ConnectMachine turns every design show, job site, and showroom into saved leads. Prospects scan your QR code and share their real contact details in a second, with no paper card to lose. You attach a voice note on their space, style, and budget, and every lead lands in one searchable list you can export to a CSV on any plan, or sync to your CRM on a paid plan.
Interior design runs on the people you meet, and you meet them everywhere: a home and design show booth, a job site where a neighbor stops to ask who is doing the work, a showroom where you trade details with a rep or a contractor. Meeting them was never the problem. Remembering their space, their style, and their budget by the time you follow up is.
Lead capture with ConnectMachine closes that gap. Instead of a stack of paper cards that all blur together, every prospect scans your QR code, shares their real contact, and becomes a searchable lead with a note on their project, ready to work the moment the show or the walk-through ends.
Why the cards you collect never turn into clients
A shoebox of business cards is where good leads go to disappear. You meet a dozen promising people at a design show, collect a handful of cards, and by Monday you cannot remember which one loved warm minimalism and which one just wanted a price. The couple who described their whole loft renovation is already a blank name on a card you cannot place.
The problem is not effort, it is capture. A paper card gives you no way to record the room someone wants redone, no way to tell a serious client from a browser, and no way to find anyone again once the card goes in a drawer. By the time you follow up, the details are gone and your message sounds like it could have gone to anyone.
- A paper card with a title but nothing about their space.
- No note on the room, the style, or the budget they mentioned.
- No way to search or sort the people you met.
- Follow-up that sounds generic, because you forgot the details.
Set up your booth or showroom in five minutes
Your ConnectMachine card carries a QR code you can print and stand on the table at a show, prop in your studio, or keep on your phone at a job site. Turning it into a lead-capture station takes a few minutes and no extra hardware.
- Create your designer card with your photo, portfolio, Instagram, Pinterest, and a consultation link.
- Download your QR code as a print-ready file and set it on a stand at your booth or studio.
- As prospects stop by, ask them to scan it to see your portfolio and your work.
- When they scan, they can share their own contact back, so you capture a real lead in one tap.
- After the show, review the captured leads, each already a clean contact in your list.
There is nothing for the prospect to install. The QR opens your card in their browser, your Instagram and portfolio one tap away, and sharing their contact and saving yours both happen right there, so the aesthetic argument and the lead capture happen in the same moment.
Capture the room, not just the name
A name and a title tell you nothing about whether someone is a client. The value is in the context, and the moment to capture it is while it is fresh. The second a prospect walks away, record a ten-second voice note on their contact.
"Loft renovation, loves warm minimalism, kitchen and living room first, hoping to start in spring, budget flexible." That note turns a plain contact into a lead you can actually work, and it takes less time than writing a single line on the back of a card.
- The room or the whole home they want redone.
- The style they reacted to: warm minimalism, mid-century, coastal.
- Their timeline and what is driving the project.
- Their budget range and anything personal worth remembering for the follow-up.
By Monday, a working pipeline instead of a pile of cards
A weekend at a design show should end as a clean list of leads, not a rubber-banded stack of cards to type up on Monday night. Every contact you capture lands in one place with its note attached, and from there it flows into the tools you already run.
- Review the weekend's captured leads while the conversations are still fresh.
- Export the list to a CSV on any plan, or sync directly to your CRM on a paid plan.
- Your notes travel with each contact, so nothing is retyped and no detail is lost.
- Set your follow-up order by who is most ready to start, not by who you happened to meet first.
Follow up about the exact space they loved
This is where captured leads become projects. Because every contact carries a note, your follow-up references the exact room and the exact style the prospect cared about, instead of a generic thank-you that could have gone to anyone.
Later, when your calendar opens or a vendor sale fits their taste, you do not have to remember who to call. Ask the AI Concierge in plain language, 'who wanted the kitchen remodel?' or 'who loved warm minimalism?', and it pulls the list from your own captured leads in seconds. The people you met at the show are still working for you weeks later.
Lead capture beyond the design show
A design show is the obvious moment, but the same card captures leads everywhere you already work. One QR code covers the whole studio.
- On a job site, so the neighbor who stops to admire the work becomes a lead instead of a passing compliment.
- At a client consultation, to save the prospect and note their space on the spot.
- In a showroom or at market, where you also scan reps' and contractors' cards into searchable contacts.
- In your email signature and on your Instagram, so online interest is captured too.
Every one of those contacts lands in the same organized list with the same notes and the same search, so your entire pipeline lives in one place instead of scattered across cards, screenshots, and memory.
