We're building the trust infrastructure most people don't know they need yet.
Atlanta-based. Privately funded for now. Building deliberately.
Why this exists
Almost every adult has content that needs to reach specific people at specific moments. Kids should hear from us on their 18th birthday. Spouses should know the password to the family insurance account. Vacation guests should get the door code on the day they arrive. Future-you might want a letter from past-you.
Today this is solved badly. Estate planning attorneys handle the legal layer for the wealthiest 5% of households. Cloud drives hold content but offer no triggers, no delegated authority, no recipient binding. Inactive Account Manager-style tools cover one platform's content with one trigger and one experience. Password managers handle credentials and not much else. Generic dead-man's-switch services feel like 2008-era internet artifacts that nobody trusts with anything that matters.
None of them addresses the actual job: give my people access to the right things at the right time, without me having to be there.
What we're building toward
The default consumer brand for personal trust infrastructure. The thing your family already has set up, the way they already have iCloud or 1Password set up. Daily-useful for the small stuff. Quietly, reliably there for the big stuff.
The product is also the moat. The patent disclosure on TRS's trusted-release architecture — Releasees (single-party, out-of-band authorization, privacy-from-helper) and Quorum (N-of-M agreement before release or recovery) — is filed; if it issues, no other consumer service can build the same architecture without our license. And the trust we earn through audited security, transparent threat models, and never-misleading copy is the kind of moat that doesn't decay over time.
AI-worm resistant by design. As AI agents gain access to your inbox and files, a new attack class — prompt-injection worms — is starting to surface. Our architecture — end-to-end encryption, no LLM agent inside the product, signed verification tokens — is built to resist this entire attack class. Your Safes are unreadable to anything or anyone except you and the people you send them to. Read more on the security page.
Who's building it
Kevin R.L. Hanson — Founder, CEO & Head of Product
Kevin founded Time Release Corporation and holds the architectural patent for how the product works. He operates out of Atlanta.
His motivation is personal. As a husband and father, he started Time Release Safes from the worry every parent knows — what happens to my family if I'm not there to tell them what to do? Most people put off estate planning because they don't feel rich enough to do it yet. Time Release Safes is for them: a way to start preparing now, in small pieces, and scale up as life does.
It's not a will or a trust and doesn't replace either — but it can carry your final wishes, in your own words, to the people who need to hear them. It catches the in-between things those documents were never built for — a letter to your wife that opens when she needs it, a voice message your daughter receives on her wedding day, the password to your password manager, the crypto seed phrase you never wrote down anywhere safe, the spare-key drawer your spouse forgets about, the apology you couldn't say out loud, the story behind the watch on your nightstand. Even people who already have a will and trust find that Safes catch what those documents leave out. A Safe is also a great place to keep current copies of your will and trust on file — so when the time comes, your executor (or your family, if they're scrambling to find a lawyer) is working from the latest version, not one filed away years ago.
Kevin's long-term goal is for this technology to be available to anyone on earth — which is why there's a permanent free tier.
The team
Small and growing carefully. We hire for craft, judgment, and a willingness to think about edge cases for an unreasonably long time.
Where we are
Atlanta, Georgia. Lower burn rate than coastal hubs, strong consumer-fintech investor presence, easy travel reach to coastal partners. Engineering and design talent at roughly 70-80% of San Francisco compensation, with comparable quality from Georgia Tech, Emory, and the regional tech employer pipeline.
We expect to stay distributed across US time zones with a small Atlanta footprint for in-person collaboration. Quarterly all-hands in Atlanta.
How we work
- Trust as moat. We invest disproportionately in the things that build trust: external security audit, published threat model, never-misleading copy, transparent privacy boundaries, a clear refund and cancellation policy.
- Daily utility before morbid utility. Most products in this category only get opened on the worst day of someone's life. We're designing the opposite: be the calmest place to store the small stuff first; be there reliably for the big stuff later.
- No morbid imagery. No draining hourglasses on expired states. No funereal palettes. The tone is calm, not heavy.
- Slow on shipping until safe to ship. The seed round goes toward an external audit, not toward a sprint to a public launch. We'd rather ship a smaller, audited V1 to a credible category than a flashier unaudited one.
What you can expect
If you write to us, you'll hear back. If we make a mistake, we'll publish what happened. If we change a price, you'll have a year of advance notice. If we ever shut down, your Pending Releases will fire on schedule before we go dark.
If we ever sell the company, the acquirer commits in writing to honoring all of the above before the deal closes. That's how we run this.
Investors and partners: a complete business plan, product roadmap, and patent disclosure are available under NDA. Get in touch.