What is Shelter?
Shelter is a cloud-based digital vault where you store the accounts, documents, and assets your family will need if something happens to you. Information is divided into five folders covering finances, physical assets, digital assets, legal documents, and personal wishes, with end-to-end encryption that the company says even its own staff cannot bypass. It is built for adults who want to leave their household a working playbook instead of a search through emails.
Why Shelter works
When someone dies or becomes incapacitated, the family loses days or weeks tracking down account numbers, insurance policies, and login details that only the deceased knew. Shelter centralizes that record in advance and lets you nominate trusted contacts who get access on a defined trigger, which removes the most painful manual step from estate handling. The mechanism is end-to-end encryption plus a structured folder set so the right information ends up in the right hands.
Shelter features
- Encrypted vault. Information is stored with end-to-end encryption so even Shelter staff cannot read the contents, which the page calls out directly.
- Five-folder structure. A guided structure covering finances, physical assets, digital assets, legal and wills, and personal and family details so users know what to put where.
- Trusted contact access. Designated people can be given access on the user's terms so the family receives the file when it actually matters.
- Update reminders. Periodic prompts nudge the user to refresh records so the vault does not drift out of date as life changes.
Who Shelter is for
- Parents of young children who want spouses to know where every account and policy lives without keeping a paper folder.
- Adult children of aging parents who want a structured way to record their parents' affairs before memory becomes an issue.
- Solo adults without obvious next-of-kin who need a trusted contact mechanism that does not depend on a will being read in time.
- Couples merging households who want a single, encrypted record of joint finances and digital accounts.
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