Offline-first. No rental hardware. Works at every booth.
Trade show lead retrieval
that actually converts.
The average trade show rep collects 120 cards and follows up on 8.
NexaLink scans paper cards with OCR, captures booth interactions, scores leads by what happened at the booth, and drafts follow-ups before the hall closes. The phone in your pocket replaces the rental scanner — and the 112-lead blind spot.
The booth workflow, rebuilt around the scan
Rental scanners capture the contact. NexaLink captures the contact, the booth interaction, the qualification, and the draft email.
01
Scan at the booth
OCR the paper card, tap NFC, or share your QR. Works with zero bars of signal — the exhibit hall won't slow you down.
02
Score the booth interaction
One-tap qualification: hot, demo booked, spec sheet requested, budget confirmed. The score rides with the lead into your CRM.
03
AI drafts the post-booth email
Within 5 minutes of scan, an email is drafted with the booth context and the qualification tag — ready to send before the next prospect walks up.
04
Export to sales before wheels-up
End-of-day push to Salesforce, HubSpot, or CSV — sorted by lead score so the SDR team attacks the hot list first on Monday.
Built for the three roles at every booth
Booth staff
Scan fast, qualify faster. No laptop, no tablet kiosk — just the phone you were already holding. OCR a paper card in under 2 seconds.
Sales managers
See live lead flow by booth and by rep. Spot your hottest lead the moment it's captured. Route it to an SDR before the prospect leaves the hall.
Marketing ops
Unified lead set synced to Salesforce or HubSpot with booth context and qualification score intact. Trade-show ROI reports that finally match what happened at the booth.
Frequently asked questions
Do I still need the event's official rental lead-retrieval scanner?▾
No. NexaLink scans paper business cards with OCR, exchanges digital cards via QR and NFC, and captures notes — the same outcomes as a $500/day rental, running on the phone you already have.
The trade-show floor kills our mobile signal. Does the scanner work offline?▾
Yes, offline-first by design. Every scan, qualification question, and note is stored locally and syncs automatically when signal returns. Rebuilt exhibit halls don't lose leads.
Can we score leads based on what happened at the booth?▾
Yes. Add quick qualification tags at capture time — 'hot', 'demo booked', 'budget confirmed', 'send spec sheet' — and NexaLink scores leads automatically so sales managers see pipeline sorted by priority, not by scan order.
Multiple reps are working the booth. How do we avoid duplicate captures and keep lead ownership clean?▾
NexaLink detects duplicate captures across the team in real time. The first rep to scan owns the lead; the second rep's notes are merged into the same record so the hand-off is clean.
Our SDR team needs the lead list before they fly home. How fast can they act?▾
NexaLink drafts an AI follow-up within 5 minutes of each scan. Reps can send from their phone at the booth, or sales managers can push the end-of-day list into Salesforce, HubSpot, or CSV before wheels-up.
The average booth rep collects 120 cards and follows up on 8. How does NexaLink change that math?▾
By removing the three things that kill follow-up: no manual data entry (OCR), no blank-screen paralysis (AI drafts), and no context loss (booth and conversation tags). Teams routinely go from 7% follow-up to 80%+ within the first trade show.
Get NexaLink before your next trade show
Scanner + digital card + CRM sync. One free account. Every booth rep on the same page — literally.
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