Wills cover assets. They don't cover access.
The accounts, wallets, archives, and tokens your executor will need —
none of that lives in the trust your attorney drafted.
Your estate attorney is excellent at the legal layer. There is no technical layer — unless someone builds it. Here's what gets lost when nobody does.
Irrecoverable seed phrases. Self-custody means exactly that — if you die holding a hardware wallet with no documented recovery path, the coins are gone. Forever. No court order, no password reset, no customer service line.
Apple and Google offer "legacy contact" programs, but they require setup before death. Without it, decades of family photos, videos, and documents are locked behind a biometric your family can't replicate. Most estates never configure this.
Every SaaS your company depends on — payroll, banking, critical infrastructure — has 2FA tied to a phone that's now dark. Cofounders and partners get locked out of live systems mid-operation. Boards scramble. Lawyers bill.
Domain registrations expire silently. SaaS renewals lapse. Brand assets built over decades go to auction or squatters. A critical business email domain, gone because no one knew to renew it. This happens to estates of every size.
Three concrete deliverables. Structured. Updated. Ready to use the moment they're needed.
Every account, current value where applicable, access path. Formatted for attorneys — structured so it can drop directly into the estate file. Delivered on a quarterly cadence or immediately when you add a new account, wallet, or business entity. Your executor gets a document, not a mystery.
We will get on the phone with them when the time comes. Your executor is briefed now — they know what exists, where it is, and what to do. When it matters, they're not figuring this out under grief. They have a named Sentinel contact and a documented procedure. We walk them through it.
We don't replace your estate attorney. We feed them. Sentinel supplies the technical annex — your attorney handles the legal instrument. We work in parallel, not in competition.
Your attorney drafts the trust, names the executor, and handles the legal succession. Sentinel delivers the Digital Asset Memorandum — a structured document listing every digital account, access path, and crypto holding, formatted for the estate file. The attorney attaches it. The executor uses it. No one has to guess what existed or how to reach it.
Attorneys: if you want drop-in language to add a Digital Asset Memorandum clause to an existing trust, see our channel partner page →
Drop-in language for your existing trust. One page. Attorney-reviewed. Covers the digital asset schedule, executor access procedures, and the crypto custody clause. Download it, send it to your attorney, and ask them to attach it to your estate file.
We'll email the template. You'll also enter Sentinel's assessment funnel — opt out anytime.
Your spouse doesn't need to understand multisig. Your kids don't need to know what a seed phrase is. They need one document that tells them what to do in the first 48 hours — before lawyers bill, before accounts freeze, before anything irreversible happens.
This document uses no jargon. It's updated every time your digital estate changes. Printed and kept with your personal papers. A second copy lives in your 1Password emergency kit or with your estate attorney — wherever your family will reach first.
Generic estate planning ignores crypto. We don't. Here's what Sentinel sets up for holdings that matter.
Multi-signature coordination so no single key — yours, a co-signer's, or a device's — controls the wallet alone. Your attorney, spouse, and a secure backup key form a 2-of-3 arrangement. Nobody gets locked out. Nobody gets robbed into coercion.
For seed phrase inheritance without a single point of failure. The seed is split into shares: your estate attorney holds one, your executor holds one, a physical vault holds one. Any two of three reconstruct the key. No single party can act alone.
Trezor / Ledger setup, documented and tested. Seed phrase on metal backup (Cryptosteel or equivalent). Physical location documented in the sealed envelope. Recovery procedure tested with a dummy wallet before the real configuration is finalized. Verified — not assumed.
A digital estate plan that's 18 months out of date is a liability, not an asset. Sentinel's Estate Protection tier keeps yours current on a defined schedule — and immediately when anything changes.
Digital estate management — the dossier, the attorney deliverable, the family one-pager, the crypto inheritance protocol — is exclusive to Estate Protection. Not an add-on. Not available piecemeal. Request an assessment and we'll show you exactly what your digital estate looks like right now.
Estate Protection · $1,599/mo · Exclusive. Not available on Digital Shield or Family Guard. Or get the free template →