Legacy
Not just paperwork. The deeds, the policies, the passwords, the safe combination — and the letter you've been meaning to write for eleven years.
The four letters
An estate is more than a document.
An estate is more than a document.
It's four jobs nobody hands over.
Lawyers draft the will. Banks hold the money. Nobody owns the part in between — the knowing where everything is, and the getting it to the right hands. That's the job LICK takes.
Inheritance
Every asset mapped to a person, in your own words, while you're still here to be asked. No guessing, no assuming, no siblings deciding what you meant.
Continuity
The bills keep arriving after a death. Businesses keep needing signatures. The weeks of nobody-knows are where estates quietly bleed value.
Keeper
A vault that stays shut while you're living, and opens exactly when — and to exactly whom — you said it should. Nothing more, nothing sooner.
Why estates go wrong
It's rarely the will that fails.
It's rarely the will that fails.
It's everything around it.
The will exists. Nobody can find it.
It's in a safe-deposit box the bank sealed on the day of death. It's a draft on a laptop nobody can unlock. It's with a solicitor who retired in 2019. A document nobody can produce is a document that doesn't exist.
The assets exist. Nobody knows about them.
A pension from a job three careers ago. A paid-up policy that names a beneficiary who was never told. A seed phrase on a scrap of paper. Wealth doesn't have to be hidden to be lost — it only has to be unmentioned.
The instructions exist. Only in your head.
Which account to close first. Who gets the ring, and why. Who to call about the dog. Which of your wishes are legally binding and which are simply what you wanted. Grief is a terrible time to reverse-engineer someone's intentions.
How it works
Three decisions. Then it just keeps watch.
Most people put this off because step one feels like an afternoon with a lawyer. It isn't. It's twenty minutes and a checklist that already knows what to ask you.
Fill the vault
Upload documents, list accounts, record instructions. Guided checklists by category — property, policies, digital, personal — so you're never staring at a blank page wondering what you've forgotten.
Name your keyholders
Choose who can open what — your executor, your spouse, your attorney, your business partner. The vault key is split between them, so no single person, and no employee of ours, can open it alone.
Set the release
Proof-of-life check-ins, a keyholder quorum, a filed death certificate, or a date you choose. You decide what opens the vault, and LICK holds the line until exactly that happens — and not before.
Inside the vault
Built for the day it's actually used.
Everything here answers one question: when a stranger in grief opens this, will they know what to do next?
Guided estate inventory
Category-by-category prompts that surface the things people forget: old pensions, foreign accounts, digital assets, the storage unit.
Executor handoff pack
One PDF, ordered the way probate actually runs: what to do this week, who to call, which document proves what, and where the originals live.
Versioning that settles arguments
Every document keeps its history with a timestamp and a hash, so the current will is provably the current will — and the superseded one can't be waved around.
Proof-of-life check-ins
A quiet nudge on your schedule — monthly, quarterly, yearly. Miss enough of them and the release sequence begins, with generous warnings first.
Beneficiary mapping
Attach a person and a reason to every asset. Your words, in your voice, arriving at the moment they carry the most weight.
Scoped advisor access
Give your solicitor or accountant read-only sight of exactly the folder they need, with an expiry date and an entry in the audit log.
Security posture
If we can read it,
If we can read it,
so can someone else.
So we designed ourselves out of it. Your vault is encrypted before it leaves your device, and the key is never whole on our side. A subpoena, a rogue employee, a breach of our servers — each of them gets the same thing: ciphertext.
- Client-side AES-256-GCMEncryption and key derivation happen in your browser. Plaintext never touches our infrastructure.
- Split-key releaseShamir secret sharing across your keyholders. No single shard — including any we ever hold — reveals anything.
- Append-only audit logEvery view, export and permission change is recorded permanently and visible to you — and, after release, to your executor.
- No lock-in, everExport the whole vault as plain files and a printable pack at any time. A legacy plan you can't take with you isn't a plan.
Your key, split three ways
Lose one shard and nothing is lost. Hold one shard and nothing is gained.
Planned pricing
Priced to be kept for decades.
A vault that lapses is worse than no vault at all, so the entry tier stays free permanently — not free for a year.
Keeper
Freealways
The essentials, so nobody is locked out by price.
- Up to 25 documents
- 1 keyholder
- Executor handoff pack
- Full export, any time
Legacy
$9/ month
For a whole estate, with the release logic that makes it real.
- Unlimited documents & assets
- Split-key release, up to 5 keyholders
- Proof-of-life check-ins
- Beneficiary mapping & sealed letters
- Scoped advisor access
Estate
$29/ month
Households, family offices and anyone holding a business.
- Everything in Legacy
- Up to 6 linked vaults
- Business continuity playbooks
- Notary & witness coordination
- Priority human support
Indicative pricing for the beta. Founding members keep their rate for the life of the account.
Questions
The ones
The ones
worth asking.
Something not covered? Ask it in the note field when you request an invite — those get read by a person.
Is LICK a will, or a replacement for a lawyer?
Neither. A will is a legal instrument that has to satisfy the rules of your jurisdiction — signatures, witnesses, sometimes notarisation. LICK is where that instrument lives, alongside everything it doesn't mention: the accounts, the passwords, the context, the instructions. We'll tell you when something needs a lawyer. We won't pretend to be one.
What actually opens the vault?
You choose the trigger when you set it up. The common ones are a keyholder quorum (two of your three named people agreeing), a missed sequence of proof-of-life check-ins, a filed death certificate, or a fixed date. Whatever you pick, there's a waiting period with alerts to you first — so a mistake, or a keyholder acting early, never becomes irreversible.
What stops a keyholder from opening it while I'm alive?
Two things. The key is split, so one person's shard is mathematically useless on its own. And any attempt to begin a release notifies you immediately through every channel you've registered, and starts a countdown you can cancel with a single tap. Keyholders are chosen for the day you're gone, not given a spare set of keys today.
What happens if LICK the company disappears?
Your vault survives us. Every account can export a full, plainly-encrypted archive plus a printable executor pack at any moment, and we're committing to a published wind-down policy before general release: advance notice, an automatic final export sent to you and your keyholders, and open-sourced decryption tooling. A vault that depends on our continued existence isn't a vault — it's a subscription.
Can you read my documents? Can you be forced to?
No, and that's a design property rather than a promise. Encryption happens in your browser before upload, and we never hold a complete key. If we're served with a valid legal order, we can hand over what we have: encrypted blobs and account metadata. We publish what we're compelled to disclose, to the extent the law allows us to say so.
Where is my data held?
Encrypted at rest in your chosen region — US or EU — with geographically separate backups inside that same region. Region is picked at signup and never silently moved.
What does the beta actually involve?
Small waves, so we can talk to everyone. You'll get an invite, a real vault, and a short conversation with us about what broke or felt wrong. Beta accounts keep founding-member pricing permanently. We'd rather have two hundred people who tell us the truth than twenty thousand who quietly leave.
Private beta
Put it somewhere they'll find it.
We're opening LICK in small waves. Tell us a little about your situation and we'll place you in the right one — and yes, a person reads every note.
You're on the list.
We'll email you when your wave opens. If you left a question, you'll get an answer before that.