ProntoCard is a free digital business card from ProntoID, hosted at prontoid.com/c/yourname, on which the legal name has been checked against a government-issued identity document rather than typed into a form. Share it with a QR code, a tap of a physical NFC card, or from your Apple Wallet. The person you meet saves it like any other contact.
And the card is honest about the rest: what was verified, what you stated yourself, and which is which.
Every other digital card renders your name, your title and your employer at the same weight, which quietly suggests somebody checked all three. Nobody did. ProntoCard labels each field with where it came from.
Your legal name comes from a government-issued document, matched to a live face. This is the only thing on the card we are prepared to stand behind, and it is the reason the card exists.
You clicked a link sent to an address at your company's domain, so we know you control that address. Useful. Not the same as proving you work there, and the card does not say that it is.
Title, company, phone, links, bio. You wrote them and you can change them in a second. Anyone reading the card can see that, because the card tells them.
Fill in as much or as little as you like. Only what you enter is shown, and you are told exactly what will be public before anything goes live.
A card with everything filled in. Yours shows only what you enter.
Pick your address at prontoid.com, add your details and a photo you like. This part is free and takes a couple of minutes. You get a link and a QR code straight away.
Photograph your ID, take a liveness check, done. Your legal name is then read from the document rather than from your keyboard, and the badge appears. This is where the title and company fields unlock.
Show the QR from your phone, add it to your email signature, put it on a printed card. However it reaches someone, it resolves to the current version — not the version you had when you printed it.
One tap saves you to their contacts, like any card they have ever received. On a verified card, the verification note goes into their address book with your details and stays there.
Your boarding pass is there. Your coffee card is there. Your business card should be too — one tap from the lock screen, no app to open, no fumbling for a link while somebody waits.
Wallet passes arrive shortly after the first release. The card, the QR code and the contact download work from day one, on any phone, with or without a wallet.
A card that only works if the other person installs the same app is not a business card. It is a favour you are asking.
With the camera already on their phone. No app, no account, no sign-up wall between them and your details.
One tap adds you to their contacts as an ordinary entry. It syncs, it backs up, it survives them changing phones.
The badge is not a picture of a badge. It resolves to an independent page confirming the verification, which they can open without asking you.
Publishing your name and contact details on the open web is a real choice with real consequences. Here is what we do about that.
The image on your card is one you upload. The selfie from your verification is used for the identity check and is never published — not on the card, not anywhere.
Nothing appears on the card that you did not put there. Leave the phone number off and there is no phone number.
Remove your card and the address stops resolving straight away. Your chosen address is then held rather than released, so nobody can take it and pose as you.
An unverified card cannot claim a job or an employer. A convincing title on our domain would be a useful tool for fraud, so it is not available until the name behind it is verified.
The card is not an advertising surface. We do not sell contact details and we do not build a profile of who scanned you.
ProntoCard is run by Brooks & Keitt Sàrl from Switzerland, as an independent controller. Retention and your rights over the data are set out in the privacy policy before you publish anything.
Digital does not have to mean nothing to hold. A ProntoCard NFC card is a printed card with a small chip inside it. Hold it against the back of a phone and your card opens. No app on either side, no pairing, no battery, nothing to charge.
The chip holds your card address and nothing else. That is the whole trick: a normal printed card freezes your details on the day it is printed, and so does an NFC card that has your phone number written into the chip. Yours holds a link. Change your number and every card you have ever given away is correct again.
Locked before it ships. The chip is sealed read-only at the factory. An NFC card that can be quietly rewritten by anyone who taps it is a phishing tool with your name on it, so ours cannot be rewritten at all — not by us, and not by whoever handles it next.
Front and back. The chip sits behind the printed card and holds one thing: your card address.
iPhones from the XS onwards and effectively every modern Android read the chip with the screen on and no app open. Your card appears in their browser.
New number, new job, new photo. Edit the card once and the printed card in someone else’s drawer is already showing the change.
NFC is the fast path, not the only one. The same address is printed on the card as a QR code and as plain text, so it still works on a phone that will not tap.
A printed card outlives a web page, so card addresses are never recycled. Once an address is yours it stays yours, even after you take the card down — an old card can never lead to a stranger.
Physical cards are in production and available to verified card holders first. Create your card to be in the queue.
A verified individual card says the person is who they say. A verified organisational roster says they are on your list, in a named role, from a given date — and produces a dated record when that changes.
That is ProntoRoster: the same verification, issued across everyone who represents you, with the employer relationship established by the organisation rather than asserted by the individual.
See ProntoRosterProntoCard is a digital business card with a verified name. You create the card, share it by QR code or link, and the person you meet saves it to their contacts like any other card. The difference is that your legal name has been checked against a government-issued document by an independent third party, and anyone can confirm that themselves.
Creating and sharing a card is free. Verification is the paid step, because it is the step that costs us something to run. An unverified card can carry your name, contact details and links, but it cannot display a job title or a company name — see the question below on why.
It means one specific thing: a live person matching a government-issued identity document completed a check, and the legal name shown on the card came from that document rather than from a text field. It does not mean we have vouched for anything else about you. Every other field on the card is labelled as self-stated, on the card itself.
No, and it does not claim to. You can confirm that you control an email address at your company's domain, and the card will say exactly that — that you control an address at the domain. That is a useful signal, but it is not employment verification and we will not label it as one. If you need verified organisational membership, that is ProntoRoster.
Because a card on prontoid.com carrying a plausible name, a senior title and a company is a convincing tool for fraud, and the absence of a badge does not undo the credibility our domain lends it. Restricting titles and company names to verified cards removes that without taking away the free card.
Yes. On iPhone the card becomes an Apple Wallet pass carrying your name, your verification status and a QR code. The pass holds no contact details at all — scanning it opens your live card, so what someone sees is always current rather than a copy frozen on the day it was added. A Google Wallet equivalent is in progress.
An NFC business card is a physical card with a small chip inside it. Holding it against the back of a phone opens a link — no app, no pairing, no battery. A ProntoCard NFC card is encoded with your card address, so a tap opens your live card. Because the chip holds a link rather than a copy of your details, the printed card never goes out of date: change your phone number and every card you have ever handed out shows the new one.
No, on either side. iPhones from the XS onwards and virtually all modern Android phones read NFC tags with the screen on and no app open. The person you hand the card to taps it and your card opens in their browser.
No, and no honest product can offer this on iPhone. Apple restricts a phone's ability to imitate an NFC card to Apple Pay and Wallet, so phone-to-phone exchange is an Android-only trick that fails silently for half the people you meet. A QR code works on every phone made in the last decade, which is why that is what we build on.
No. They scan the QR with the camera they already have, and they can save your details as an ordinary contact on any phone. Nothing to install, no account to create, and no wallet needed on their side.
No. The photo on your card is one you choose and upload. The selfie taken during verification is used for the identity check and stays with ProntoID — it is never published on your card or anywhere else.
The public link stops working immediately and the details are cleared. Your card address is then yours permanently — it is never released to anyone else, so an old link, QR code or printed card can never lead to a stranger. You can reclaim it yourself at any time. The identity verification itself is a separate record with its own retention period and is not deleted along with the card.
Free to create, a couple of minutes to set up, and yours to keep. Verify whenever you want the badge.
Free to create · Verification optional · No card details taken