About
Why this exists.
GuardKin is built by two founders, a wealth advisor and a technologist, so that a family does not spend the year after a death searching for what the person left.
The problem
Grief and paperwork arrive together.
When someone dies, the people who loved them spend the following year, sometimes two, doing archaeological work. They hunt for bank accounts whose statements stopped arriving when paper statements stopped being standard. They try to remember what kind of life insurance was through the employer and what kind was bought privately. They call institutions whose procedures they do not know, and speak to representatives reading from scripts written for efficient call handling rather than for people in grief.
They do this work during the worst period of their lives. The bureaucracy does not pause for grief. The grief does not pause for the bureaucracy.
GuardKin exists to remove the administrative chaos that compounds grief, so that when the hardest week of someone’s life arrives, they know what they need to know, in the order they need to know it, from a source they can trust.
A GuardKin has been released to you
You’ve been named Sarah Chen’s executor.
Sarah Chen trusted you with this. Sarah Chen’s GuardKin has been released to you because a death was verified and the waiting period has passed. Nothing has been opened yet — that is your decision to make next.
What this means
An executor steps in after a death to settle the estate. The records released to you are the ones that were marked for an executor — not necessarily everything.
- Your role
- Executor
- Opened so far
- Nothing
The next step is to formally accept this role. You’ll be asked to write, in your own words, that you accept it. This is a one-time decision and it is recorded — both for Sarah Chen and for anyone who later reviews how the estate was handled.
Sample household. Names and figures come from the app’s own demo vault, not a real client.
Who builds it
Two founders.
A practicing wealth advisor and a technologist: the fiduciary’s view and the engineering, together.
Cameron M. Reid
Co-founder, wealth advisor
A practicing private wealth advisor (CFP®, CRPC®, CPFA®) and Partner at West Capital Wealth Management. Cameron has spent his career helping families build long-term plans and protect what they’ve built, and brings the fiduciary’s view to GuardKin. MBA, Berkeley Haas.
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Koundinya Lanka
Co-founder, product and security
An enterprise AI and go-to-market leader who has led technology transformation across large organizations. A serial builder of AI and developer tools, Koundinya owns GuardKin’s product, platform and security architecture. EMBA, Berkeley Haas.
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The company
Where it stands today.
- Entity
- GuardKin LLC
- A California LLC.
- Founders
- Reid and Lanka
- Co-founders: an advisor and a technologist.
- Stage
- Pre-launch
- Not generally available. A pilot cohort is forming.
- Compliance
- SOC 2
- In preparation. GuardKin holds no SOC 2 report today.
Read how it is built.
How saved records are encrypted in the browser, and what each person can see, is written out in public.