A business card tells someone how to reach you. Online, contact details can end up in profiles, address books, and messaging apps. Keeping those details current and deciding who may use them becomes harder when you change roles, work with a team, or use several services.
YARD Cards are planned digital connection profiles for these situations. A profile can represent a person, team, or organization and describe how others may interact with it. The YARD Platform is intended to connect that information with existing services. This guide explains which everyday uses are intended for free profiles and which additional management tools are planned for premium use.
What is a free YARD Card for?
The free profile is intended for everyday connections: presenting yourself or your organization and interacting with other profiles and business events. The underlying idea is to make a connection usable through the services you already use. Exchanges should remain possible across different social networks and services.
For example, a person might use one profile for professional introductions and another for a different role. A profile is a way to represent that context; it does not mean that every contact should receive the same personal details.
What would premium add?
The premium direction focuses on managing profiles across a team, adapting their presentation, and connecting routine work to existing software. The planned areas include:
- Profile design: adapt the appearance of cards to an organization or use case.
- Team administration: issue and maintain employee profiles as roles and responsibilities change.
- Connected workflows: pass permitted contact information to a CRM or trigger a defined follow-up through supported YARD integrations.
- Detailed sharing rules: specify which information a recipient may receive and under which conditions.
These capabilities are in development. Final plan limits and supported integrations have not been established by this guide.
A plan is different from permission
A subscription describes which tools an account can use. Permission describes whether a particular person or service may receive or process particular information. Paying for additional tools does not grant unrestricted access to another person's data.
YARD is designed around user-controlled sharing. More detailed premium settings must still respect the choices of the people whose information is involved. Once someone has copied information outside a controlled service, changing a permission cannot automatically erase that copy.
Which approach fits your situation?
Start with the task you want to complete. A single profile for introductions has different needs from an organization maintaining many profiles with consistent branding and connected workflows. Check who will manage the information, which services will receive it, and how changes should reach existing contacts.
YARD Cards are in development. The YARD Cards overview explains the current product direction.
For the underlying privacy questions, read why sharing contact details needs more control.