Legacy letters
The things you’d want said, if you weren’t there to say them.
Write letters now that your family receives only after you’re gone — released by people you choose, not by a machine guessing. A will handles your possessions. This handles everything else.
How a letter gets released
The mechanism matters more than the features here, so here it is in full.
You nominate trusted contacts
People who would know. They’re told they’ve been chosen and have to accept the role — nobody is enrolled silently.
A majority has to agree, independently
More than half of your trusted contacts must confirm separately, and never fewer than two once you’ve named two or more. We recommend naming at least two: with a single contact, their word alone can start a release, so the waiting period is 30 days instead of 7.
Then a waiting period, always
Nothing is sent the moment they confirm. Your letters wait at least 7 days (30 with a single contact, longer if you choose), and we email you when the wait starts, 3 days before it ends and the day before. One click on “I’m alive” stops it, and nothing is sent.
Your letters reach the people you addressed them to
Each letter goes to its own recipient, with enough context that it isn’t mistaken for spam by someone who has never heard of us.
Common questions
“Could my letters be released while I’m alive?”
It would take a majority of your own trusted contacts confirming (at least two of them, once you’ve named two or more), and then you missing every email we send during the waiting period. The system is built assuming a false alarm will happen eventually.
“Can you read what I write?”
Letters are encrypted before they’re stored, with a key held by the service. Being precise: that means we technically could, and we don’t — nothing in the product reads letter contents, and they’re never sold or used as training data. Any service that also has to deliver your letter is in the same position; be sceptical of one that claims otherwise.
“Is this a substitute for a will?”
No, and it isn’t trying to be. This carries no legal weight and should never hold instructions about assets. It’s for the part a solicitor has no way to draft.
Most people put this off indefinitely.
You don’t have to finish it today. Write one paragraph, save it, and come back — a letter that exists in draft is infinitely further along than one you keep meaning to start.
Write the first paragraph