SafeHerit is a digital inheritance platform designed to help your family find the information they need to identify and claim your assets if something happens to you. You decide what information each beneficiary should receive and under what conditions. What makes SafeHerit different is extreme privacy: your data is encrypted on your device before it reaches our servers, using private keys that stay with you and your beneficiaries. This means nobody else (not even SafeHerit!) can read your data.
We built SafeHerit around a simple question: if you were hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow, would the people closest to you actually know everything you own and where to find it?
Back in the old days, when most people's wealth was concentrated in a property, a bank account and a retirement plan, the answer was often an easy yes. Today, for a growing number of people, it is not so obvious.
Nowadays it's increasingly common to have multiple bank and brokerage accounts, insurance policies, properties, business interests, crypto wallets and important documents, spread across different institutions, devices, websites and sometimes even countries. And you are often the only person who knows about all of them.
So what happens when you are no longer there? We've all heard (or been part of in our case!) stories of heirs struggling to piece together what their relatives left behind. With more of our financial lives moving online, that problem is only getting harder. Having experienced it from the heir side ourselves, we wanted to build something that would spare our own families from going through the same nightmare.
The tricky part was privacy. The information your family may need after your death is usually highly confidential, and not something you want sitting somewhere it can easily be found while you are alive. But when the time comes, you want the right people to be able to find it.
That dilemma shaped SafeHerit's architecture.
In practical terms, you decide what information each beneficiary should receive, and under what conditions it becomes available to them.
From a privacy perspective, sensitive information is encrypted on your own device before it is transmitted to our servers. The private keys needed to decrypt it stay with you and are never sent to SafeHerit. Each beneficiary also has their own key. This means the information you leave behind can only be decrypted by you and your designated beneficiaries. No one else, not even SafeHerit, can read it.
This is commonly known as zero-knowledge encryption, and it was important to us because we don't think that solving this inheritance problem should require giving another company access to some of the most sensitive information you have.
SafeHerit is not a replacement for a will or professional estate planning. We see it as the missing information layer: a way to make sure what you have built does not become lost simply because you are no longer there to point out where everything is.
If you disappeared tomorrow, what is the one account, wallet, policy or document your family would probably never find?