For founders

You will meet them once. Make it count.

Founders meet the person who matters at the worst possible moment: leaving a room, holding a coffee, already late. Cardr makes the handover one tap, brings their details back, and drafts the follow-up before the memory decays.

For a founder the cost of a missed follow-up is not a lost sale, it is a lost round or a lost hire. You meet an investor, an operator or a customer once, usually in a corridor. Cardr makes the exchange one action with nothing for them to install, captures their details back into a searchable list with your note attached, and drafts the follow-up from that context so it goes out the same day rather than the following week.

The real scene

The corridor, not the pitch.

The meeting that changes things is rarely the scheduled one. It is the ninety seconds after it.

Where it happens

The corridor

The meeting that changes things is rarely the scheduled one. It is the ninety seconds after it.

  • Ninety seconds The corridor after the meeting, not the meeting. It is over before you have found a card.
  • Once only You will meet this person a single time. There is no second pass at the handover.
  • No friction Asking an investor to install an app is not a small cost. It ends the interaction.

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.

In that window, asking someone to install an app is not a small friction, it is the end of the interaction. So is fumbling for a printed card you ran out of in March. What works is showing a QR code on the phone already in your hand and having their details land in your list as a result.

The second half matters more than founders usually admit. You are not short of intent on the day. You are short of it on the Thursday, when you have had nine of these conversations and the context has gone.

And because your card is a Wallet pass rather than a PDF, when your title changes from “Founder” to “CEO”, or you raise and your company description changes, everyone who saved you gets the current version without a single email.

The card itself

What it looks like on the phone.

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 UpdatedToday
JH JordanHale
StageSeed
BasedLondon

cardr.co/jordan-hale

Scan or tap to savei
An example card in the obsidian foil design. The holder is invented; the rendering is not. All eight designs are on Pro, three on the free plan.
What you get

The part after the handshake.

  • One address you can say out loud. cardr.co/yourname works when you have no signal, no card and one hand free, and it doubles as the link in your email signature and your bio.
  • Their details, not just yours. The exchange runs both ways on the free plan, so a corridor conversation ends with a contact rather than a hope.
  • Context attached. Notes and tags against each name, so “angel, fintech, said to come back after the seed” is on the record.
  • Drafted follow-ups. Written from what you talked about, fifty a month on Pro. The hard part of a follow-up is starting it.
  • Reminders. Investors and candidates go cold quietly. A nudge before that happens is worth more than any amount of card design.
  • Export everything. CSV and vCard on Pro. Your network should not be locked inside a tool you might leave.
Questions

Founders, answered.

Is this just a nicer business card?

The card is free and it is the part every product in this category does well. What you would pay for is the follow-up: the contact memory, the drafted message and the reminder. If you already follow up reliably, use the free tier and do not upgrade. That is a genuine recommendation, not a rhetorical one.

Does the other person need an app?

No. The pass goes into Apple Wallet, preinstalled on every iPhone and undeletable. Android users open your page from the QR code and save you to their contacts. Nothing to download, no account to create, no email to hand over first.

Can I use it for my company as well as myself?

Each Cardr is a personal card today, so a team means one account each. There are no team management features yet and no per-seat pricing. If you want a team on it, email us rather than assuming it works.

What happens when we rebrand or I change title?

Edit the card once. Every copy already saved in someone else’s Apple Wallet updates itself on their phone. That is the main structural advantage of a wallet pass over a PDF or a printed card.

Is my contact data portable?

Yes. Pro exports everything to CSV or vCard whenever you want, without asking us. If you leave, you take the list.

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