Lodi launches as a mobile-first contact capture and enrichment app for individual salespeople, founders, consultants, and anyone who lives in conference halls. The promise is simple: scan a business card, turn it into a structured contact record, and make that contact useful later — without pretending a lightweight app is a full CRM.
Help people who meet a lot of humans leave every room with contacts they can actually use — structured enough to follow up, light enough to live on a phone.
We bias toward honest capture: local OCR stays unlimited, and the expensive intelligence is gated by credits so variable model cost does not become your surprise bill.
Individual pros who collect cards weekly: sales, consulting, founder-led BD, investor relations, and field teams that do not want a CRM science project between events.
If your workflow is “scan now, triage Monday, export to Excel,” you are the archetype we are designing around.
Lodi is a capture + memory layer: scan, parse, label, search, export. It is not a pipeline manager, forecasting suite, or account-based everything platform.
We would rather be very good at the first hour after a handshake than mediocre at the entire revenue stack.
Unlimited local OCR so scan volume is never the scare tactic.
Credits for hosted intelligence so costs track usage.
Conference-shaped workflows because that is where cards still happen.
Personality in copy, not gimmicks in the capture path.
Local OCR stays free and unlimited so scan volume is never the scare tactic. Smart parsing, translation, voice-note intelligence, and premium research run on smart-parse credits so variable model cost stays predictable. In plain language: Lodi scans for free. Lodi thinks for a fee.
App-store distribution matches how people actually adopt tools when they are on the road. Teams and a broader web surface can follow once activation, retention, and upgrade behavior prove out.
The mascot is a nod to intelligent networking with charm — serious software, friendly guide. You will see that personality in product copy, not in gimmicks that get in the way of work.
Ship a rock-solid capture loop on iOS and Android, prove smart-parse credit economics with real conference volume, then expand intelligence depth on Premium.
Team workspaces and deeper integrations are explicitly later — we want happy solo pros before we pretend we can serve entire sales orgs.