YARD Cards: Smart Connection Profiles
Launching in Summer 2025, YARD Cards make it easy to connect with anything across communication boundaries. You can use cards to exchange identities or to interact with them 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Cards are fully customizable and seamlessly integrate into your workflows, making anything you're currently using feel outdated.
Whether you're exploring something, informing someone, registering somewhere, logging in, networking with others, collaborating, communicating, paying, or just staying in touch, YARD helps you connect on your terms.
Reinvent the way you use your information.
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.
Helping You Connect Better
By default, your YARD Cards are free and allow you to interact online or in real life with anyone or anything in both directions. Your YARD Cards simply support you in getting around.
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?
Interact With Events
Currently, users can only discover events through calendars on 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.
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.
- Sign in with your favorite single-sign in service or any of your email addresses.
- Connect your cards with your social media, messengers, or any other platform through API to use them for a better experience.
- Easily pay for anything by connecting your preferred payment providers.
- 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.
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.
