

Photograph a badge, dictate a sentence, and the whole booth crew sees it on their own phones as it happens.

Two weeks after a conference: "Did you talk to Sarah? I can't remember her last name or her company." "I think Bill did." And the one person who received the official scan list is on PTO.

Badge Scanner is built for that moment. A photo of a badge becomes a contact. A dictated note says why you'd follow up. Everyone working the event shares one list, and every record shows who captured it. It works one-handed, standing up, in bad lighting, on wifi that barely works.

How it works Getting started

What it does

Photo in, details out

AI reads the name, title and company off the badge. You dictate a note while AI does its OCR work asynchronously in the background while you keep the conversation going.

Notes you'll actually reread

Dictate what you talked about and why it matters. The note starts a threaded discussion on the contact, so a colleague can add to it during the event rather than in a chat two weeks later.

One list for the whole crew

Contacts belong to your company, not to the event operator. Colleagues join from a link at the booth in seconds, and everyone sees new contacts as they're added. Every record shows who captured it and who added what.

Works offline

Photos and typed details are saved in the app the moment you capture them. Reading the badge waits until there's a signal, so nobody is left standing in front of you while the app waits on the network. Scan several badges quickly for those conversations with multiple people.

LinkedIn, with you in charge

The app builds a LinkedIn search from the badge and opens it. You find the person and tap Connect yourself. Copy the profile URL and update the contact in Badge Scanner.

A list you can work through

After the event, filter by follow-up flag, company, day, or whether a LinkedIn profile is attached. Export to a spreadsheet file, or to your phone's contacts, and copy a ready-made summary into an email.

What the official badge scanner gets wrong

The scanner events hand to exhibitors gets the scan right. Everything after the scan is where it falls down.

Notes are optional, so they're usually missing. Nobody types notes on an old, assigned iPod mid-conversation. The scan records that a person stopped by, not why you cared.
Nobody knows who talked to whom. The scan belongs to the booth, so "who talked to her?" has no answer.
The list arrives late. You turn the iPod in, wait for the list, and it's emailed to one person, who may be away for the whole follow-up window.

Badge Scanner fixes each one: your own phone, a dictated note in the ten seconds after the conversation, a name on every record, and a list the whole crew can see from the first contact in real time.

What the official scanner has that this doesn't: the attendee list. Its scans match the event's own records, so names are spelled correctly and there are often contact details the badge doesn't show. Badge Scanner reads only what's printed. Matching the official list against what your crew captured, combining their data with your notes, is the obvious next step. It isn't built yet.

It's other people's information

Every record here is a real person's name, employer and badge photo, and it's treated that way.

Delete means delete. One action removes a contact completely, photo included.
Contacts belong to your company. Someone who stops working the booth loses access and takes nothing with them.
Join links work like passwords. They expire, you can cancel them from the event screen, and each one opens a single event only.
Export gives you everything, so there's never a reason to hang on to data that should be deleted.

LinkedIn is used only in the ways LinkedIn allows: no scraping and no automated invitations. That also protects the account whose network you're trying to grow.

See the ten-second capture

What a day at the booth looks like, from setting up the event to following up.

How it works