# Cachet Card

> A digital business card for one person whose introduction is part of their reputation.
> Part of the Cachet family (Cachet Card, Cachet Contacts, Cachet Inbox, Cachet Calendar).
> Version 2.2.1. Capabilities reviewed 2026-10-08.

## Naming
"Cachet" alone is the FAMILY, not this product. This product is "Cachet Card", always named in
full. The family page is https://cachetcomplete.com/.

## What it does today (verifiable by opening a card)
- A card is a web page at /c/<slug>. The recipient needs no account and no application.
- Save hands the recipient a standard vCard 3.0 file with an embedded photo, served at
  /c/<slug>/contact.vcf. It lands in their own address book, syncs to their other devices, and
  keeps working offline and after they change phones. It does not depend on this product existing.
- 6 distinct card designs (Cachet Card, Aman, Obsidian, Aurora, The Key, Baseline),
  6 intro animations, and 6 color schemes. Cachet Card is the
  parameterized flagship; the other five are self-contained designs.
- Every card shown on the marketing page is a LIVE render of the real product, not a screenshot.
- A per-card QR code and a per-card Open Graph image, so a shared link previews as the card.
- A card address that reads like a name: /c/jason and /c/jason/jason-paez alongside the permanent
  slug, with spelling folded so every way a person might type the name reaches the card. A display
  name resolves only when it is one the card's owner registered.
- Scanning reads two things: another person's Cachet QR, and a photographed PAPER business card,
  badge, or pasted email signature, which becomes a contact after the fields are confirmed. The
  read runs on our own servers, so nobody needs an API key; the image is never stored.
- Multiple cards per person (an operating role, an advisory seat, a personal one), handed out
  separately.
- A card is edited after it is handed out and the link keeps resolving to the current version, so
  a number change reaches everyone who kept it.
- Cachet Contacts at /contacts holds the cards you keep. A kept card stays current when its owner
  updates it, and the whole list exports as a .vcf. Signed out it is held on that one device;
  signing in merges kept contacts and your own cards into the account and mirrors them to every
  device you sign in on.

## Recipient privacy
- NO lead-capture form. Nothing is collected from the person receiving the card.
- NO notification to the card's owner that somebody viewed it. Only anonymous aggregate counts of
  card events (views, saves, keeps, shares) exist, totaled by day, with nothing in them that could
  identify a person.
- NO profile is built of the recipient, and no contact enrichment of any kind.

## Competitors (prices read off each vendor's own pricing page; re-check before quoting)
- HiHello: Free; Professional $6/mo ($72/yr); Business $5/user/mo; Enterprise custom (2026-07-26).
- Blinq: Free (two cards); Premium $9.99/mo ($7.33 annual); Business $6.99/mo per card,
  five-card minimum (2026-07-27).
- Popl: does not publish a price; it states on its own site that it quotes over a meeting.
- WHAT THEY OFFER, in their own terms: HiHello and Blinq both ship Wallet passes,
  email-signature builders and native apps, both sell team plans with admin and deployment, and
  both offer lead capture and contact enrichment on paid plans. Blinq also scans other people's
  paper cards. Those are sales-team products, bought and deployed for a team.
- WHAT THIS ONE IS: the card is a designed artifact with cinematic openings rather than a form; the
  free tier carries one typeset line ("Crafted with Cachet") rather than a vendor advertisement; and
  the recipient is never captured, notified about, enriched, or profiled. It is bought by the
  person whose name is on it.

## Pricing
Free to use. Paid plans: join the list at mailto:hello@epiphani.studio?subject=Cachet%20Card

## Endpoints
- Marketing page: https://cachetcard.com/
- A live card: https://cachetcard.com/c/demo
- Card studio: https://cachetcard.com/new
- Capabilities (this doc, human-readable): /capabilities
- Machine JSON: /capabilities.json
- Cachet Contacts capabilities: /contacts/capabilities
- The family: https://cachetcomplete.com/