Become a Key expert
There’s a new way to get paid for your rarest talent: your taste.
No tour to run, no merch to warehouse, no sponsors to manage. With Key, travellers book 30-minute paid video calls to learn from your expertise: the best coffee roasteries, the hidden hikes worth planning around. You become the key to unlocking their best travel experiences.
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The bartender
Knows which bars are serving the most creative drinks in the city right now.
The chef
Explains which ingredients are unique to the region, and where to order them at their best.
The curator
The show closing next week that nobody has written about yet.
The outdoors guide
The trailhead that avoids the coach parties.
Experts, not guides-for-hire
People whose taste is their profession: bartenders, chefs, curators, designers, guides. Curated and deliberately limited: every profile is vetted by a human before it goes live, and there are no hidden sponsors anywhere on Key. That promise is why travellers trust your list, and why being on the platform means something.
Like a tour, without the hassle
Think of it as giving a tour without having to race across town to meet clients, no bad weather, no noisy crowds. Just a personal call, from home, from the bar between shifts, from wherever you choose to be.
And none of the complications: every tip and place you mention is captured by the room itself: pinned, recorded, transcribed. The traveller leaves with everything, and you leave with nothing to write up.
Built to fit around everything else you do
Key isn’t asking you to change careers. Calls sit alongside the bar, the kitchen, the studio, the next book, and quietly make the rest of it work harder.
Between projects
Calls fill the quiet weeks: revenue with no setup, no stock and no shifts.
Research you get paid for
Every call shows you what travellers are actually curious about, useful for whatever you build next.
Your following, finally
The advice you already give away in DMs becomes a half hour people are happy to book.
Thirty minutes, fully equipped
Calls happen in the browser, no apps. You and your traveller share a live map: drop pins as you talk, draw routes, open pages together. Everything you recommend is captured automatically: recorded, transcribed, and delivered as a personal map they take on the trip.
No preparation beyond being yourself, no follow-up homework. The platform does the note-taking.
Getting set up is the easy part
Step 1
Apply
A few lines about you. A human reads every application.
Step 2
Onboard with Stripe
Identity and bank details go to Stripe directly, as an individual or a business. Key never sees them.
Step 3
Make it yours
Profile, price, and the hours you're bookable. All changeable later.
Step 4
Take your first call
A fifteen-second tour of the room to start, and your 80% transfers automatically.
Want the details first? The expert guide covers everything from vetting to payouts, and the expert questions cover the rest.
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A few lines is enough: who you are, what you know, where to see your work. A human reads every application.