After my father was diagnosed with Stage 3 kidney cancer, my family was thrown into a tailspin. Getting second opinions, planning surgery, ensuring insurance coverage, coping with the fear. It was a lot to process.

In the middle of dealing with all the medical logistics, I realized none of our family could answer if he: - Had a medical directive? - How to trigger his life insurance policy? - Where is his will and who is the executor? - What bank accounts and credit cards existed? - What bills are not on auto-pay? - When these bills due and how are they paid?

That wasn’t solved by password managers or budgeting apps. So I built it.

LastShelf: automatically discovers, documents and distributes a map of critical life documents, expenses & contacts in the event of an emergency. Register here: https://www.lastshelf.ai/

If you’ve lived through a similar crisis, I really want to hear what would have made the process easier.

Anyone who shares their feedback with me will get the first year free. Send a note to support [at] lastshelf.ai

My experience estate planning is that there are a lot of sensitive details in the documents. The tried a true method is the estate planning binder. Typically there is a worksheet to guide with the collection of information and then trusted parties review and find the missing details and then also work through the complex planning part. LLMs have, this far, not been good at that.

In the last 20 that I've done the biggest hurdle has been sitting down to do the work. A smarter worksheet doesn't solve the human problem of: "I'll get to this later".

Another critical part this doesn't handle is having a trusted party to help during the shit storm. Your estate lawyer and/or executor provide more than organized data.

Critical stuff like this is definitely a good idea to delegate to an LLM.

a hundred dollars a year for this?? What does the service even do with that money? I pay this for 20 years so you can share a google doc upon my demise?

I must be missing something.

One thing that I couldn't understand from the website: how is this triggered?

This sounds useful, but I also want an automated way to distribute the information when needed. Maybe a dead man's switch of sorts?

For example, suppose I'm a single adult, and I set this all up. Then I go for a hike and disappear forever. How can the trigger of distribution happen?

I have a keepass file that I keep fairly updated on multiple places, my phone being up to date.

A trusted family member has its password which is in their keepass.

In the event I am not around, I expect them to find the password and open the keepass.

Its less complicated this way

Love this - awesome release.