Your next engagement is almost always somebody who was in the last one. Cardr makes sure you leave a client site with the whole room in a list rather than one email address and a vague intention.
Independent consulting has one reliable growth channel: the people who watched you work. The problem is that an engagement ends and the whole room disperses back into an organisation you no longer have access to. Cardr makes the exchange one tap with nothing for anyone to install, captures the room into a searchable list with your notes attached, and drafts the re-open when the moment is right rather than leaving it as an intention.
You spend six weeks becoming the most useful person in a building, then you leave and it evaporates.
The last day
You spend six weeks becoming the most useful person in a building, then you leave and it evaporates.
Every constraint above is what decides the format. A card that fails any one of the three does not get used a second time, however good it looks.
The awkward truth of independent work is that the relationship is with people, and people move. The sponsor who hired you goes to a competitor and takes your number with them, which is good. The four managers who actually saw the work do not have your number at all, which is expensive.
Handing over a card on the last day is too late and too formal. What works is the exchange happening naturally in the first week, in a corridor or after a workshop, in a way that puts their details on your side rather than only yours on theirs.
A Wallet pass also solves a specific problem for a consultant: your positioning changes. The practice area you lead with in March is not the one you lead with in October. Edit the card and everyone who saved you sees the current version, which is not something a PDF one-pager or a printed card can do.
Not a mock-up. The artwork below is drawn by the same function that draws the inside of the signed .pkpass file, in the same colours the real pass carries, so this is what Wallet shows.
cardr.co/aisha-rahman
The scene changes by trade, but the mechanism does not. See every version of this page.
No marketing department, and no quiet quarter to build a pipeline in.
Also forFoundersThe meeting that changes things is rarely the scheduled one.
Also forAccountantsThe practice year has a shape, and growth happens in the flat bits.
PricingFree forever, or £12 a monthWhat each plan includes, and the sixty-day guarantee.
The pass is a genuine signed .pkpass, the same file format as an airline boarding pass, and it sits in Apple Wallet alongside them. There are several designs, none of which carry our branding on a paid plan. Whether that reads as professional in your market is your judgement, and the free tier lets you make it without paying.
No. Each Cardr account holds one card. If you genuinely need two positionings you would need two accounts, which is clumsy and we know it.
Not yet. Your card lives at cardr.co/yourname. Custom domains are not available, and if that is a requirement for how you present yourself then this is not the right product today.
No. Apple Wallet is preinstalled on every iPhone and cannot be deleted. Android users open your page from the QR code and save the contact from there. Nothing to download, no account to create.
Free forever for the card, the pass and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken to start. Pro is £12 a month, or £9 a month billed annually, and adds the searchable contact memory, the drafted follow-ups and the reminders, with a sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.