Live in beta · Antwerp · 2026

Teach what you know.
Learn what you love.

Earn a TimeCredit for every hour you teach, and spend it to learn anything from anyone — with zero platform fees. One hour taught = one hour learned.

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How it works

One hour in. One hour back.

No money changes hands. No platform taking a cut. Your time is the currency — equal for everyone on earth.

Step one

The Skill Mirror

A short, reflective onboarding surfaces what you can already teach — framed as real, unmet needs in the community. It beats the most common barrier: not believing your knowledge is worth sharing.

Step two

Flow matching

We don't just match on availability — we match on the skill-level gap that makes learning stick. The right challenge at the right moment, calibrated around flow-state research.

Step three

Live 1:1 sessions

Meet over built-in video — no third-party tools. An AI lesson plan helps every session land. When you both confirm it happened, the TimeCredit transfers. Then you rate each other.

TimeCredit

The loop that keeps turning

Teach an hour
Share a skill with someone who wants to learn it.
Earn 1 TC
One hour taught earns one TimeCredit. Yours to keep.
Spend to learn
Spend a credit to learn anything, from anyone, anywhere.

The platform takes zero cut on the exchange. One hour taught = one hour learned — for everyone, everywhere.

The app

What it feels like to use it.

A look inside the app — live in beta at app.timebank.academy.

Browse by skill, level, language and location
Flow-optimised matching, calibrated to your level
Live video sessions — no third-party tools
AI lesson plan in every session
A secure credit wallet — tracked and protected
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We've built the hard part.

TimeBank isn't a pitch deck. The product is in beta, worldwide, with the full loop running end to end — and an AI layer doing the heavy lifting.

End-to-end exchange
Teach → earn → spend → learn, with escrow and dual confirmation. It works today.
In-app video
1:1 sessions over built-in video — no third-party tools, no login walls.
AI in every session
AI onboarding, lesson plans and an in-session assistant — generated, not templated.
AI session-verification
We check a session genuinely happened before any credits transfer.
Four languages
English, Dutch, French and Romanian, across the whole app.
Installable PWA
Phone-first and installable, with safety, moderation and gamification built in.
Why now & why here

The timing — and the place — are no accident.

Why now

AI made it possible

Live video, AI onboarding, AI session assistants, and AI verification of whether a session truly happened. Only in the last couple of years did running a trusted, global, human-to-human exchange become this affordable.

Why here

The diversity wedge

We start in Antwerp and Brussels — among the most diverse cities on earth. Hundreds of languages and professions within a few square kilometres: the ideal dense, cross-cultural proving ground for a skill exchange.

How it grows

Global in beta, by word of mouth

The product already runs on every continent. We're letting it spread the way trust actually spreads — person to person — which keeps acquisition cost near zero while the network thickens.

Our model

Free for users. Funded by the network.

We make money from what the network produces — never from the people in it.

Free, forever

We don't charge the people

No fees for learners or teachers, no cut of the exchange, no premium tier. Everyone gets +5 TimeCredits a month to keep the loop turning. The app stays free — that's the point.

Revenue · 1

White-label exchanges

Companies, schools and networks run their own branded skill exchange on our rails — turning hidden internal expertise into peer learning that scales. Recurring B2B, with natural land-and-expand.

Revenue · 2

Anonymised skill-graph insight

Aggregated, anonymised maps of how skills move through a population — for public bodies shaping workforce policy and the platforms matching people to work. We never sell personal data.

The asset: a verified skill graph

Credential sites know what people claim. We know what they've demonstrably taught and learned — peer-confirmed, AI-verified, in real time, across skills, languages and places. Every session makes it richer. That's the moat, and it's what makes both revenue lines defensible.

The human impact

Why this matters.

A few hours with the right practitioner can move a career further than a whole course — and put a job within reach. Students learn from people who actually do the work; newcomers get a faster route in. That's the value, and it's borderless.

Lagos → Antwerp → Barcelona
Three continents. Zero euros.
A software engineer in Lagos teaches Python to a project manager in Belgium. He spends those credits to learn guitar from a musician in Barcelona. Three countries, one chain of exchange — no money changed hands at any point.
Brussels → The world
A second act for knowledge.
A retired cardiologist with 40 years of expertise and time to give teaches health literacy to professionals globally. In return she learns guitar, Japanese and urban gardening — meaningful work, at 67.
Accra → Tokyo → Lagos
Skills the system never valued.
A Kente weaver in Accra teaches traditional textile techniques to a designer in Tokyo, and spends her credits to learn Python. One chain, three continents — knowledge and value flowing in every direction.
Roadmap

Where the round takes us.

We've shipped the product. This raise turns a working beta into a thriving, defensible network.

Done

A live, AI-native product

End-to-end exchange, in-app video, AI onboarding, lesson plans and verification, four languages, safety and gamification — in beta, worldwide.

Invest

Invest in a fairer way to learn.

The app stays free; we earn from white-label exchanges and anonymised skill-graph insight — never from users. We're raising on SeedBlink to thicken the network and harden the infrastructure behind it. Belgian investors can get up to 45% back through the federal startup tax shelter.

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One hour.
Infinite possibilities.

Whether you want to start teaching today, invest, or partner with us — this is where it starts.

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timebank.academy · Antwerp, Belgium · Founded 2025