Japan and the world
Your India network stays when staff rotate.
For companies and people doing business between Japan and the world: Japanese companies working abroad, and foreign companies working with or entering Japan. Small and mid-size teams, plus startups and founders. Japan and India, and beyond. In India, for example, Japanese and Indian staff share one network, see who already knows a client, and keep the relationships when someone rotates home.
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- English and 日本語 cards
- Personal contacts stay private
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What we hear from teams in India
Your team meets the right people in India. Then the trail goes cold.
Meishio's founder, in their own Google Contacts, first week: 763 contacts imported from Google, 14 duplicates merged, 8 job changes found and approved.
When a managing director returns to Japan, his contacts go with him.
Relationships stay when people rotate
Contacts shared with the team stay with the company when someone returns to Japan or leaves. The record of who knew whom stays too.
Expat staff keep cards in a binder. Local staff keep them on their phones.
One network for both teams
Each person scans cards or connects Google Contacts, then chooses which work contacts to share. Search the whole team's network by person or company.
A purchasing contact can move to a competitor months before the team hears.
Know when people move
People in India change roles fast. Meishio Search checks public pages for a new role and shows where it found it. You decide what to update.
A team can leave Auto Expo and IMTEX with 300 cards and follow up on only half.
Scan the stack, share the follow-ups
Up to 12 cards in one photo. Possible duplicates are flagged, and each person you share gets a follow-up owner and a date.
Head office asks who the team is meeting, and nobody can say.
See who knows whom
For any client, see which colleagues know them and how well. The team activity shows what was added and shared, and admins can export the team list as a CSV.
Half the cards are in English, half in Japanese, and some are both.
English and Japanese, one person
Meishio reads English, Japanese and bilingual cards, and treats kanji and romaji names as the same person.
How a team starts
Up and running the same afternoon.
- 1
Invite your team
Create a workspace and send each colleague a personal invite link for their work email, as an admin, editor or viewer.
- 2
Bring in the cards
Each person scans cards or connects Google Contacts, then picks which work contacts to share with the team.
- 3
Work the network
Search everyone the team knows, see who knows whom, and give each follow-up an owner and a date.
Personal stays personal. The team sees a name, title, company, the work email and office numbers if you include them, and that you know them. Your notes, mobile and personal numbers and where you met never leave your own account.
Priya
Knows well
Hiroshi
Met twice
Personal notes stay private
For the MD and admins
Control without the paperwork.
What a team admin gets today, and what's coming next.
Roles and invites
Admin, editor and viewer. Invite with a personal link; remove someone's access in one step.
Clean handover
When someone rotates home or leaves, shared records stay with the team. Their personal contacts stay theirs.
Team activity
See who added, changed or shared what, and when.
Export any time
Admins export the team list as a CSV. Each person can export in Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM or kintone columns, or as vCard.
Bilingual by design
Japanese and English cards, names and companies in one record. The app works in English and Japanese, with more screens in Japanese each release; the team screens are in English for now.
Works with Google Contacts
No new address book to adopt. Fixes you approve go back to Google, and each one can be undone.
Company single sign-onComing
Sign-in through your company's identity provider (SAML) for the whole team.
CRM syncComing
Send shared contacts straight to your CRM. Today, export a CSV in your CRM's columns.
Security
Your team's contacts. Your company's call.
You're trusting us with your clients and partners. Here is exactly what we promise.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Every connection is encrypted. Stored data is encrypted with AES-256 by our database and storage providers (per their published documentation), in Singapore. See the security checklist
Shared only on purpose
Other companies can't see your data. Inside the team, people see only what colleagues choose to share.
Never sold
No ads, and we never sell your data. Your contacts are never shared with other customers.
Read by AI, not typed up by people
A card photo goes to an AI service only to read its text. Nobody keys in your cards. Our data page lists each service and what it receives.
Nothing changes behind your back
Google Contacts changes only with fixes you approve, or when you turn on automatic sync. Approved fixes can be undone, and contacts already in Google are never deleted.
Yours to take or delete
Download everything or delete your account from Settings. Admins can export the team list at any time.
Where your data lives
Stored in Singapore by default. Japan data storage is available on request for teams.
- No ads
- No selling
- No surprises
Plans
Sized for your team.
Every plan is free while Meishio is in early access. Paid Team, once it opens, is ₹999 per seat a month in INR, from 2 seats.
2–10 people
Small team
Free in early access
- Shared network and collections
- Who knows whom
- Follow-up owners and dates
- Export to CSV
11–200 people
Growing team
Free in early access
- Everything in Small team
- Several workspaces, by team or region
- Team activity
- An onboarding call with us
200+ people
Company
Talk to us
- Everything in Growing team
- Japan data storage, available on request for teams
- Single sign-on (coming)
- A direct contact at Meishio
Questions about Meishio
More on the questions page and pricing.
What is Meishio?
Meishio is an app for your business contacts, on iPhone and the web: scan cards, check public sources for role updates and review any findings. Connect Google Contacts to sync the changes you approve.
How does Meishio keep contacts up to date?
When you start a check, Meishio Search looks at public web sources for each person's current role and shows the source and date. Unsure matches are flagged, and nothing changes until you accept.
Is Meishio free?
Yes, while in early access, with no charges, and a Free plan stays free for one person after that. Your first research (up to 5 people) is free; later research uses one credit per person. See pricing
Does Meishio work with iPhone and Outlook?
iPhone, yes. New people go straight to iPhone Contacts when you turn it on in the iPhone app (in TestFlight); Outlook has no live sync, so import a vCard or CSV file from Meishio.
How does Meishio find out where someone works now?
Meishio Search checks public web sources for a person's current role and company when you start a check: for one contact, a list, or your whole address book. It does not watch everyone in the background. Each finding shows its source and date; a match that might be a different person is marked "Not sure this is the same person" and is never applied on its own. Public pages can be out of date, so nothing on a contact changes until you accept it, and every change can be undone. Confident job changes can be accepted automatically if you turn that on in Settings. Each person checked counts as one check, and each action shows what it will use before you start.
Does Meishio delete or change my Google contacts?
Meishio never deletes the contacts already in your Google account. It changes only the fixes you approve, such as adding a country code or marking an email as work or personal, and each fix can be undone. New connections let you choose contacts to import; sending edits back starts off. You can enable automatic sync for your primary connection in Connections. Additional accounts receive only updates you review. Existing connections keep your earlier preference.
Can Meishio read Japanese business cards?
Yes. Meishio reads English and Japanese cards, including cards printed in both. It keeps the kanji and English name on one contact, reads titles such as 部長 (department head) and 代表取締役 (representative director), and tells a 〒 postal code from a phone number.
How do I scan many business cards at once?
Open Scan and keep taking photos. You can put up to 12 cards in one photo; Meishio finds each card, reads it, joins fronts and backs, and asks you only about details it could not read clearly.
How do I fix missing country codes in Google Contacts?
Connect Google Contacts and run the address-book check. Meishio finds business numbers saved without a country code and suggests the full number, such as +91 for India, +81 for Japan or +65 for Singapore. You approve the fixes, and Meishio writes them back to Google Contacts.
Where is my data stored?
Your contacts are stored in Singapore and are private to your account; other users cannot see them. Meishio never sells your data. Card photos are saved without camera or location data. The AI providers that read cards and check roles, and why, are listed on the Your data page.
Bring your team's cards together.
Tell us about your team. We'll set up your workspace with you and walk your team through it, free during early access.