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I lost a potentially valuable professional connection because of one business card

In 2021, I attended a peace conference in Washington, D.C. After one of the sessions, I had a great conversation with a USAID representative. He gave me his business card and asked me to email him because he would soon be visiting New York, where I was living at the time.

I lost the card.

I never managed to reconnect with him.

At the same conference, I collected around 20–25 business cards and eventually lost most of them.

That experience stayed with me and became part of the reason I started building Stakly, an AI-powered business card scanner designed to make one process extremely simple:

Scan → Review → Organize → Save.

There are already several strong business-card apps, but many are becoming increasingly complicated and moving toward full CRM functionality.

My view is different: a business-card scanner should not try to replace your CRM. It should solve the problem that comes before the CRM—turning a real-world interaction into accurate, organized digital contact data before the opportunity disappears.

We are building Stakly around that principle. I would love feedback from other founders and sales professionals:

What is the biggest problem you have after collecting business cards at conferences or meetings—data entry, organization, follow-up, CRM syncing, or something else?