You talked to a customer six weeks ago about a big job. Scout knows. Because Contacts was listening the whole time.
A contact gets added when you say a name out loud, upload a business card, or paste a text thread. Everything finds the same record -- no duplicates, no manual cleanup.
Say a name in Hub or on a job. Contacts transcribes it via Whisper, extracts the person, and creates or updates the record -- before you get back to the truck.
Snap a business card. Upload a vCard or CSV export from your phone. Gemini Vision reads it and maps every field -- phone, email, company, address.
Paste a text thread, an email signature, or a block of notes. Contacts finds the person inside the noise and adds them clean.
"You mentioned his name in a conversation. Contacts captured it. You called him -- it transcribed it. You sent a proposal via Sign -- it logged it. His entire history with your business is one tap away."-- BeardPowered Contacts, running on your server
Full-text search, AI enrichment, privacy controls, and deep integration with the rest of the BeardPowered suite -- running on your server, not ours.
Type any fragment -- name, company, phone, address. Instant results.
Mark contacts visible to you only, or share across the whole company.
Every contact auto-creates a People node in Scout. Mention a name -- Scout surfaces the card.
Fuzzy name matching flags potential duplicates before they compound.
Long audio? POST returns a job ID. Poll when ready. iOS can close the tab.
Every BeardPowered app imports the same contacts module -- CRM, Field, Hub, Sign.
Connected across the BeardPowered suite
HubSpot starts at $45/month per seat and goes to $800. Salesforce is worse. BeardPowered Contacts runs on your VPS -- one license, every seat, no monthly rent.
| Feature | BeardPowered | HubSpot Starter | Your Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Included with suite | $45-$800/mo | Free but useless |
| Voice capture → contact | ✓ Whisper, async | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI call summary | ✓ via Scout | Add-on, $$$ | ✗ |
| Connected to estimates & signatures | ✓ BeardSign write-back | Partial (Zapier) | ✗ |
| Runs on your server | ✓ You own everything | ✗ Their cloud | ✗ Apple's cloud |
| Vendor lock-in risk | None | High | Medium |
Running on your server. Your data. Your software. No monthly SaaS rent.