How to Set Up Your Sovereign Professional Profile in Under 20 Minutes

Setting up a Kevara profile is not like filling out a web form for the hundred and fiftieth time. There is no database waiting for your information on the other side. What you are doing is connecting your own Personal Data Server to a display layer, so your professional record lives where it should always have lived: with you. Here is the full walkthrough. Before You Start: What You Need You need an AT Protocol account. That means one of the following: - A Bluesky account (yourhandle.bsky.social) - A Gander account (yourhandle.gander.social) the Canadian network - A EuroSky account (yourhandle.eurosky.social) for European professionals - Or your own self-hosted PDS with a custom domain If you do not have any of these yet, Bluesky is the fastest entry point. Gander is the right choice if you are a Canadian professional who cares about data residency. The setup process is the same either way. You do not need a Kevara account. There is no separate account to create. Kevara reads your AT Protocol identity. That is the whole point. Step 1: Connect Your Handle (2 minutes) Go to kevara.app and click Get Started. You will be prompted to enter your AT Protocol handle. This is your handle as it exists on your network, for example yourname.bsky.social or yourname.eurosky.social. Kevara uses the official AT Protocol OAuth flow. You will be redirected to your PDS to approve the connection. Your password never passes through Kevara's servers. The OAuth token goes directly between your browser and your PDS. Once approved, you are in. Step 2: Sync Your Base Profile (2 minutes) Kevara pulls your display name, avatar, and bio from your existing app.bsky.actor profile record. If you have already set these up on Bluesky, Eurosky or Gander, they appear automatically. If your profile information lives on a different network or you have recently updated it, hit the Sync button on the profile panel. This re-fetches the current state of your PDS record and updates the display layer. This sync is manual by design. Your data, your timing. Step 3: Add Your Professional History (8 minutes) This is where Kevara diverges from a standard link-in-bio tool. Under the Profile tab, you will find fields for: - Work history via the Sifa Standard (id.sifa.position) — employer, role, dates, description - Education via id.sifa.education - Skills — which form the basis for peer endorsements later When you save any of these, Kevara writes a record directly to your PDS using the Sifa lexicon schema. You are not saving to a Kevara database. The record lives in your repository, which means any other app in the AT Protocol ecosystem that supports the Sifa Standard can read it. This is what portability actually looks like. Not an export button. An open standard. Step 4: Build Your Portfolio Links (5 minutes) The My Articles panel lets you surface your long-form writing from Offprint, Leaflet, pckt.blog, and WhiteWind directly on your profile. If you have published on any of these platforms with the same AT Protocol handle, they surface automatically. The My Links section uses the is.kevara.linkpage lexicon to store custom link cards. These are your portfolio projects, social presences, and external resources. Add them here and they are saved to your PDS, not Kevara's servers. Free accounts display up to three articles in list format. Pro accounts unlock six articles, tile and carousel layouts, pin and hide controls, and the ability to feature specific pieces at the top of your profile. Step 5: Verify Your Domain (3 minutes, optional but recommended) If you have a personal domain or a professional website, domain verification is the fastest way to establish credibility. It proves you control the web presence you are linking to, not just that you typed the URL. Under Settings, select verification and complete the verification request. Once submitted someone from Kevara will review your profile and your application against the verification guidelines. Once approved your Kevara Verification badge will be displayed on your profile. This is not a visual badge we drew. It is a tamper-proof certificate that any other AT Protocol app can read and trust independently of Kevara. What You Have Now At the end of this process you have: - A professional profile anchored to a cryptographic identifier you control - Work history stored as open-standard Sifa records on your own PDS - Published writing surfaced from the open social web - (If verified) a signed domain certificate attached to your DID No locked-in data. No proprietary schema. No third party sitting between you and your professional record. If you ever leave Kevara, your records stay. Every piece of structured data you added is in your repository, in an open format, ready to be read by whatever comes next. That is the point. That is the whole thing. --- Ready to get started? Your professional profile is waiting at kevara.app. Connect your AT Protocol handle and you are in.