HeirVault
For people who carry real risk
Leave contingency handoffs for named editors, counsel, colleagues, or family. Keep checking in so nothing opens. If check-ins stop past the waiting period, only the contacts you name can claim.
Contingency vault
Encrypted until release rules fire
Editor handoff
Encrypted · named beneficiary
Counsel note
Encrypted · named beneficiary
Trusted contact
Claim held until waiting period ends
Status
Handoffs encrypted
Encrypted on your device
Held
This is for you if
Journalists. Government and civil service. Advocates. Investigators. Anyone who needs beneficiaries to get encrypted instructions if they cannot check in.
The path
Same vault mechanics. Click a step anytime.
End-to-end encrypted
Docs, logins, bank details, and files encrypt before upload.
Joint checking
Bank account · for Esme
Keys stay with you
Nothing readable
Beneficiaries claim only what you designated. Nothing becomes public by default.
Why they can trust it
Your live vault encrypts in your browser before upload. That means HeirVault stores ciphertext and timing state, and cannot decrypt your live vault. That removes vendor plaintext as one risk.
Shield when cadence is tight
Same leave-and-claim path as Free and Pro. Choose Shield only if you need shorter intervals, device API keys, or a priority claim email queue.
Script or device keys so check-ins happen without opening the web app.
From 1 day, with a waiting period you set between 3 and 14 days.
When release starts, claim and reminder emails drain ahead of the standard queue. Reminder emails (pre-due, mid waiting period, countdown) ship on every plan.
Honest limits
Timed release is powerful. It is not a full threat model.
Go deeper
Journalists
Contingency handoffs for an editor or counsel if you cannot check in.
Families
Store will copies, policies, and notes. We do not draft wills.
Crypto holders
Seed phrases and wallet instructions as encrypted docs, with honest OPSEC.
Founders
Continuity docs for co-founders, counsel, and operators.
Security model
What we can see, what we cannot, and how release timing works.
Yes. Miss check-ins, pass the waiting period, then beneficiaries can claim what you designated. HeirVault is a dead man's switch for docs, passwords, and files with a claim portal, not a single blast email timer.
People whose work or role creates personal risk if they go silent: journalists, government and civil servants, investigators, advocates, and others who need contingency handoffs for named editors, counsel, colleagues, or family.
Editors, lawyers, trusted colleagues, partners, family, or anyone you trust with a specific encrypted handoff. Release goes to beneficiaries you name, not to the open internet.
Free and Pro allow 7 to 365 days. Shield allows intervals from 1 day and waiting period between 3 and 14 days.
Witnesses confirm before beneficiaries get access. They do not stop coerced check-ins. For device-level coercion, Shield adds a duress passphrase with a decoy vault and silent alert.
No. Your live vault is protected by end-to-end, zero-knowledge encryption. Contents encrypt in your browser before upload, so HeirVault cannot decrypt your live vault. Assisted delivery stores a handoff key only for that beneficiary's handoff and is not end-to-end to the beneficiary alone.