How Inheritance Vaults Work

Upon helps your loved ones access your devices, accounts, and documents by acting as a vault and password manager that opens after you pass away.

Step 1

Store passwords in the vault

End-to-end encrypted to ensure only you have access now, but your family can gain access later.

Step 2

Your death is reported

Heirs report your death to Upon, safeguards are checked, and your vault is released.

Step 3

Loved ones gain access

Beneficiaries decrypt the vault to securely access your passwords.

Setting up your vault

1. Add your documents

Our vaults are end to end encrypted, ensuring your data is only accessible by you until your next of kin have released the vault. Add instructions, documents, device passcodes, account passwords, encryption keys, cryptocurrency details, and more.

What data to store

Passwords

Instructions

Device passcodes

Documents

Crypto key shares

Encryption keys

End-to-end encrypted vault

2. Choose your beneficiaries

Your beneficiaries will be invited to create a free account and will gain access to your vault after your death. A minimum number of your beneficiaries are required to release and decrypt your vault.

How beneficiaries work

Brother

Sister

Daughter

Cousin

Friend

3. Set your release conditions

You have full control over what is required to release your vault to beneficiaries. As everyone's life circumstances and circle of trust is different, we give you full control to balance the amount of trust you give to each beneficiary.

Family accessing your vault

1. Trigger release conditions

Your beneficiaries report your death to Upon, and can upload your death certificate and an extra release key that you have written in your will.

Initiated by beneficiaries

3 out of 5 beneficiaries have requested release.

Embedded will key uploaded.

Death certificate verified.

2. Grace period

To protect you from malicious access, you will be notified to all changes in release conditions. When all have been met, an email will be sent to give you a number of days to prevent releasing the vault to beneficiaries.

How to set a grace period

3. Beneficiaries gain access

Upon gives beneficiaries access to the encrypted vault data, which they can now decrypt using their beneficiary key shares. At no point is Upon able to read the vault contents, even after release of the vault.

Beneficiary responsibilities