12,847
Trees saved from card production
Every paper business card printed ends up in a landfill within weeks — 88% of them, to be specific. Cardly replaces that paper with a link, a QR, and a tap. The planet gets a break. Your drawer does too.
Roughly 10 billion business cards are printed globally each year. 88% are discarded within a week. Printing them burns pulp, water, solvents, and diesel — and then we ship them across the country in trucks.
Every paper business card makes the same five-stop journey. We cut it to one step: share.
Trees felled for virgin pulp, or bleached recycled stock.
Offset presses, solvent inks, foil, die-cuts — all energy-hungry.
Diesel-powered delivery to offices and homes around the world.
Exchanged, pocketed, forgotten. 88% never make it into a CRM.
Coated, laminated, or foil-stamped — usually non-recyclable.
We keep it boringly transparent. Here's the exact shape of our commitments, measured quarterly and reported here first.
We cut the paper, the ink, the truck, and the landfill — then offset what's left of our own footprint.
A good handshake doesn't care where you're from. Cardly works in low-bandwidth, on low-end phones, in two languages (so far).
Open numbers, honest privacy, and a board that actually meets. No "partnerships" we can't name.
We use the UK FSC's conversion factor: one mature tree yields roughly 8,333 standard business cards across its processing chain. Every card shared via Cardly that would otherwise have been printed counts toward the total — but only the first time you share it.
Numbers are audited quarterly by South Pole. Methodology document on request.
Cardly's product design and business model contribute directly to these four SDGs. We map progress against each every year.
Zero paper, zero shipping, zero waste in a business-card exchange.
Every Cardly share avoids printing emissions. Our own ops are carbon-neutral.
Trees stay standing. 1% of revenue funds verified reforestation projects.
Building the low-carbon infrastructure for professional networking.
Signed renewable-energy contracts for all hosting (AWS eu-west renewables + Supabase). No paper in the office, no swag printing.
Joined 1% for the Planet. Locked in 1% of all revenue (not profit) for verified reforestation and ocean-plastic partners.
Published our first South Pole-verified sustainability report. 12,847 trees saved, 184t CO₂e avoided. You're reading the summary.
Go beyond neutrality — remove more CO₂ than we produce, every year. Targets set, measurement framework in place with South Pole.
Our north-star number. The equivalent of saving ~12,000 trees per year, every year, with zero marginal environmental cost.
Every download makes a small dent. Ten million small dents keep a forest standing. Join the cleaner way to network.