Calm by design
No aggressive nudges, no dark patterns. Fill it out at your own pace — the companion gently guides you when you come back.
Who would know where your things are, if you weren’t here to ask?
Most legal wills are written for a world without passwords. Afterword is the companion to your will — a secure, organized home for the credentials, documents, and accounts your executor will actually need to close out your affairs.
Free while we’re in early access · US residents · Private by design
— a story we’ve heard more than once.
Monday, 7am. I logged in. His bank’s number was already there — I didn’t have to hunt for it. I called. They asked for his middle name. It was in the notes. The password manager was locked. I didn’t have the master phrase. But the email login was in Afterword — that was all I needed.
Wednesday. Three subscriptions I didn’t know about, each with a small note next to it. Cancel this — auto-bills in October. Keep until the kids start school. I cancelled the first two from the kitchen table in twenty minutes. Two months ago, that would have been twenty hours.
Saturday. The funeral home asked what he’d wanted. I knew. He’d typed three short paragraphs — the music, the reading, the people to call before anyone else. I read them out loud. They printed the program before lunch.
Our posture
Four small commitments that shape everything else.
Private by default
Credentials are encrypted with AES-256 before they ever touch the database. Documents are stored behind short-lived, signed links — never public URLs.
Only unlocked when it matters
Your executor can’t see anything until an unlock request is initiated — and you can deny it with a single click during the waiting window you choose.
Built for a real executor
Everything an executor needs is in four clear sections: credentials, legal documents, assets, and the people involved. No password-manager sprawl.
What goes inside
Four sections, nothing more.
Afterword deliberately keeps the scope small. We’re not trying to replace your password manager or your lawyer — we’re capturing the specific things an executor needs on day one.
- CHAPTER I
Credentials
The skeleton-key set: computer login, phone PIN, and email passwords. With these three, an executor can recover almost anything else via two-factor codes and account recovery.
- CHAPTER II
Legal documents
A simple checklist for wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and life insurance. Upload a copy; we store it privately.
- CHAPTER III
Asset inventory
Bank and brokerage accounts, subscriptions to cancel, loans to notify, and where the physical mail still shows up.
- CHAPTER IV
People
Your executor, an optional witness, and how long you want the waiting window to be if an unlock is ever requested.
The handoff
You stay in control until you can't be.
Two paths to open
Nothing is ever unlocked automatically. When your executor requests access, you’re notified immediately and can deny it in one click during the delay you chose — anywhere from zero to seventy-two hours. You can also name a witness who must actively confirm before access opens.
- Executors can’t see anything until an unlock request is approved.
- Instant notification to you, the moment a request starts.
- Cancel an unlock at any point during the waiting window.
- Name a witness and access only unlocks on their confirmation.
A patient guide
A companion that helps, without prying.
The built-in companion knows only what you’ve finished and what’s left to do. It never sees your actual passwords, account numbers, or the contents of your documents — just progress, so it can gently help you keep going.
Knows progress, never contents.
What we’re not
Things Afterword isn’t.
A short post-script. There are a handful of useful things this isn’t — worth saying out loud, so you can decide whether it belongs in your life.
- Not a password manager.
- Your password manager is the right tool for every password you have. This holds the three keys your family will actually need.
- Not a lawyer.
- We don’t write wills, execute estates, or give legal advice. Keep your attorney.
- Not a tax advisor.
- We don’t file returns or plan your estate’s tax strategy.
- Not a vault for everything you own.
- We store documents, not deeds. Credentials, not keys to safes.
- Not a notification service for your bank.
- When the time comes, a human will still make those calls.
Built with care
The trust is the product.
Every choice of infrastructure is in service of one outcome: the right person sees the right thing at the right moment.
Encrypted at rest
AES-256-GCM on every credential, in addition to Supabase’s own at-rest encryption.
Private storage
Documents live in a private bucket with row-level security. Retrieval is always through short-lived, signed links.
No third-party tracking
We don’t sell your data. We don’t run ad pixels. This is not that kind of product.
Built on Supabase & Vercel
Modern, well-audited infrastructure — not a weekend project on someone’s laptop.
Read the full details on our security page.
The smallest thing you can do today, for the hardest week of their lives.
Afterword takes an afternoon to set up and updates in a few minutes a year. It’s the sort of quiet gift your family will only notice when they need it most.
A letter to the people you love — sealed until it's time.