Frequently asked
Questions, gently answered.
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The basics
What exactly is Afterword?
Afterword is a companion to your legal will. It’s a secure, organized home for the credentials, documents, account information, and contact details your executor will need to actually close out your affairs when the time comes.
Is this a will or a legal service?
No. Afterword is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. We do not help you write a will. You should have one drawn up separately — Afterword holds the information that sits alongside it.
Who is Afterword for?
Individual adults in the United States who want to make things easier for the people they’ll leave behind. We don’t yet support joint accounts, law firms, or international residents.
How much does it cost?
During early access, it’s free. When we move out of early access, we’ll offer a simple, transparent subscription — not an ad-supported model, not data resale.
Security and privacy
Where is my data stored?
In Supabase (US region), behind row-level security policies that enforce access at the database level. Credentials are additionally encrypted in our application layer using AES-256-GCM before being written.
Can Afterword employees read my passwords?
They could technically decrypt them with access to both the database and the application-layer encryption key. We chose this tradeoff deliberately so that your executor can be shown decrypted credentials after an approved unlock. We do not access user data in the course of normal operations, and all administrative access is logged.
Does the AI companion see my data?
No. The companion only sees completion state — counts, booleans, timestamps, and your plan status. It never receives passwords, account numbers, document contents, or the names of people or institutions.
Do you sell or share data with advertisers?
Never. There are no ad pixels, no third-party trackers, and no data sales. That would be a disqualifying betrayal of the product.
The unlock / handoff
How does my executor actually get access?
They sign in with the email you’ve registered and start an unlock request. You are notified immediately. Depending on whether you’ve named a witness, access either opens after a waiting window you’ve chosen, or after the witness confirms. You can deny at any point until it opens.
What happens if I deny an unlock request?
Denying immediately revokes the executor’s role and cancels any pending unlock. A premature request is a serious trust issue, so we treat it as one. You’ll need to name a new executor afterward.
What if I’m incapacitated, not dead?
That’s exactly the case the waiting window exists for. If you’re hospitalized and unable to deny, access will open after the window. If you’d rather require an active human confirmation, name a witness.
Can the executor edit my data?
No. Their view is read-only except for a pre-made task checklist (things like “cancel streaming subscriptions,” “contact bank”) that they can check off as they work.
What Afterword isn’t
Is this a password manager?
No. The credentials section is intentionally small — the “skeleton key” set of your computer, phone, and email logins. We don’t want you to duplicate your password manager here.
Does it handle crypto, real estate, or international assets?
Not yet. v0 is deliberately narrow: US-based financial accounts, subscriptions, loans, and core documents. We’d rather do a small number of things well.
Do you read or analyze my documents?
No. Documents are stored as-is. We do not OCR, parse, or extract data from them.
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