Why we built the AI scanner around field extraction, not OCR
Raw OCR gives you a wall of text. We wanted fields you could save without retyping a single character — here's how that changed the product.
March 3, 2026 · 6 min readProduct updates, field notes from events, and the occasional argument about what a business card is even for.
Raw OCR gives you a wall of text. We wanted fields you could save without retyping a single character — here's how that changed the product.
March 3, 2026 · 6 min readVertical text, gold foil, two phone numbers with no labels. The cards that break scanners are rarely the ones you'd expect.
February 18, 2026 · 5 min readScanning still happens on your phone, but the sorting, tagging and exporting can now happen from a proper keyboard.
February 2, 2026 · 3 min readA link isn't a handshake. Some notes on the small interactions that make handing over a Parichay card feel personal instead of transactional.
January 21, 2026 · 4 min readWhat our own sales team does differently now, after three straight events of clearing card piles the same evening instead of the following week.
January 8, 2026 · 5 min readNo dark patterns, no vendor lock-in. A walkthrough of exactly what happens to a contact from the moment it's scanned.
December 19, 2025 · 4 min readSales professional, founder, corporate employee or someone who just goes to a lot of events — every introduction is worth keeping. Parichay keeps them.