Our mission: probate in under a month
We're building the records and relationships needed so that, instead of a year of administrative limbo, executors can locate assets quickly and settle estates in weeks, not years.
Empowered Executors
Executors spending less time chasing forms and more time doing what really matters.
Swift Funding
Families receiving funds sooner, with fewer avoidable costs eroding the estate value.
Prevent Asset Loss
Far fewer lost accounts, policies, or pensions quietly disappearing because no one knew they were there.
"To help drive a world in which the administrative work of probate and will execution can be completed in under a month for most families."
The problem with probate today
Settling an estate isn't just paperwork — it often drags on for many months or even years, keeping families in limbo while they're grieving.
Globally, even straightforward estates typically take around six to twelve months to complete probate, and more complex estates can stretch to eighteen months or beyond. Across major international markets, it's common for estates to spend roughly a year in administration, with many cases taking significantly longer.
During that time, key assets are effectively frozen — executors often cannot sell property or fully access accounts until a grant of probate is issued, leaving homes sitting on the market or standing empty while costs continue to mount. Delays also interact badly with tax rules: inheritance tax, income tax and capital gains tax may all be accruing interest and penalties while executors wait for paperwork and clearances to be processed.
"And behind all of this is a simple, frustrating truth: in too many estates, no one has a complete, up-to-date picture of the person's financial life. Assets get missed, paperwork gets lost, and the process slows down just when clarity matters most."
Real-World Impact
Values move while you wait
Investment portfolios and properties can rise or fall in value during a long probate, so the estate you finally distribute may look very different from the one your loved one intended.
Costs eat into inheritances
Mortgages, utilities, insurance, maintenance, professional fees and tax interest can all pile up over months of delay, reducing what ultimately reaches the family.
Time and stress for executors
Executors may spend a year or more chasing documents, locating accounts, and correcting forms — all under emotional and sometimes legal pressure.
An actionable, living record of your financial life
Legacy Assured exists to tackle that missing piece: we help you create a clear, living record of your financial life that your executors can actually use when the time comes.
Complete mapping
Record all your key financial assets in one secure place — bank accounts, savings, investments, pensions, insurance policies, properties and more.
Swift discoverability
Make it easier for your executors to find everything quickly, so they are not spending months tracking down forgotten accounts.
Zero-loss safety
Reduce the risk that something gets lost forever, simply because nobody knew it existed or where to look.
Removing financial barriers to legacy organisation
Our service is free for individual users, so anyone can take this step for their family, regardless of wealth or complexity. It is designed to sit quietly in the background during your life and become incredibly valuable in the weeks and months after.
The route to real change
This kind of systemic change can't be achieved by one company alone — but we can help lead the way if we stand together.
Working with financial institutions
By partnering with banks, insurers, asset managers and other providers, we can help design seamless, standardised ways to confirm and release assets when someone dies, based on clear, pre-recorded information rather than slow manual discovery.
Collaborating with governments and regulators
With enough real-world data and user support, we can advocate for digitised, interoperable processes that replace paper forms, reduce backlogs and bring probate times down dramatically.
Building trusted, digital replacements
Over time, we see a route to a world where verified digital records, held with the right safeguards, allow key parts of estate administration to be processed automatically and securely — without months of avoidable delay.
"The opportunity is huge: billions of people around the world will go through some form of estate administration in their lifetime, and for each of them, a faster, clearer, kinder process would make an immense difference."
How you can support the mission
You can help simply by taking care of your own legacy. When you sign up and create your free Legacy Assured record, you are doing two things at once:
Protecting your own family
By making it much easier for your executors to see the full picture and move faster when it matters.
Strengthening the case for change
By adding your voice and your data — handled in line with strict privacy and security standards — to a growing movement that shows governments and institutions there is a better way.
Join Legacy Assured — free, in minutes
Create your secure record today and take a simple, practical step that could spare your family months of unnecessary administrative pain.
Start your free recordA long journey, but a clear path
We know this will not change overnight. Probate systems are complex, and reform takes time. But we can already see a practical route to dramatically reducing the administrative burden for future generations — starting with clearer records today, and building towards digitised, connected processes tomorrow.
By joining Legacy Assured now, you are not just filling in a form. You are helping to build the foundation for a world in which settling an estate is measured in weeks, not years — and in which your legacy, and the legacies of billions of others, can be honoured with far less administrative pain.