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An "If I'm Gone" journal is one sealed place that answers what your family needs on the worst day: who to call, where the will and insurance are, legal and medical wishes, funeral preferences, who depends on you, and what you want them to know. In KinSwitch you can build it as a notebook, attach the real documents, and put it on a deadman switch (or share it now) so it arrives when it is needed.

A password manager break-glass kit is the ordered instructions that get one trusted person into your vault and the accounts behind it when you cannot unlock them. Include the master path, 2FA backup, and device unlock steps. Store the kit in KinSwitch so it delivers if you miss check-ins. Start free at kinswitch.app/register.

A business handoff journal is a single living document that captures how your company actually runs (access, money, people, operations, legal, and a first-48-hours checklist) so a co-founder, spouse, or assistant can keep the lights on if you are suddenly gone. Most founders keep that knowledge only in their heads. In KinSwitch you can seal it in a notebook, attach the real documents, and deliver it on a deadman switch or share it now.

KinSwitch now connects to Claude. Ask it to draft notes and notebooks for you, everything stays encrypted at rest, and Claude only has access during sessions you start and can revoke.

Google's BeyondCorp paper introduced zero trust to enterprise security in 2014. The same framework, identity over location, authentication as perimeter, least privilege, assume breach, ports directly to personal life and produces a better result than the ad-hoc alternative.

Bruce Schneier, Edward Snowden, and Cory Doctorow have spent careers writing about personal threat modeling against state surveillance and platform power. Their principles apply more cleanly to digital estate planning than most estate-planning advice does. A walk-through.

Engineering teams run tabletop exercises to rehearse disaster scenarios before they happen. The same practice applies cleanly to families and estate planning. Three scenarios, the gaps they'll surface, and how to facilitate the exercise so it actually surfaces them.

Microsoft's STRIDE framework was built for application security. It works just as well on personal OPSEC and estate planning, spoofing your identity, tampering with beneficiary designations, denial of service on your own life. A walk-through.

Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, the messages you want to reach your family at moments you won't see. A practical guide to formats, triggers, and storage for sending messages decades into the future, plus the advice you actually need to start.

The check-in window on a deadman switch is a probability trade-off between false positives (firing while you're alive) and false negatives (not firing when you should). The honest math, and why the right cadence depends on more than just the slider in the settings.