Why I Built Zero Knowledge Vault

A few years ago, I watched an acquaintance's family spend weeks reconstructing their loved one's digital life after he passed. Passwords. Bank accounts. Crypto wallets. Documents scattered across cloud drives no one had access to.

They were grieving and playing detective at the same time.

I couldn't stop thinking about it. Our lives live online, yet the tools for handing that life over when something happens barely exist. Estate planning still imagines a filing cabinet.

So I built one.

Today I'm launching Zero Knowledge Vault — a zero-knowledge encrypted vault with a dead man's switch. Your accounts, documents, crypto keys, and personal messages live encrypted on your device. If something happens to you, a 5-level escalation delivers the right things to the right people, automatically.

The zero-knowledge part matters: we literally cannot read what you store. Your 12-word seed phrase never leaves your hands. No employee, no hacker, no subpoena can unlock your vault. Only you and the people you choose.

I'll be honest — it's an unusual pivot. Twenty years at The Coca-Cola Company, a Stanford MBA, and more recently a CS certificate because I wanted to build again. None of that made me an obvious founder for a technology product. But the problem kept nagging at me until I built a solution.

Free to start. Setup takes 10 minutes. → zerokvault.com

Digital lives deserve the same planning as physical ones.