Questions, answered plainly.

GuardKin is an estate operational readiness platform. It’s the secure place a family records what their executor and loved ones will actually need — accounts, documents, access notes, and personal letters — so that when something happens, the people they love aren’t left playing detective. Wealth-management firms hand it to their clients as a premium offering, and families can also subscribe directly.

No. GuardKin doesn’t replace your will, your trust, or your attorney — it’s the operational layer around them. Your estate documents say who gets what; GuardKin makes sure your family can find everything, reach the right people, and act, at the moment it matters. We don’t give legal or financial advice.

Because the hard part for most families isn’t the legal paperwork — it’s the logistics. Which bank, which advisor, where the documents live, how to get into the accounts, who to call first. GuardKin is the readiness for that operational reality, organized while you’re here so it doesn’t fall on them while they’re grieving.

You designate the people who should receive access — typically an executor and close family. While you’re well, they see nothing. On verified incapacity or death, access is released to exactly those people, scoped to exactly what you intended, and every step is written to an immutable audit record. It opens as a clear, organized handoff — not an archaeological dig.

No. Most people arrive because their advisor recommended it and the firm covers the license — but a direct subscription is fully supported, and your rights on the platform are identical either way. If you start with a firm and later unlink, your vault continues as yours.

The things your family would otherwise have to reconstruct: a map of accounts and institutions, key documents and where the originals live, access and contact notes, and personal messages you want delivered. You decide what goes in; nothing is required, and you can update it anytime.

Only the shape of the estate they’re entrusted to help coordinate, and only with your consent — never the sensitive contents. The detailed truth is reserved for the family at the right moment. The advisor’s view exists to help them serve you, not to surveil you.

Your sensitive content is encrypted in your browser, with keys our servers have never seen, before anything is stored. We hold ciphertext. If we were subpoenaed, we could only hand over noise — because that’s genuinely all we have. It’s not a promise not to look; it’s an architecture that can’t.

No. The content keys never reach our servers, so there is no internal console, support tool, or admin permission that decrypts your sensitive content. This is enforced at the data-model level, not as a setting someone could flip.

On the Trust Center and Security pages. They cover the encryption design, an independent cryptography review, our SOC 2 Type II posture (in preparation, targeted Q4 2026 — on track for the next 4–6 months), subprocessors, data residency, and our security questionnaire for infosec teams. We publish honest status — never a certification we don’t yet hold.

GuardKin is a white-glove offering you extend to your high-net-worth clients. The relationship stays yours; we’re the infrastructure behind it. It deepens trust at the moments that matter most — incapacity and the wealth transfer — and gives the next generation a reason to stay with you. See the For Firms page for implementation, SLAs, and pilot terms.

Yes. Direct subscriptions are supported with the same rights and the same architecture firms get. See the For Clients and For Executors & Families pages, and join the launch list to be notified when direct signups open.

For firms, pricing is tiered by scale — see the Pricing page. For individuals, direct plans start at $14/month, with family and a one-time lifetime option. If your firm provides GuardKin, your license is covered by them.

Exporting your own data, in standard formats, is free forever — regardless of subscription status. And the executor and family experience itself, including crisis-mode access at the moment it’s needed, is free for the people receiving it. They should never hit a paywall while grieving.

GuardKin is pre-general-availability and launching with a pilot cohort of wealth-management firms in late 2026. You can book a walkthrough, start a pilot conversation, or join the launch list for direct signups now.

You keep everything. Our continuity commitments — source-code escrow, an encrypted-data custodian, free export at any time, and a 12-month wind-down — mean your vault outlives the company. A platform meant for the long term has to be built to survive its own vendor.

Both are one decision you control. Revoking a designation takes effect immediately; no firm contract overrides it. Leaving a firm unlinks the relationship while your vault continues as your own. Your data is yours — that’s architectural, not a courtesy.