The right place. Your terms. In time.

During a New York orchestra production for Flavour, Adaku was coordinating transfers for the venue and accommodation for the band. It was Labor Day weekend, and finding suitable rooms quickly became an urgent problem.

Between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., she personally visited around 30 hotels, sent about 50 emails and made about 40 calls, while also searching for day-use rooms the band could rest in.

Every step was a separate conversation: is a room free, does it fit the group, can we check in early, will they take payment now? An agent with clear permission could search, check each requirement and pay within an agreed limit — and say plainly when nothing suitable exists, rather than book something that doesn't fit.

That's why the first demo is Day Use: one early-arrival room, checked against your conditions before any money moves.

When Adaku's sister moved to New York, wires and other transfers were hard to line up with apartment deadlines. Having the money wasn't the problem — knowing it would arrive, and be acknowledged, before the deadline was.

A move brings the listing, the requirements, the deadline, the documents, the recipient and the fee together at once. Keys in Time aims to put them in one clear decision: check who is being paid, what the charge is for, and whether it fits what you approved, then track payment and the provider's acknowledgement separately.

The Move page shows that application-ready workflow for New York.

Adaku is the founder of Keys in Time and leads team Proof of Stay. She is President of the Oxford Blockchain Society, an artist and a production organiser — which is how she ended up on the overnight hotel hunt that inspired this product.

Keys in Time was built for the New York XRP Ledger hackathon, 24–25 October 2026, focusing on Mastercard AP4M agentic payments and the XRPL ecosystem.