Captello is enterprise event lead capture: universal badge scanning, booth gamification, meeting management, and revenue attribution — sold through demos, licensed per event. Lynqu puts AI badge and card scanning on every seat, then keeps working between the shows: contact hub, pipeline, follow-ups, automation, and MCP AI access at transparent per-seat pricing.
Last updated: 2026-07-16
Lynqu is an AI lead capture platform for the whole year, not just the show floor. Every seat gets AI badge and paper-card scanning plus a digital business card, leads land in a shared contact hub with pipeline stages, follow-ups, workflow automation, and campaign attribution, and MCP integration lets your AI assistant work the data. Free to start, self-serve, 12 languages.
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Captello is an enterprise event platform: universal lead capture across hundreds of badge formats, the category's deepest gamification library, meeting management, and revenue attribution dashboards, with routing into CRMs and marketing-automation platforms. It is sales-led — no public pricing page and no self-serve signup; its own materials list a one-event capture license from $500 with unlimited users and devices, with enterprise programs custom-quoted.
Per-event license: from $500/event (their published figure)
Enterprise programs: quote-only via demo
Captello leads on booth gamification and universal badge coverage. Lynqu now matches the event toolkit — kiosk mode, conditional form logic, engagement scoring, calendar sync, AI meeting briefs, and event ROI reporting — plus the everyday layer: digital cards, contact hub, follow-ups, automation, and self-serve MCP AI access.
| Feature | Lynqu30/31 | |
|---|---|---|
Core Features(2) | ||
| Digital Business Cards | Yes | Partial |
| Free Plan Available | Yes | No |
AI & Automation(5) | ||
| AI Card Scanner | Yes | Yes |
| AI Badge Scanner | Yes | Yes |
| AI Follow-Up Reminders | Yes | Partial |
| AI Contact Enrichment | Yes | Yes |
| MCP AI Integration | Yes | No |
Event Lead Capture(7) | ||
| Custom Lead Qualifiers | Yes | Yes |
| Conditional Form Logic | Yes | Yes |
| Kiosk / Unattended Capture | Yes | Yes |
| Behavioral Engagement Scoring | Yes | Yes |
| Booth Gamification | No | Yes |
| Year-Round Contact Hub | Yes | Partial |
| Transparent Self-Serve Pricing | Yes | No |
Platform & Integrations(17) | ||
| Two-Way Contact Exchange | Yes | No |
| Contact Tags & Filters | Yes | Yes |
| Analytics, Insights & Dashboards | Yes | Yes |
| Team Management | Yes | Yes |
| Employee Goals & KPI Scorecards | Yes | No |
| Workflow Automation Rules | Yes | Partial |
| Round-Robin Team Booking Pages | Yes | Partial |
| Two-Way Calendar Sync | Yes | Yes |
| AI Meeting Briefs | Yes | Yes |
| Event Tickets, Wallet Passes & Door Check-in | Yes | No |
| One-Time Event Pass | Yes | Yes |
| Event ROI & Portfolio Report | Yes | Yes |
| Shared Team File Library | Yes | No |
| CRM Integration | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR Compliant | Yes | Yes |
| Offline Access | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-Language (12+) | Yes | No |
Lynqu is transparent and self-serve; Captello is sales-led with per-event licensing. A 50-seat team on Lynqu Business + AI annual pays $4,794/year all-in, however many events you run.
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Captello's gamification library — spin-to-win wheels, trivia, leaderboards, and dozens of brandable games where every play captures a scored lead — is the strongest booth-traffic toolkit in the category, with prize fulfillment built in. Lynqu has no booth games: it draws capture volume through QR capture forms, attendee self-capture, and digital cards, and concentrates its depth on what happens to the lead after the conversation.
Captello is organized around the event program: capture at the show, route to CRM and marketing automation, attribute revenue to the event. Digital business cards exist in its lineup as a separate add-on product. For Lynqu the card IS the platform's front door: every rep carries one every day, every scan and share feeds the same contact hub, and the built-in CRM, follow-ups, and automation run year-round — an event is one spike in a continuous motion.
