The deal, in plain terms.

DevCard is a career identity system for developers and a hiring research assistant for companies. Developers build a structured, peer-verifiable record of real work. Hiring teams use that record to research candidates with transparent, evidence-backed scorecards.

DevCard is a research assistant, not a decision engine. The platform surfaces evidence, signals, and confidence indicators. Hiring decisions remain human.

Your career evidence belongs to you. The text you enter, the projects you describe, and the verifications you collect are yours.

You grant DevCard a limited license to host, structure, score, and display your record only on the surfaces you authorize: your own private views, the recipients of your share tokens, and your claimed public devcard.com/username if you opt in to one.

You may export your record in structured form at any time. You may delete your account at any time. We do not retain your data beyond the deletion window described in the privacy page.

DevCard does not sell your record, your evidence, your scorecard, your contact information, or any derivative of your data to advertisers, data brokers, sourcing platforms, or any third party. This is a hardline commitment, not a marketing posture.

Hiring teams pay for access to scoring, candidate matching, and structured evaluation tools when invited candidates choose to share. Developers pay separately, when applicable, for verification, advanced features, and a public devcard.com/username. The business model is transactional access to tools, never resale of the underlying record.

You retain all rights to your work and to the descriptions of your work that you enter into DevCard. We do not claim ownership of your career record.

DevCard's platform — the ontology, scoring formulas, evidence model, application surfaces, and trademarks — are owned by DevCard. You may not copy, decompile, or redistribute the platform itself, but you are free to discuss, screenshot, and reference DevCard publicly.

Verification responses contributed by your colleagues are owned by them. They are surfaced as evidence on your record only with their consent.

DevCard is free during early access. No credit card is required to build a record, run a private Calibration, or invite verification. Hiring teams in the closed beta also access the recruiter-side tools without charge.

A paid Calibration unlock exists today as part of an evaluation flow for the eventual paid tier. It is operated in test mode during pre-launch — no real charges are processed without explicit user action and an explicit on-screen confirmation.

When pricing is finalized, beta participants will be notified before any change takes effect, and beta users will be honored under their original terms for a defined transition window.

See Pricing for the current posture.

You may terminate your account at any time. Your record is purged within the retention window described in the privacy page. Active share tokens are invalidated immediately on deletion.

We may terminate or suspend an account in cases of fraud, identity misrepresentation, abuse of other users, or material breach of these terms. We aim to give notice and a chance to remediate when the issue is not zero-tolerance.

DevCard is provided on an "as is" basis during pre-launch beta. We do not warrant any specific hiring outcome, matching result, or score-driven decision.

Scorecards are research tools. They surface evidence and signals to support human judgment. They are not a substitute for an interview, reference check, or final hiring decision. Companies using DevCard assume responsibility for their own hiring decisions.

To the extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability under these terms is limited to the fees you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, or US$100, whichever is greater.