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For families · Aotearoa · 2026

What you leave behind.

The hardest things to inherit aren't the things at all.

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From your father · 14 March 2031Letter · 03 of 28
From his Life Story · Released after verified loss

If you're reading this, then I've gone. The password to my email is in the Vault. It's the one we used at the bach. You always said it was too long.

The will is with Margaret at Bell Gully. Don't let your brother sell the boat. He'll try.

I told the rest, the parts that matter, into the Life Story. Listen to that one when you're ready. Not before.

Dad
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01 The problem

When someone dies, their family hits a wall.

Most estates aren't a filing cabinet. They're a locked phone, an unreachable email, subscriptions still billing every month, a will written before the cloud existed.

I

A locked phone

Codes arrive nobody can read.

II

Subscriptions still billing

Quietly draining the estate.

III

A password no-one knows

To the email holding everything.

IV

A will from another era

Silent on cloud, crypto, photos.

V

No-one knows what to do

No executor's instructions, anywhere.

02 What's inside

Six quiet things, looked after.

Aftr isn't an app you check daily. It's a small, steady shelf. Once it's full, it stays so. You'll come back twice a year, in twenty minutes.

01 · Memory Vault

Every credential, document, and key. All sealed.

Encrypted end-to-end. Released only on verified loss.

Encrypted at rest
02 · Life Guardians

The trusted few who unlock the estate.

A quorum of people you choose. Never us, never alone.

Quorum of 2 of 3
03 · Subscriptions

So nothing bills forever, in a quiet house.

Read-only bank scan finds every recurring charge.

Read-only · NZ bank accounts
04 · Executor Playbooks

Step-by-step, so the family knows what to do first.

Plain-English checklists, written by NZ solicitors.

Written by NZ solicitors
05 · Family Tree

One kinship record, shared across the whole family.

A single living tree every member contributes to.

Cross-generational · invite-only
06 · Life Story

A memoir in your own voice, for people not yet born.

Recorded over years, woven into a permanent narrative.

The emotional centrepiece →
03 The Family Tree

Not your tree. The family's.

Most family trees are a private file, maintained by one person, and lost when they're gone.

On Aftr, the tree is shared. Every member sees their place in it, can contribute a name, a date, a photograph, a story. Across generations, the record stays alive. Your great-grandchild will see your face there, and know who held the pen.

▶ Members marked with a play icon left a Life Story, listenable to family after they're gone.

See how it's shared
Whitcombe / Whaitiri · since 189814 LIVING · 9 PASSED
G·1 · 1898G·2 · 1932G·3 · 1971G·4 · 2008HWHēnare ▶1898–1972life story · 4 hrsMWMereana1903–1989TWTāne1932–2018connected may 2024JWJoan ▶b. 1948 · livingconnected apr 2024RWRobertb. 1952 · livingconnected jul 2024RHRāwirib. 1971connected feb 2025JCJames (you) ▶b. 1973joined apr 2024ĀWĀwhinab. 1976connected apr 2024HCHana ▶b. 1979connected jun 2024TATe Arohab. 1981connected sep 2024MHMīriab. 2008BCBenb. 2012RWRubyb. 2015ICIrisb. 2017SASamb. 2020contributed to by 9 of 14 living members · last entry 2 days ago
One tree · every member sees their place↻ Updated 2 days ago
04 The Life Story

A memoir, in your own voice, for people not yet born.

Most of what we know about our grandparents is the photograph and a sentence. Most of what they knew about themselves is gone.

Aftr changes that. Record voice memos when you feel like it: five minutes on a Sunday, an hour after a long week. We weave them into a permanent narrative, in your own words, released to your family after you're gone.

I. When the time comesMemoir
Chapter Three · Tairua, 1983

The summer Dad built the bach

The summer the bach went up, my father was forty-two and had never built anything more ambitious than a letterbox. Mum drove the four of us up on a Friday, the boot full of nails the wrong length and a borrowed circular saw he'd watched a man use, once, on a construction site in Pakuranga…

By the third weekend, the framing was up and the rain came in sideways. We slept in the tent with the saw under a tarp.

284 pagesVoice · printed · audio · ePub
II. While you're aliveStudio · 14 entries

You record. As often or rarely as you like.

68 minutes · last entry on Sunday
RECORDED · 12 APR · TAIRUA
The summer Dad built the bach
“Mum drove us up on a Friday, the boot full of nails the wrong length…”
RECORDED · 28 MAR · AUCKLAND
How I met your mother (the real version)
“It was at a wedding I almost didn't go to. The taxi was forty minutes late.”
RECORDED · 06 MAR · AUCKLAND
What I'd want you to know about money
“Three things I learned the hard way, and one your grandfather knew that I didn't.”
PROMPT · NEXT SUNDAY
Tell me about your first job.
Prompts each Sunday, optionalRecord
Released to your family in any format they want
Hardcover print-on-demandePub Kindle, Apple BooksAudio your own voicePDF archival
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We thought we were preparing for the worst. What it actually felt like, when we finished, was relief. A little like writing a long letter to people we love.
05 Membership

A premium service. Priced honestly.

No free tier. No advertising. No selling of data, ever. Aftr is funded by the families who use it. That's the only model we'll ever take.

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Aftr · Annual

For a household putting things in order for the first time. Renews each year, on the date you joined.

$89NZD / year
  • All six pillars · unlimited Vault items
  • Up to 5 Life Guardians
  • Subscription detection across NZ banks
  • Family Tree · whole-family access
  • Life Story memoir · all formats included
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Aftr · Lifetime

One payment. Held for your lifetime, and the lifetime of your plan, including a printed memoir for your family when the time comes.

$499NZD · once
  • Everything in Annual, never billed again
  • One printed hardcover memoir included
  • Priority Guardian onboarding by phone
  • Printed memoir delivery when the time comes
  • Priority support for you and your Guardians
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06 Considered questions

The things people ask, in order.

What stops Aftr from reading my Vault?
End-to-end encryption with keys derived on your device. We genuinely cannot read what's inside. The Vault is sealed by your passphrase and a Guardian quorum. Neither alone is enough, and Aftr the company holds neither.
What happens if Aftr, the company, goes away?
Annual members are notified with a year-long export window. We've planned for our own ending, the same way we ask you to.
How do you verify that someone has died?
A Life Guardian opens a release request, attaches a death certificate or coronial order, and a quorum of your other Guardians attests. The Vault then opens to them, and never to us. The exact procedure is in your Executor Playbook, and rehearsable while you're alive.
Is the Life Story really written by AI? Does it sound like me?
Your recordings are the source. The narrative is stitched from your words: phrasing, idiom, pause, rhythm. You read every chapter before it's sealed. Nothing is invented, and nothing leaves the chapter unless you've signed off on it. After your death, your family receives only chapters you approved.
What does my family pay, after I'm gone?
Nothing. The release of your estate is included in your membership (annual or lifetime), and your family gets the printed memoir, all the documents, and a year of read-only access at no further cost.
Is this a will? Do I still need a lawyer?
Aftr is not a will, and we don't pretend to be. We sit alongside one, holding the operational detail: passwords, accounts, instructions, the things a will cannot list. For a will itself, work with the lawyer you already have.
An invitation, not a push

You don't have to do all of it today.
The first ten minutes are enough.

Begin with whatever's lightest: the Vault, a single Life Story recording, the first names on the Family Tree. Aftr will be here on the day you want to come back.

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