What happens to your digital life when you die?
Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of Eternal Vault - the secure platform I built after watching my friend’s family spend 6 months trying to access his father’s digital accounts during COVID. No family should face that digital chaos while grieving.
The Digital Legacy Crisis
The numbers are staggering:
- 73% of families can’t access $25,000+ in digital assets when loved ones pass
- Average family has 150+ digital accounts across banking, social media, cloud storage, and business platforms
- Digital assets worth $35,000+ per family including cryptocurrency, online businesses, and digital content
- 70% of families have no plan for accessing digital assets during emergencies
- Average recovery cost: $23,000 when families try to access digital assets without proper planning
The problem isn’t just about money—it’s about memories, relationships, and family continuity.
When someone dies or becomes incapacitated, families face an impossible choice: fight technology companies for months to access photos and messages, or watch years of precious memories disappear forever.
Eternal Vault exists because every family deserves better than that.
The Problem We’re Solving
In our increasingly digital world, we accumulate invaluable information throughout our lives: important documents, cherished memories, bank account details, passwords, and final messages for our loved ones. Yet, when we pass away, we don’t have even a second extra to share these precious assets with those who matter most.
The harsh reality: Your loved ones could be left locked out of everything that matters, struggling to access accounts, searching for important documents, or never receiving the final words you meant for them.
The scale of this crisis is staggering:
- Over $200 billion in digital assets become inaccessible worldwide every year
- $140+ billion in Bitcoin alone is permanently lost due to forgotten passwords
- 1 in 4 families never recover their loved one’s photos, files, or accounts
- 6+ months is the average time families spend in digital detective work while grieving
This is the gap that Eternal Vault bridges: ensuring that your most important digital assets and memories reach your loved ones when you no longer can share them yourself.
What is Eternal Vault?
Eternal Vault is a comprehensive digital legacy platform built on five core pillars of protection:
Our mission: To ensure that your most important digital assets and memories reach your loved ones when you no longer can share them yourself.
Our vision: A world where no family has to become digital detectives while grieving, where every family can access the digital legacy their loved ones intended to leave behind.
Our values: Security, privacy, simplicity, and family protection above all else.
🔐 Bank-Grade Security & Encryption
Every piece of data in Eternal Vault is protected with AES-256-GCM encryption, the same standard used by banks and government agencies. Our zero-knowledge architecture means we never see your actual data, and neither does anyone else. Your encryption key is derived using Scrypt, making brute-force attacks practically impossible.
📄 Secure Document Management
Store legal documents, family photos, password files, bank account details, and personal messages. Support for 50+ file formats with automatic encryption before upload. Access your documents from any device, anywhere in the world.
💓 Intelligent Heartbeat Monitoring
Our gentle, automatic check-in system blends into your daily life - no morbid “are you alive?” buttons. It monitors through apps you already use, with customizable thresholds and multiple reminder stages. You stay in complete control of when and how your vault is shared.
👥 Trusted Contact Management
Assign different trust levels to your contacts:
- Ultimate Trust: Can access your vault independently
- High Trust: Need approval from one other trusted person
- Shared Trust: Require group consensus before access is granted
🎯 Gamified Legacy Building
Building your digital estate shouldn’t feel overwhelming. Our guided checklists, achievements, and progress tracking turn estate planning into manageable steps with clear wins along the way.
📊 Complete Transparency & Analytics
Comprehensive activity logs, audit trails, and insights to track all interactions with your vault. Real-time monitoring ensures you know exactly what’s happening with your digital legacy.
How It Works
1. Secure Your Legacy
Upload your important documents, write personal messages, and organize everything in your encrypted vault. Everything is encrypted on your device before it ever leaves your computer.
2. Choose Your Trusted Contacts
Invite family members, friends, or legal representatives with different trust levels. Each contact is verified and can receive notifications through their preferred channels.
3. Set Your Heartbeat
Configure how often you want to check in with the system. Miss multiple check-ins, and your trusted contacts are automatically notified and guided through accessing your vault.
4. Peace of Mind
Live your life knowing that if something happens to you, your loved ones will have access to what they need, when they need it most.
Proven Results from Real Families
103 families tested Eternal Vault over 6 months. Here’s what we learned:
- 89% would recommend it to family after understanding how it works
- Average session: 23 minutes - people get absorbed once they start organizing their digital lives
- Most common feedback: “I never thought about how much I needed this until I tried it”
Real-World Impact
Eternal Vault serves families facing real challenges:
- The parent who wants their children to have organized access to family history and important documents
- The entrepreneur who needs to protect business continuity and client relationships
- The crypto investor whose digital wealth could disappear without proper succession planning
- The elderly person who wants to make their passing easier on loved ones
- The small business owner who realizes their family has no way to contact clients if something happens
Getting Started
Eternal Vault is now available with a completely free plan that includes:
- 1 document and 1 trusted contact
- Full vault functionality with storage limits
- All core security features
- Basic heartbeat monitoring
- No credit card required
Launch week special: 50% off paid plans with code LAUNCH50 (first 100 users)
More details about the pricing plans can be found here.
All plans include our 30-day money-back guarantee.
The Road Ahead
This is just the beginning. We’re working on exciting features like:
- Health integrations (Fitbit, Strava, Oura Ring, Polar, Withings)
- Smart watch connectivity for automatic check-ins
- Discord and Telegram bot and many more integrations for notifications
- Connect your accounts to automatically pull data from your existing storage devices like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.
Why I Built This
Eternal Vault was created by me, Akash Rajpurohit, after watching my close friend’s family spend 6 months trying to access his father’s digital accounts during COVID’s first wave. They discovered 23 different online accounts, Rs. ~1,20,000 in a forgotten savings account, and a few other assets all through detective work while grieving.
As a software engineer and privacy advocate, I realized this wasn’t just their problem, it affects millions of families every year (and can very well be with me). After 3-4 months of grinding every weekend, Eternal Vault became the solution to ensure no family faces that digital chaos during loss.
Join Us
Death shouldn’t mean digital loss. Your memories, messages, and important documents deserve to live on and reach the people who matter most.
Get started with Eternal Vault today. It’s free to begin, and your loved ones will thank you for the peace of mind.
Have questions or want to learn more? Contact us or check out our features page for detailed information about how Eternal Vault works.
