Digital Heirloom Problem

We are the most photographed generation in history — and the one that will leave the least behind. Every photo lives on a phone, every password in a manager, every important document in a folder nobody else can find. We have never had more to pass on, and never been worse at passing it on.

The vault without a key

When someone dies, their family doesn't struggle to find the memories. They struggle to find the accounts: the bank login, the cloud drive, the domain registration, the photo archive. A decade of someone's life, locked behind a password that died with them.

That is the digital heirloom problem. We built systems to store everything, and no system to hand it over.

What inheritance actually needs

Inheritance isn't a file transfer. It's a series of decisions made in advance: who gets the passwords, who gets the photos, who gets nothing, and under what conditions access is released. It needs a key that can be passed, and a switch that fires on its own if you can't.

• Secrets should be sealed, not scattered across inboxes.
• Heirs should be named, not guessed after the fact.
• Release should be conditional, not an all-or-nothing dump.

GILT treats the handover as the product, not an afterthought. The vault is the easy part. The inheritance is what we built for.