--- title: "Sharing your twin" description: "Your link, deep links, and where to put them." source: https://hiy.ai/docs/sharing --- # Sharing your twin A twin is only useful where your audience already is. ## Your page `hiy.ai/your-name` is the main way to share. It works as a link-in-bio, in an email signature, in a talk's closing slide, or anywhere you'd normally send people to a contact form. ## Deep links Link to a specific question and the visitor lands directly on that answer: ``` https://hiy.ai/your-name?q=How%20do%20you%20price%20projects%3F ``` Useful when answering a comment publicly, or in a FAQ where each item can point at a real, cited answer. **Publish → Share a question** turns each of your suggested questions into one-click LinkedIn, X, email and copy actions — whether you wrote them or hiy drafted them from your sources. When the link is one of your own suggested questions, it unfurls into a card that shows the question itself — so a pasted link reads like an invitation, not a URL. Visitors can share too: every answer has a quiet **Share** action that copies the question's deep link. ## The launch kit The moment you publish, hiy hands you what you need to tell people: your link, a QR code you can drop on a slide or a card, and three ready-to-post announcements you can send as-is or edit. Pick whichever sounds like you — one is straightforward, one leads with a question your twin gets asked, one is candid about it being an AI. You can reopen it any time from **Publish → Launch kit**, or from the **Launch kit** button in the [Sandbox](/docs/testing) once your twin is live. If publishing queued an identity check, the kit deliberately gives you the link to keep and **nothing to share yet**. A link that 404s is a worse first impression than a short wait, and the Publish page shows the moment the check clears. ### A support or team agent gets a different kit Everything above is about your public twin. A [Support Agent](/docs/support-agents) answers inside your own product, and a [Team Agent](/docs/team-agents) answers only the colleagues you invite — neither has a public address, so a QR code would point at a page that 404s and a post would invite strangers who can never get in. Publishing one hands you what it actually needs instead: **who can reach it**, in one sentence — visitors your own server vouches for with a signed token, or the colleagues on your reader list — plus the widget snippet with the place your token goes (support), or how an invite works (team). The signing secret, the token example and the reader list all live on **Publish**, and the sheet points you there rather than keeping a second copy of them. ## Referrals "Create your own" on your public page credits you: anyone who signs up from it is recorded as your referral, and referral perks are honored when paid plans launch. The "Powered by hiy.ai" line refers too — while you're carrying it, anyone who follows it and signs up is recorded as yours. See [The hiy.ai credit](/docs/attribution) for when it comes off and what it's worth keeping. ## Milestones Once your twin has genuinely earned one — a hundred questions answered, a first lead — **Publish** offers a ready-to-share line with your link. Real numbers only; nothing is invented. ## Publishing and unpublishing Nothing is public until you publish, and unpublishing is immediate — the page stops answering and your knowledge stays intact. **The control in the top bar says where you actually are.** It reads **Publish** while your twin is still a draft. Once you have published, it stops asking and shows the state instead — **Live**, or **Awaiting review** while a person confirms the name is yours, or **Declined** if they turned it down. Pressing it opens Publish in every one of those states, so the reason is always one tap away. On a narrow screen the waiting state is shortened to **In review** — same state, same page when you press it. The top bar there is one row, and the long form needs room the row does not have to spare. Publishing needs something to publish. Until your twin has material it can answer from, **Publish** says so instead of offering the button — a twin with nothing in it would decline the questions people came to ask it. If there is nothing there at all it puts a first-source form on the page, so you can add one thing and publish without going anywhere. The publish panel in the [Sandbox](/docs/testing) and the twin card on Overview say the same thing, each pointing at the form already on that page. The button also waits when there is nothing of yours in place to answer from yet — your first material still queued for [training](/docs/training), or every source held back. A published page would have nothing to answer with. The button comes back once there is something: training runs on its own, and a held-back source needs one tick to return. ## What visitors see Your profile card, an "Ask me about" set of your suggested questions, and the chat. Every twin page carries clear AI disclosure, a report link and — once your identity check clears — the Verified badge. No plan removes any of them; see [The hiy.ai credit](/docs/attribution). The badge is tied to the name that was checked, so renaming your twin away from it takes the badge off until you rename back — see [the three kinds of twin](/docs/your-twins). ## Listed or unlisted In **Publish** you choose whether your twin can be *found*, which is separate from whether it can be *reached* — your link works either way. - **Listed** — The default: search engines may index it and it can appear on hiy. - **Unlisted** — Keeps the link working while keeping the twin out of search, out of our sitemap, and off any listing. Useful while you're still filling it in, or for a twin meant only for people you send it to. **Note:** Unlisted is not private. Anyone holding your link can still read it — if something must not be seen, don't put it in your twin. ## What a shared link looks like Paste your link into Slack, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or a tweet and it unfurls into a card with your name, your one-line role, and what your twin actually promises — that it answers from your own material and says so when it doesn't know. You don't set this up and there's nothing to upload. It's generated from your profile, so keeping your name and role line current is all it takes. A twin that isn't live and public shows a plain "An AI twin" card instead, with no name on it. An unlisted or unpublished twin should not be identifiable to someone who guessed the address, and a preview card is as public as the page.