ConferenceCRM did not start as a CRM. It started as a frustration we kept running into ourselves, and kept hearing from everyone else, over and over.
The micro-exchanges add up
If your work happens out in the world, you know the feeling. A B2B event is hundreds of small moments stacked back to back. A hallway introduction. A question after a talk. A five-minute chat at a booth that turns out to matter more than the keynote. Each one is a micro-exchange: short, human, and very easy to lose.
On their own, none of them feel like work. Together, they are almost impossible to keep up with. By the end of the day you have met thirty people, picked up a dozen useful things, and made a handful of promises to follow up, and you can barely reconstruct half of it the next morning.
We wanted it to feel human
Most tools built for this make the problem worse. They turn people into rows in a spreadsheet and conversations into data entry. The moment you start treating a connection like a transaction, you stop being present for it.
We wanted the opposite. Something that lets you stay in the conversation and still walk away with everything captured. No badge scanning, no forms, no heads-down typing while the person is still standing in front of you.
We already had the hard part
The foundation was already built. Alani Insights is our AI-native database: the platform that stores information, enriches it, and lets you ask questions in plain language instead of clicking through fields and filters. Alani is the AI agent that does the work.
So the idea was simple:
Why not make it dead easy for anyone to spin up their own assistant to keep up with all of their connections, the notes, the things they learn, and how it all relates to their network in business and in life?
Not another generic CRM. A personal one, that actually remembers the context behind every person you meet.
What it became
That is ConferenceCRM. You meet someone, snap their badge or just say who they are, and your assistant researches them, files them with context, and holds on to the things that matter. It runs inside Claude, so there is no new app to download and nothing new to learn. You just talk. Here is exactly how it works, and what running inside Claude means.
The point was never to build another place to park contacts. It was to give people back the part of networking that actually counts: the relationship, not the busywork.
We built ConferenceCRM because the best conversations should not evaporate the moment they end.
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