YARD Cards: A Smart Way To Exchange Information
Launching in autumn 2025, YARD Cards are smart connection profiles making it easy to exchange data across communication boundaries. You can use cards to interact openly, pseudonymously, or anonymously using social media, messengers, apps, or in real life.
Think of YARD Cards as business cards with superpowers which can be used to connect with people, companies, and events. But, that's not all. Premium YARD Cards are fully customizable concerning their design and functionality, plus they seamlessly integrate into any workflows and your favorite services.
Whether you explore something, inform someone, register somewhere, log in, network with others, collaborate, communicate, pay, or just want to stay in touch, YARD helps you connect on your terms. Reinvent the way you use your information.
Interact With Events
Currently, users can only discover business events using the events explorer on this website and through calendars on 3rd party websites. But, there will soon be an easier way to stay up-to-date about upcoming events:
Users can create YARD Cards for getting relevant notifications about upcoming business events through messengers, social media, or email. By connecting your 3rd party user accounts via YARD, you can upgrade your card with superpowers, for example to increase the quality of recommendations and interactions.
Ultimately, YARD aims to connect the right people with the right events.
Relationships of Cards
YARD Cards aren't just for individuals—they can represent companies, departments, teams, or even IT systems. These cards can form relationships with each other and include robust privacy controls.
Company managers have administrative rights over the business cards of their employees, enabling oversight and updates. Users can export contact data to any third-party software, with tools to manage its accuracy and lifespan.
You need to verify if someone is authorized to represent a company or still working for them? Just check the corresponding YARD Cards.
Cards Can Interact
Your YARD Cards are designed to work via your preferred communication channels and software providers for better getting around.
- Exchange your digital card with others and control how it can be used.
- Follow people or brands in one workflow while interacting with them.
- Sign in to YARD with any 3rd party login or any of your email addresses.
- Link your YARD account with your social media, messengers, or any other platform through API for a better experience anywhere.
- Hook up identity and authentication systems to your card, like eIDAS or LEI.
- Built for doing business: double opt-in management tracks who you connected with, how, why, and when—before storing the data using your profiles or your preferred 3rd party software.
The fastest way to create your cards is to sign in via LinkedIn. This way your profile data is read and your cards will be created in seconds.
Helping You Connect Better
YARD Cards are more than just digital business cards: they help you to get to interact online or in real life with anyone or anything in both directions. Things you can do with your cards:
- receive or send information via your cards using one check-in;
- limit information or communication sharing based on criteria;
- interact openly, pseudonymously, or anonymously;
- capture a double opt-in for data processing;
- connect 3rd party services via API endpoints;
- define workflows (i.e. save data to your calendars);
- protect your data from being used without consent;
- manage relationships (i.e. family, friends, groups);
- support you to build, maintain, or end connections;
- let anyone reach you when it's necessary and you want it;
- and more.
How do you connect today?
Free vs Premium Cards
By default, your YARD Cards are free and allow you to interact online or in real life with anyone or anything in both directions. You can upgrade to Premium YARD Cards, which will give you superpowers:
- define workflows (e.g., send a welcome message, issue a discount, trigger a webhook, log to your CRM, ...);
- issue and manage cards via your HR software in real-time;
- analyze how others engage and connect with you, your team, or your offerings;
- access cross-channel behavior analytics;
- use advanced data sharing rules, permissions, and filters;
- customize the look and feel of your cards;
- remove the YARD branding;
- contact the 24/7 customer support;
- and more.
How do you connect today?
Premium YARD Cards
YARD Cards allow individuals, teams, and organizations to connect across communication boundaries. You can use cards to exchange identities or to interact with them via your preferred communication channel. Premium YARD Cards come with a lot of customization options and they let you also change the look and feel.
For example, users of Premium YARD Cards can define where to save their data, for example to their preferred CRM system. Premium YARD Cards also let organizations control the issuance of business cards of their employees and manage contact data of associated cards. Business cards can issued through HR management software, which can be connected to YARD.
If business card holders and company card managers verified their contact data, identities can be marked as verified and thus trustworthy.
Example Cards
To give you an introduction of YARD Cards look and work, here early examples:
- Samuel Tucker (a non-verified natural person)
- Sören Eversmeier (a hard-verified natural person)
- CoreLedger AG (a hard-verified company)
- Udi Wizardheimer (a soft-verified pseudonymous person)
- *3e2c6c11 (an API access endpoint user)
Needless to say, that we're currently working on enabling cards for you.
Pre-Register for YARD Cards
It's like magic! Use your smart connection profiles for dealing with events and people. Fill out the form and get notified at launch.