Collect leads from a landing page, without a form tool

Steps

1. Make a records collection. Ask your AI app for one with a field for each thing the form asks, such as first name and email. Each field has a type, so an email has to be an email and a number a number, and a required field has to be filled in. If you will market to these people, add a consent checkbox that isn’t ticked in advance.
2. Turn on its form address. On the collection in Pagestra, set API to Yes, or ask your AI app to. The address appears with a sample form: each input is named after its field, and a hidden input named _gotcha catches bots, which fill it in where people never see it.
3. Put the form on the page. Ask your AI app to add it; it reads the address from the collection. A form on any other site can post to the same address, as a plain form or as JSON. A hidden _redirect sends the visitor to a thank-you page on the same site, or on to the next step of a funnel through one of its action links.
4. Watch the leads arrive. Collections says how many arrived in the last 7 days, and the app home names new records under the project. Each record shows the page whose form sent it, leaving out anything after the ? in its address. When bots are caught, the collection says how many sends it turned away.
5. Find them and follow up. Search a collection by a name, an email or any value, and download all of it, or only what you found, as a CSV. Your AI app can search the same way. Viewers see how many records there are, not who sent them, and every look and download is in the audit log.