Below are the situations that bring people to look for a place like this. The first is the most common.
You signed the consent form. They explained the risks and you understood them. Statistically, it will be fine.
But the evening before, you realise nobody in the house knows the laptop password. That the gas bill comes to your inbox. That the flat deeds are scanned into a folder only you can find. That there is an account where money accumulates and nobody knows which bank. That the photos from your parents wedding are on an old phone in a drawer.
You are not afraid for yourself. You are afraid that if things go badly, the people left behind will carry the weight of paperwork on top of their own.
Not everything at once. It goes piece by piece, over months, and each piece costs time, money and nerves exactly when nobody has any.
| What | What happens without access | How long the official route takes |
|---|---|---|
| Online accounts | Payments continue automatically or stop abruptly. Nobody knows how many there are. | Each provider requires a death certificate and a certificate of inheritance. Weeks, for each one. |
| Scanned documents | The family searches drawers and old email. Sometimes only the scan exists. | Reissued by the issuing institution. Months, if possible at all. |
| Photos and films | Stuck on a locked phone or in a cloud whose subscription lapses. | Usually unrecoverable. |
| Passwords | Without them, nothing else opens. | No procedure exists. |
| Cryptocurrency | Without the seed phrase, gone for good. | Never. |
| What you wanted to tell them | Never arrives. | Cannot be reconstructed. |
An email or cloud account is not a solution. Large providers close inactive accounts, and heirs access to them is a separate, lengthy legal process with an uncertain outcome.
The password becomes the key. It is turned into a key on your own phone or laptop, not with us.
We generate it in the browser. Without it, a forgotten password means permanently lost data. Put it exactly where you keep your important papers.
The property deeds, a list of accounts and where they are, and the photos you cannot lose. A vault you started is far better than a perfect vault you never build.
There is a template, "Where the important papers are". It is not a legal document, it is a map. For a will you need a notary.
You do not give them the password. You only tell them where the sheet is. That is all.
In the current version, the vault does not open itself for anyone. There is no mechanism that detects that you have died and forwards the key. If you want your family to be able to get in, you have to leave them the backup code. This is a design choice, not an omission: any automatic mechanism would mean somebody, at some point, could open the vault without you.
Transport, construction, an assignment abroad, endurance sport. The situation is recurring, not exceptional.
Here you are not the one leaving. You are the one staying, who has to cope.
Invoicing, hosting passwords, the accountant contract, where the electronic signature is.
The clearest and most brutal case.
You work with sources and documents that must not reach the wrong people, sometimes from places where your phone can be demanded at the border.
Hosting passwords, API keys, ad account access, all belonging to other people who entrusted them to you.
Lab results, medical letters, prescriptions, imaging. You request them from one doctor to another and nobody has them all in one place.
You keep them saved in Chrome or Safari, synced across everything you own, one step away from anyone who opens your laptop.
An Excel file or a sheet of paper with all your passwords, that you keep hunting for and keep misplacing.
A few people, a handful of shared accounts, a folder of documents passed from one to another.
API keys, .env files, access tokens, scattered across projects and old messages.
Not everyone comes because of death. Some just want a place where documents do not mix with memes.