For adult children caring for aging parents
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Emergency access that closes itself.
When a parent lands in the hospital, you need their accounts NOW — and you need that access to end when the crisis does. Relay opens exactly what you were granted, and when they recover and check in, it seals itself again. No rival does the second half.
The call comes. Then the lockouts start.
The bank. The insurance portal. The pharmacy account. The email that resets all of them. Most families solve this ahead of time the only way they know how — by handing over every password to everyone, forever. That works right up until it doesn't, and it can never be undone.
Relay is the other way: a vault your parent controls while they can, that opens only what each person needs, only when a real trigger fires — and that closes itself when they recover.
Why not the alternatives you've already considered?
Everything, to everyone, forever. No scope, no expiry, no record of who looked.
Each person gets only their granted items, only after a real trigger, with a tamper-evident record.
A binder is permanent: once shared, it cannot be unshared — and it goes stale.
Reversible by default. A recovery check-in closes emergency access automatically; only a verified estate handoff is permanent.
One platform each, death-only, nothing for the six-week hospitalization in between.
One vault across everything they use, built for the emergencies you actually face — which are usually survivable.
Built like it matters
- Encrypted in your browser before it ever leaves — Relay servers only ever hold ciphertext.
- Releases require the trigger you chose: a missed check-in, a manual emergency, or verified estate event — with trusted verifiers and a grace window.
- Every open, grant, and release lands in a hash-chained audit log you can verify yourself.
One vault, unlimited recipients and triggers, every release reversible until the one that shouldn't be.
Start your family's vault — $119/yr