We built this for a family like yours.

The moment that started it

Someone we knew passed away. He had done the responsible thing. He had a trust, a will, and the paperwork that was supposed to take care of the people he loved. But when he was gone, his wife and his children could not find any of it. They knew it existed somewhere. They just had no idea where.

So instead of grieving, they searched. They went through closets and filing cabinets. They called the bank. They tried to remember the name of the attorney who drew up the documents years before. The weeks that should have belonged to the family belonged to the paperwork, and the paperwork was nowhere to be found.

It was not that he had been careless. It was that there was no good place to put these things. No single, trusted place that stays safe while you are alive and becomes reachable, by the right people, once you are gone. We thought there should be. So we set out to build it.

What Legatus does

Legatus Vault is a secure place to keep your trust, your will, and the documents your family will need. You upload them while you are here. You decide who should receive them. And when the time comes, after the people you trust have confirmed it, your family can find everything in one place and download their copies. No locked drawers. No guessing. No searching during the hardest weeks of their lives.

That is the whole idea, and we have tried to do it with real care. Your documents are encrypted. Nothing is released until your chosen verifiers confirm, together, that the time has come, and even then only after a waiting period during which a mistake can be undone. Every action on your account is recorded in a history that even we cannot rewrite.

What we believe

We believe that planning for the day you will not be here is not morbid. It is one of the most loving things a person can do for a family. The most generous gift you can leave is not only what you provide, but a clear and simple path to it.

We also believe in being honest about what we are. We are a vault and a careful way of handing things on. We are not a law firm, and we do not give legal advice. We hold the documents you have already made, and we make sure they reach the right hands. For the documents themselves, a good attorney is still your best friend, and we will always say so.

Where we are going

Today, Legatus does one thing and tries to do it gracefully: it keeps your estate documents safe and releases them to the people you choose when the time comes. We have left out everything that would get in the way of doing that well.

Over time, we want to make the hard parts easier. We are exploring ways to help families prepare these documents in the first place, with guidance suited to the state they live in, so that fewer people are ever caught without a plan. We will add what genuinely helps the families who trust us, and we will leave out the rest. If we ever lose the seriousness that started this, we will have failed the family whose search set us on our way.