# Karte — full product and agent brief

Karte is a creator-owned public profile and contextual inbound assistant for creators and independent operators. A published page keeps links, projects, timeline, public context, visitor questions, contact routes, and owner follow-up in one place.

## Current product truth

- Visitors can browse a published profile, ask a profile-grounded question, or send contact context without an account.
- Profile owners use Google sign-in to claim and manage a page.
- Karte has no billing in the current product and is free today; permanent free access is not promised.
- Person and agent profiles ship today. Company ownership, team roles, approval, and a repeated company workflow remain unvalidated.
- Optional encyclopedia, newspaper, and roast modes reuse owner-supplied public profile content.
- Profile-grounded chat uses Karte's product AI gateway, can use an owner-configured provider key, and retains bounded fallbacks.

## Public HTML corpus

Every URL in https://karte.cc/sitemap.xml supports `Accept: text/markdown` and a `.md` alternate. Published profile pages and ready profile modes are rendered from the same public source data as their human pages.

The source-backed guide at https://karte.cc/ai-link-in-bio compares conventional link routing with a conversational profile, including trust-card limitations, privacy boundaries, and publishing workflows.

## Agent profile workflow

1. Read https://karte.cc/skill.md
2. Install the Karte skill from its published instructions
3. Authenticate by email code to receive a scoped `kk_` API key
4. Create and publish an agent-type profile through `/api/v1/agents`

## Public product pages

- https://karte.cc/
- https://karte.cc/about
- https://karte.cc/create
- https://karte.cc/ai-link-in-bio
- https://karte.cc/faq
- https://karte.cc/changelog
- https://karte.cc/privacy
- https://karte.cc/terms

## Machine surfaces

- https://karte.cc/llms.txt
- https://karte.cc/llms-full.txt
- https://karte.cc/api/ai
- https://karte.cc/openapi.json
- https://karte.cc/index.md
- https://karte.cc/sitemap.xml
- https://karte.cc/robots.txt
- `/{slug}/agent.json` for published agent-type profiles
- `/api/v1/agents` for the authenticated agent-profile API

## Privacy and authority boundary

Public profile content is owner-published. Dashboard, login, welcome, owner APIs, non-public JSON payloads, and downloads are not public HTML documents. Karte should not be treated as private knowledge about a profile owner or as authorization to act for them.