I built this for two reasons.

Why I built this

I'm Kevin Hanson — founder and CEO of Time Release Safes. The company grew out of two convictions that, for me, have always been the same conviction wearing two faces.

The first is family. As a husband and father, it started with the worry every parent knows — what happens to the people I love if I'm not there to tell them what to do? I didn't want the answer to depend on being wealthy enough to keep an attorney on retainer. I wanted a way to start now, in small pieces, and let it grow as life does.

The second is safety — and it's just as personal. As a person of color, I've witnessed injustice and I've been on the receiving end of it. I know what it is to need proof that something happened the way you said it did — a record that can't be spoken over, deleted, or made to disappear when it's inconvenient to someone with more power in the room. That need — for a basic sense of empowerment, to be believed, to have the truth outlast the moment — is the other half of why this exists.

So we're leading with the safety wedge first, because that's where the cost of being unheard is highest: survivors of abuse, young adults navigating public encounters, anyone whose phone is the only witness to a moment that matters. The same architecture that protects a survivor's recording will also carry a letter to your daughter on her wedding day.

Who's building it

Kevin R.L. Hanson — Founder, CEO & Head of Product

Kevin founded Time Release Corporation and holds the architectural patents for how the product works. He builds out of Atlanta. His motivation is the one above — family and safety, the two reasons the company exists — and his long-term goal is for this technology to reach anyone on earth who needs it, which is why there will always be a permanent free tier.