Timed tool access that clocks out when the contract does
SMB contractor access that auto-revokes Slack, Google, Notion, and Trello when the project end date hits — CyberArk without the enterprise tax.
A 14-person agency hires a freelance designer for a six-week brand sprint. Someone in ops DMs a Google invite, adds them to Slack, drops them into Notion, and shares a Trello board. Invoice clears in week seven. Nobody revokes anything. In October the designer still has admin on the client Slack and a lingering Drive folder with last year’s pitch deck. The CISO at a bank would call this standing privilege. The ops manager at the agency calls it Tuesday. There is no CISO.
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Analysts keep printing about $41–$42 billion by 2030 for identity and access management as a whole.
The closer quantified adjacency is access control: MarketsandMarkets puts the market at USD 10.62 billion in 2025, heading to USD 15.80 billion by 2030 at an 8.3% CAGR.
Suggested stack: Next.js (App Router, TypeScript) on Vercel, Clerk or WorkOS, Slack and Google OAuth plus SCIM, Inngest, Postgres (Supabase, Neon, or RDS), Stripe Billing. Weekend scope: about 10 hours.
The Problem
A 14-person agency hires a freelance designer for a six-week brand sprint. Someone in ops DMs a Google invite, adds them to Slack, drops them into Notion, and shares a Trello…
The Solution
Tempkey grants contractor access with an expiration date as a first-class field, from one dashboard, across the tools a lean team actually uses: Slack, Google Workspace, Notion…
Market Research
IAM as a category is huge and mostly not your customer. Analysts keep printing about $41–$42 billion by 2030 for identity and access management as a whole. That number is Okta…
Competitive Landscape
CyberArk — Category-defining privileged access management. Session control, vaulting, enterprise identity security. Strength: brand, auditors, depth. Weakness: high-touch custom…
Business Model
Access Management Guide ($0) — PDF / email gate: how to run contractor access without PAM. SEO bait. Do not pay $300 CPC against “privileged access management.”
Recommended Tech Stack
Next.js (App Router, TypeScript) on Vercel — Admin UI, connection flow, audit views. Server actions for grants; never put vendor tokens in the browser.
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1. Project Setup
Build the weekend MVP of "Tempkey": give a contractor access to a Trello board with an end date, warn two days before, and remove them automatically when the date arrives. One tool this weekend, because it is the one with an open API for adding and removing members. Stack: Next.js (App Router, TypeScript), Tailwind, Supabase (Postgres, Row Level Security, Auth with email magic link), the Trello REST API with a key and a token you paste in, Resend for the warning emails. A cron route runs the warn and revoke steps (hourly on a plan that allows it, otherwise daily to start). Deploy on Vercel. Tables (Row Level Security on, each admin reads only their own rows): - connections(id, user_id, provider, token_encrypted, status) - grants(id, user_id, contractor_name, contractor_email, board_ref, role, starts_at, ends_at, status, created_by) status is pending, active, warned, revoked or failed - notices(id, grant_id, kind, sent_at) kind is warning or revoked; unique on grant_id and kind - audit_events(id, grant_id, user_id, action, provider, payload jsonb, created_at) Screens: /login, /connect (the Trello key and token), /grants (who is in, days left, filter by status), /grants/new, /audit (events and a CSV export). Env vars (names only): NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL, NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY (server only), RESEND_API_KEY, CRON_SECRET, TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY. Do not build: billing or plans, Slack, Google Workspace or Notion connections, SCIM, Inngest or a queue, session recording, an enterprise login. Done when: npm run dev starts, you can sign in, and the four tables exist with Row Level Security on.
2. Core Feature
Build the one feature that proves Tempkey: access that ends on the day it was meant to, with a warning first and a record of every step. 1. The grant form takes a contractor's name and email, a Trello board and a role, and an end date or a 30, 60 or 90 day preset. On submit, add the person to the board through the Trello API, save the grant as active and write an audit event. 2. A cron route (protected by CRON_SECRET) finds active grants whose end is within 48 hours and sends the warning to the contractor and the owner through Resend. Record it in notices so it is sent once, and set the grant to warned. 3. The same route finds grants past their end date and removes the member from the board through the Trello API. On success set revoked and send a notice. On failure keep the status failed, retry up to 3 times with backoff on later runs, then email the owner. Never fail silently. 4. If the stored token stops working, show a banner on the dashboard and email the owner. 5. The grants page lists every grant with days left and a status filter. /audit exports the events as CSV. 6. Write the scheduler as a pure function over the grants and a clock. Unit test it with frozen times: nothing before 48 hours, one warning in the window, one revoke after the end, no repeat on a second run. Rules: encrypt the token and never log it. Say plainly that this tool only controls what its token can reach. Do not claim it replaces an identity product. Empty state: before connecting, show the connect form and how to create a Trello key and token. Done when: the scheduler tests pass, a grant with an end date 3 days away is warned and then revoked by two cron runs with the clock moved, a forced Trello error is retried and then emailed to the owner, and the CSV lists every step.
3. Landing Page
Build a one-page landing site for Tempkey, contractor access that clocks out when the contract does. Hero: "Access that ends when the contract does." Sub: "Add a contractor with an end date. We warn them two days before and remove them on the day, with a record of it." One button: Join the waitlist. Sections: the problem (lingering guests and a console for every tool), how it works in four steps (connect, grant with an end date, warn, revoke), a sample audit list, and an FAQ on which tools work first (Trello now, others as their admin APIs allow), what happens if a removal fails (you are told) and why this is not a privileged access product. Waitlist: store the email in a waitlist table in Supabase. No other service. Style: Geist, off-white and near-black, one steel-blue accent, a screenshot of the grant form and no fortress illustration. Done when: the page renders on a phone and a submitted email appears in the waitlist table.
4. Branding Package
Use a design or image tool for this one. A coding agent cannot draw a logo. Brand for Tempkey: a wordmark and an icon of a key with a small clock window. Colors: near-black, paper off-white and steel blue (#2563eb). Type: Geist for the interface, IBM Plex Mono for grant ids and timestamps. Deliverables: wordmark, icon, four grant status chips (active, warned, revoked, failed) that differ by shape as well as color, three Slack-style message variants under 200 characters (grant created, warning, revoked), and one launch graphic. Voice rules: talk to ops managers, always mention the warning before the removal, never claim to replace an identity product. Done when: each deliverable is saved in one folder and each message variant is under 200 characters.