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Notes on networking

Product updates, field notes from events, and the occasional argument about what a business card is even for.

Product

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 read
Field notes

What 40,000 scanned cards taught us about bad layouts

Vertical 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 read
Company

Parichay is now available on the web

Scanning still happens on your phone, but the sorting, tagging and exporting can now happen from a proper keyboard.

February 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Product

Designing a digital card that still feels like an introduction

A 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 read
Field notes

Running a booth at SaaSBoomi: a scanning checklist

What 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 read
Company

Where your data goes, in plain language

No 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 read
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