Captello answers “which event paid off?” with enterprise revenue-attribution dashboards. Lynqu ships the same answer to every org on every tier: the events module compares your events side by side on leads, pipeline, revenue, win rate, meetings, cost, and ROI, with values converted to your organization's currency.
Captello licenses per event — its own materials list a one-event capture license from $500 with unlimited users and devices, and enterprise programs are quoted through sales, so a heavy show calendar multiplies the cost. Lynqu is flat per-seat pricing: Business + AI at $9.99/user/mo ($7.99 on annual billing) covers unlimited scans across unlimited events, with a free plan and self-serve signup — no demo call required. For show-season teams that don't want a subscription at all, Lynqu also offers a one-time 30-day Event Pass covering up to 10 seats, with AI scan and enrichment credits bundled.
Both platforms ship an MCP server, so assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot can query live lead and event data — a capability most of the category lacks entirely. Captello's AI layer (enrichment waterfall, ask-anything reporting, MCP) is part of enterprise packages. Lynqu includes MCP access, AI scanning, contact enrichment, behavioral engagement scoring, AI meeting briefs, and workflow automation self-serve on Business + AI, so a five-person team gets the same AI access as a five-hundred-person program.
We used Lynqu daily across live events and tested its AI scanner on physical business cards and event badges. Captello has no self-serve signup, so we evaluated it through its public website, product documentation, verified G2 reviews, and published case studies, focusing on capture coverage, gamification, meeting management, and pricing structure.
Pricing was verified from official websites where published; Captello has no public pricing page, so we cite the per-event figure its own comparison pages publish (one-event capture license from $500, unlimited users and devices) and note that enterprise programs are quote-only. Feature data is as of July 2026.
Sources verified July 2026: captello.com, G2 reviews.
Switching is painless
Scan the QR on any digital business card — including Captello cards — and Lynqu imports the contact in seconds. Email signatures and LinkedIn profile screenshots work too. Nothing gets left behind.
Works with most digital business cards; unreadable ones fall back to a quick photo scan.
Captello is an enterprise event platform: universal badge capture, booth gamification, meeting management, and revenue attribution for large trade-show programs, sold through a sales team. Lynqu is an AI lead capture platform built around digital business cards and scanning on every seat — leads flow into a year-round contact hub with pipeline, follow-ups, automation, and analytics, at transparent self-serve pricing.
Captello has no public pricing page — every deal goes through a demo. Its own comparison pages state that a one-event Premium Lead Capture license starts at $500 with unlimited users and devices, and enterprise programs are custom-quoted. Costs scale per event, so a busy show season multiplies the license fees.
A 50-seat team on Lynqu Business + AI annual pays 50 × $95.88 = $4,794 per year, all-in: unlimited AI badge and card scans, the year-round contact hub, built-in CRM, follow-ups, team analytics, and CRM sync. No per-event licenses and no per-lead fees — the price is the same whether you run three events or thirty.
No. Captello's gamification library — spin-to-win, trivia, prize wheels, leaderboards — is the strongest booth-engagement toolkit in the category, and if game-driven booth traffic is central to your strategy, Captello earns that role. Lynqu draws capture volume differently: QR capture forms, kiosk-mode self-capture on a booth tablet, and digital cards on every attendee-facing seat, with the platform focused on what happens to the lead afterward.
Yes — both Lynqu and Captello ship an MCP server, so AI assistants can query your lead and event data. The difference is access: Lynqu's MCP integration is included self-serve with Business + AI at $9.99/user/mo ($7.99 annual), while Captello's is part of enterprise packages quoted through sales.
If your strategy is a large enterprise event program with game-driven booths, onsite meeting logistics, and a budget for per-event licensing, Captello is built for exactly that. For teams that want every seat capturing leads all year — with a contact hub, pipeline, follow-ups, automation, and AI access at a price you can see before you talk to anyone — Lynqu delivers it self-serve, in 12 languages, from $7.99/user/mo.