IvorySafe walks you through gathering the information your family would scramble for in a crisis. It's personalized to your life, encrypted end-to-end, and structured so the people you love can act, not search.
One partner usually handles certain things. The other handles the rest. Neither has the full picture, and most of it lives in someone's head.
If one of you is suddenly unavailable, the other has to figure out everything alone. Usually during the worst week of their life. IvorySafe closes that gap before it matters.
You don't fill out a generic checklist. The platform learns about your life first, then asks for the right information in the right order.
A short assessment covers the basics: family, work, home, finances. Takes about 10 minutes.
Each section walks you through what to gather, with guided mini-quizzes that ask the right questions for your situation. Do it at your pace.
Pick the people you'd want to have access if something happened to you. Set a waiting period for each, so you have time to respond if there's a false alarm.
Every section is shaped by your onboarding answers, so your vault is organized around your life and the way your family would look for things, not a generic template.
Who's in your household, their key details, and the people they depend on.
Bank accounts, investments, credit cards, debts, and how money moves through your life.
Every policy your family would need to know about, with the contact info they would need to use them.
The accountant, lawyer, financial advisor, and other professionals who already know your situation.
The people you trust to act on your behalf, with custom waiting periods and an attempt to reach you first.
Wills, advance directives, funeral preferences, and the decisions you want your family to make on your behalf.
Your data is encrypted on your device before it leaves it. IvorySafe holds the encrypted file. We don't hold the key. That's not a marketing claim, it's how the system is engineered.
Encryption happens in your browser. The version we store is unreadable without your password.
If someone shows up with a warrant, we have nothing readable to hand over. We physically cannot decrypt your data.
Hosted on Digital Ocean with AWS for encrypted storage and backups. Multi-factor authentication is required for every account.
A walkthrough using the default 1-week waiting period. You can change this for each contact when you set them up.
They log into their free IvorySafe account and file a report that you're deceased or incapacitated. Before it goes through, we ask them to confirm the report, and we tell them exactly what will happen if they do, so nothing is set in motion by accident.
You get an immediate notification by text and email. If it's a false alarm, that message includes a link to a confirmation page where you can cancel the report without logging in. Your contacts were already told that IvorySafe would try to reach you first.
The clock started the moment the report was filed. As long as you don't respond, it keeps counting down. Throughout the waiting period, IvorySafe continues to send you texts and emails, so you have every chance to cancel before access can transfer. This window exists to protect against a report made in error.
If you never cancel the report, access opens as each contact's waiting period ends. Every window started the moment the report was filed, so the contact with the shortest waiting period is the first to get read access to your vault, and the others follow as theirs pass.
Your contacts have 12 months from the report date to use everything and get things in order. At any time during that year, they can export the entire vault as a PDF and keep a permanent copy, so nothing is lost when access ends.
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You don't need a free afternoon or a perfect plan. Pull out your phone, answer a few questions, and start with what's easy. You can come back to the rest whenever.