Captured truth that survives the people who might want it gone.
Time Release Corporation is based in Atlanta, Georgia. We are launching with safety-first encrypted recording for anyone whose phone is the only witness to a moment that matters — survivors of household abuse, young adults navigating public encounters, professionals documenting incidents, people in any interaction where what gets remembered later depends on what got recorded today. Document storage and legacy delivery come with V2.
The bet we're making
People already record incidents on their phones reflexively. Phones have been the most reliable witnesses of the last fifteen years — the recordings that survived changed how cases were investigated, how journalists covered events, how juries deliberated. The recordings that didn't survive — phones confiscated, devices destroyed, files sitting on a camera roll until they were deleted — left those moments to one-sided memory.
TRS exists for the second category. The architecture treats the captured recording as more important than the device that captured it. The same protection that helps a survivor's recording outlast an abuser also helps a motorist's recording outlast a hostile encounter, an employee's recording outlast a coercive manager, a tenant's recording outlast a property owner. The math is direction-neutral; the protection works for anyone who pulled out their phone in a moment that mattered.
We built the architecture once, and we're shipping the safety wedge first because that's where the cost of failure is highest. The same engine powers document storage and legacy delivery in V2.
Patent-pending architecture
The recovery and release infrastructure under TRS is the subject of multiple patent disclosures. The Panic Trigger composite-activation, the threshold-distributed recovery via Shamir-split Recoverees, the Releasee-gated two-stage release, and the two-stage identity-based proxy re-encryption flow for delivering to recipients who haven't yet enrolled. We chose to file before launching because the architecture is the company.
How we're funded
Time Release Corporation is currently bootstrapped, supplemented by anticipated DV-services and youth-safety grant funding aligned with the V1 safety launch. We are in conversation with seed-stage investors who share the safety-first thesis. We do not advertise. We do not sell user data. We will never put a back door in the product.
Who's building it
The product is led by Kevin R. L. Hanson, founder and CEO. More about Kevin →
Our advisory board is being built around domain expertise we don't have internally: DV-services advocacy, youth-safety, and cryptographic protocol review. If you have expertise in those areas and would like to talk, we'd love to hear from you.