Thursday. 10:14pm. One invoice still open.
You think about who would even tell each client that you are not coming back.
If you died tomorrow, the name you spent ten years building gets remembered as the one who went silent.
Three clients mid-project, none of them aware of the others. Repos, hosting panels, the invoicing tool, the half-shipped Figma. No agency behind you to apologise or finish. Your reputation is what is actually at risk, not just the work.
What only you know
Most households quietly run on one person.
Administrative credentials for the active repository hosting platforms
Master account logins for creative suite software profiles
The spreadsheet detailing unbilled project hours and completed client tasks
The direct contact directory for all current retained business clients
Administrative codes for external client web hosting packages
The secure password details for the online cloud invoicing software
None of this is in a drawer. None of it is in your partner's phone. It is all in your head.
If you went silent tomorrow
Here is what unravels.
Day 1
A client emails about a deploy. Your inbox is the only place the brief lives. They wait a day, then two.
Day 3
Their site throws a 500. The hosting login sits in a vault no one can open. They start asking colleagues for backup freelancers.
Week 2
Two invoices never get sent. Three weeks of work quietly stop being billable. Three other clients learn what happened from a fourth, badly.
Month 6
Your portfolio site lapses. The Google result for your name is a confused thread. Future clients never get the chance to hire who you actually were.
By next month, your partner is firefighting. Not grieving. Firefighting.
How it works
One tap a month. Until the day you stop tapping.
Grace period
30 days to reply
We try email, text, and a phone reminder. You log in once, everything resets.
Alex, friend since uni
Witness 1, confirmed
Priya, family
Witness 2, confirmed
Recipient
A trusted freelancer peer
That is it. Six pounds a month.
One tap. Two witnesses. Delivery only when both confirm.
What actually happens
Your partner gets exactly what they need.
The active client list with the right contact and brief
Repo, hosting and Figma credentials
The invoicing tool, unbilled hours and outstanding payments
The short note you wrote for each client when this happens
And it is six pounds a month.
Two witnesses have confirmed. Here is what a trusted freelancer peer asked us to share with you.
Open securely
ifyoudie.org/view/...
Take your time. Samaritans 116 123 if you need someone now.
What you actually do
Ten minutes today. One tap a month. That is the whole thing.
- Step 1
Write what a trusted peer would need
Client list, repo access, hosting logins, the invoicing tool, who owes you what. Short notes work fine.
- Step 2
Name two friends as witnesses
A fellow freelancer, a partner, someone who knows your work. If we ever stop hearing from you, we ask them separately to confirm.
- Step 3
One tap a month, that is the whole job
We send one short email a month. You tap once. If you stop tapping, we wait, try again, and only then start the verified delivery.
The price
£6 a month.
Less than a gym you don't go to. Cheaper than the streaming bundle you forgot you have.
- Netflix Basic£8 / mo
- A gym membership£35 / mo
- Spotify Premium£11 / mo
- Three coffees£10 / mo
- If You Die£6 / mo
Cancel any time. If you ever do, your messages are wiped within 30 days.
Doing this for the whole household? Family plan, £18/mo for five.
What we never do
Trust is the product. These four lines are why.
We never read your words
No human reads what you write. No AI is trained on it. Encrypted at rest, the honest version.
Two humans must confirm
We do not deliver on a missed email. Two witnesses you named must, separately, attest. No exceptions.
We never sell your data
Not anonymised, not aggregated, not under any future ownership change. It is in the terms in black and white.
We never assume your beliefs
Religion, culture, what you call the people you named. You write the words. We deliver them, unedited.