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Live Networking: Capture Everyone Who Scans Your Card at an Event

How Wallat's Live Networking mode works on the floor of a conference or trade show — from tapping Start, to triaging who you met, to follow-ups waiting in your inbox when you tap Stop.

October 21, 2026 · 8 min read

At most events, the exchange is lopsided. Someone scans your QR code, your profile opens on their phone, and they walk away with your details. You walk away with nothing — no name, no note, no way to tell the person who asked three sharp questions apart from the person who scanned out of politeness.

Wallat is a networking intelligence platform built around two questions: what do they know about me? and what do I know about them? Your card and profile website answer the first. Live Networking is built to answer the second, and to fix that imbalance. It turns your phone into a capture cockpit for the length of an event, so the exchange runs both ways: they get your card, and you get a record of who you met.

It's designed for the busiest days — a trade-show booth or a conference hall where you meet hundreds of people. The controls are deliberately simple: show your QR, snap a card, tap hot, warm or cold. Everything else — reading the card, building the contact, syncing it to your contacts — happens in the background.

Step 1: Tap Start, and your card becomes the event's front door

Open Networking in the Wallat app on your phone and tap Start networking. That opens a session — an Event — and puts your card's QR code full-screen on your phone, so people can scan it straight off your screen without you digging through your Wallet app.

• The event names itself. If you've set up a campaign that's running right now — say, a three-day conference — the session is named after it automatically ("Web Summit – Day 2"). Otherwise it gets a readable, local-time default. You can rename it any time, including after it's over.
• Nothing changes for the person scanning. They point their camera at the code and your profile opens in their browser. No app, no sign-up, nothing to install.
• Going live is always a deliberate tap. Capture only runs while a session is open. Stop it and it stops.

Step 2: Every scan lands on your roster as it happens

While you're live, each in-person scan shows up in My Contacts on your phone, newest first. You can turn on scan alerts so your phone buzzes when someone scans, which is useful when it's in your pocket between conversations.

A fresh scan is anonymous at first: you see when it happened and the approximate city and device type, not a name. It becomes a person when one of three things happens:

1. You tap it and add what you know — the name you just heard, an email or phone number, a quick note ("wants a demo in January").
2. They leave their details. Turn on the visitor form and, a few seconds after your profile opens, the visitor is offered a short "Met me just now? Save my details" prompt. You choose which fields it asks for.
3. You scan their card back. More on that below.

Step 3: Scan their card, paper or digital

Plenty of people you meet will still hand you a paper card or show you a badge. Tap Scan a card and photograph it. Wallat reads it and adds the person to the same roster:

• QR codes on the card are decoded directly — including vCard codes, which carry the contact details inside the code itself.
• Printed text — name, title, company, email, phone — is read with AI text recognition when there's no QR to go on.
• Another Wallat card resolves straight from their live profile, so the details are exactly what they published, with no transcription errors.

You don't wait for each card to be read: scan the next one while the last is still processing, and each person fills in on your roster as Wallat finishes. The photo of the card is kept on the contact, so you can always check the original.

Step 4: Tap Stop, and the follow-up is already started

When the event's over, tap Stop. On Pro Intel, three things follow automatically:

• An event summary in your inbox — how many people you captured, how many you can actually reach, your hot/warm/cold split, the companies that came up most, and how many follow-ups are drafted. The numbers are counted first; AI only turns them into readable sentences.
• An acknowledgement for each contact — a short "great to meet you" email sent automatically or with one click, plus follow-up drafts you can send by email or WhatsApp. They're written from facts you have — the person's name, when you met, which event, their company if you know it — not from a conversation the AI imagines. Edit before you send.
• A one-line "who you met" recap on each person ("You met Priya at Web Summit – Day 2 in Lisbon"), so a list of names three weeks later still means something.

Each contact is also tagged with the event it was captured at. In your People list you can filter to a single event and export exactly that roster to CSV for your CRM.

Six months later: find the forensic auditor you met once

Your phone's contacts app stores a name and a number. Six months after an event, "Mason" tells you nothing — and when you suddenly need a forensic auditor, there's no way to know you met one, short of digging through a shoebox of cards.

Wallat keeps the whole picture for every contact you capture:

• Everything on the card — name, title, company, contact details and all the other text Wallat reads off it, plus the photo itself.
• Where you met — the event, the day, and the city.
• What you thought — your notes and your hot/warm/cold mark.
• What their website says — turn on website enrichment (it's off until you opt in) and Wallat reads the website on their card, or their company's site from a work email, and suggests tags such as role, company and seniority for you to confirm. It adds context; it doesn't overwrite what was on their card.

All of it is searchable — in plain language. Ask "Is there a forensic auditor in my contacts?" and Mr. Mason comes up, along with the event where you met him and the note you left that day. Your contacts stop being a list of names and become a network you can actually use.

For teams: pool contacts from company-sponsored events

When a company sends five people to a trade show, the leads usually end up scattered across five phones. On the Teams plan, an admin can create a shared pool for a company-sponsored event, and members choose to attach their session to it when they tap Start.

• It's opt-in at every level. Pooling is off by default for a team, and members attach each event explicitly; anything they don't attach stays private.
• Members are told before they start. The Start screen says plainly that contacts captured in that event will be visible to the team's admins.
• Admins decide what's shared — contact details and private notes are separate settings, per pool. Each contact shows who met them and at which event, and likely duplicates across colleagues are flagged.

Over a few events, that adds up to something most companies don't have: one searchable index of everyone your people have met — customers, leads, suppliers and specialists, with what each of them actually does. When the company needs a particular service, an admin can simply ask — "Who do we know in forensic accounting?" — and see which contacts match, who on the team met them, and who to ask for an introduction.

A short event checklist

1. Before you leave: publish your card and, if it's a multi-day event, set it up as a campaign so each day's session is named for you.
2. At the venue: tap Start, keep your QR on screen, and turn on scan alerts.
3. After each conversation: open the newest scan, add a name or note, and mark it hot, warm or cold. Ten seconds each.
4. For anyone with a paper card: tap Scan a card.
5. When you leave: tap Stop, then work through the drafts while you still remember the faces.

Which plan includes what

• Pro — the Live Networking cockpit and a live feed of in-person scans (when, roughly where, and on what device), plus a limited number of card scans a day using standard text recognition. Pro also includes a set number of updates to your card and profile before you're asked to upgrade.
• Pro Intel — unlimited card scans a day, read by our highest-accuracy AI, and the full named roster: names, contact details, notes and hot/warm/cold triage for everyone you capture, searchable in plain language by what they do. Plus the visitor form, AI follow-up drafts, "who you met" recaps, the post-event summary email, and effectively unlimited card and profile updates, with the full intelligence suite: heatmaps, scroll analysis, session replay and the complete template library.
• Teams ($13 per user a month, minimum 3 seats) — shared contact pools for company-sponsored events and a company-wide searchable contact index, managed by your admins.

Live Networking isn't included in the free Starter plan. Full details are on the pricing page.