A recruiter meets more people in a month than most professionals meet in a year, and places a fraction of them this quarter. Cardr captures both sides of the desk, keeps the context, and makes the message you send in eighteen months still sound personal.
Recruitment is the one job on this list where the follow-up window is measured in years. The candidate you meet today is a placement in eighteen months, and the hiring manager you meet today has a vacancy when their team grows. Cardr shares your card with nothing for them to install, captures their details back into a searchable list, holds the context of the conversation against the name, and drafts the message when the moment comes round. Note the honest limit: there is no ATS integration and no team dashboard.
Volume is the job. Recall is the skill. The two are in direct conflict.
The long game
Volume is the job. Recall is the skill. The two are in direct conflict.
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.
You are at a meetup, a careers fair and three client meetings in the same week, and the entire value of that week sits in details you did not write down. Which one is on a nine-month notice period. Which one only wants to move for a shorter commute. Which hiring manager said they would be recruiting again after the funding closed.
None of that survives contact with next week unless it is captured at the moment. Cardr attaches it at the point of exchange rather than asking you to do a data entry session on a Friday that never happens.
And because the timescale is long, the way you re-open a conversation matters more here than anywhere else. A message that references what someone actually said to you eighteen months ago is a different object from a bulk mailshot, and everyone on the receiving end knows the difference immediately.
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.
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The scene changes by trade, but the mechanism does not. See every version of this page.
Deals are not lost in the meeting. They are lost in the week after it.
Also forEvent professionalsMore contacts than any other environment, and the worst follow-up rate.
Also forConsultantsYour next engagement is almost always somebody who was in the last one.
PricingFree forever, or £12 a monthWhat each plan includes, and the sixty-day guarantee.
No. Cardr has no ATS or CRM integrations. It exports to CSV and vCard on Pro, which covers a manual import into most systems. If automatic sync is a requirement, Cardr is not the right tool and we would rather tell you now.
The people who share their details with you do so through a form that says where those details go and that they are stored. You are the data controller for the contacts you collect, and our terms say so directly. What you do with them afterwards, including how long you keep them and how you handle a deletion request, is your responsibility. Our privacy notice sets out our side.
Not today. There is no team account, no shared pool and no admin console. Each consultant would have their own account and their own list. That may be a dealbreaker for an agency and it should be weighed before signing up.
No. The pass goes into Apple Wallet, preinstalled on every iPhone. Android users open your page from the QR code and save you to their contacts. Asking a passive candidate to install something is how you lose them.
Free forever for the card and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken. Pro is £12 per person per month, or £9 a month billed annually, for the searchable contact memory, the drafted messages and the reminders. Sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.