  Large-scale beamforming with radio interferometers has the potential to
revolutionize the science done with pulsars and fast radio bursts by improving
the survey efficiency for these sources. We describe a wide-field beamformer
for the MeerKAT radio telescope and outline strategies to optimally design such
surveys. A software implementation of these techniques, ${\rm M{\small OSAIC}}$
is introduced and its application in the MeerKAT telescope is presented. We
show initial results using the beamformer by observing a globular cluster to
track several pulsars simultaneously and demonstrate the source localization
capability of this observation.
