Digital estate & access continuity
Passwords, crypto wallets, domains, and SaaS admin rights die with their owner — or walk out with a churned IT lead. Aven is succession infrastructure: dead-man switches, multi-party key escrow, and legally-integrated transfer workflows that execute exactly as planned.
Built for wealth managers, law firms & IT departments
Wills name who gets the assets. Nobody names who gets the password to reach them.
Billions in crypto is permanently stranded because seed phrases died with their owners. A safe-deposit box doesn't help if nobody knows it exists.
The IT lead quits and takes sole admin of the domain registrar, the cloud org, and the payment processor with them. Recovery takes months — if it works.
The current state of the art is a password list in a drawer — unencrypted, outdated, and legally ambiguous the moment it's needed.
Cryptography enforces the plan. The law recognizes it. No single point of trust, including us.
Configurable check-ins by app, email, or your advisor. Missed windows escalate gently — then trigger the release workflow you defined, not a default.
Secrets split with threshold cryptography across attorney, successor, and escrow. Release needs a quorum — no rogue party, no single subpoena.
Vault plans map to wills, trusts, and corporate resolutions, with RUFADAA-aligned consents — so executors get access without a year in probate court.
On trigger, access transfers in order: domains re-delegated, admin rights granted, accounts frozen or handed over — each step logged and reversible during the grace window.
Connect password managers, registrars, cloud orgs, and wallets — or add items manually. Everything is encrypted client-side before it reaches us.
Choose key holders and thresholds per asset class: the family lawyer for the estate, the board for the company, a different rule for the wallets.
One-click fire drills verify every key holder can still act and every runbook still matches reality. Succession plans rot; rehearsed ones don't.
typical quorum — no single party can act alone
of rehearsed transfers complete within 72 hours of trigger
recoverable by Aven alone — client-side encryption, threshold keys
“We settled an estate where the deceased ran his business entirely through accounts nobody could reach — eight months of court orders and customer churn. Now every business owner we advise gets an Aven vault as part of the estate plan. The annual fire drill alone has caught three plans that had silently gone stale.”
For individuals, firms, and the advisors who serve them — we'll map what's reachable today, what's stranded tomorrow, and what to seal first.
Received — a succession specialist will reach out within two business days.