About DearFile

My dad organized everything into a black bag.

He had a neck injury that left him paralyzed when I was one year old. He ran our entire family's life from a wheelchair and over the phone. Meticulous, clear-headed, always two steps ahead. Documents, policies, contacts. All of it in that bag.

When he died, I was thousands of miles away. I was doing what he always had, managing things over the phone. My mom was in shock. The bag was right there in the house. We just could not find it. She could not think clearly enough. I had no idea where to look.

The problem was not disorganization. It was that the map only lived in his head.

DearFile is that map, written down and shared. Not a vault. Not a password manager. The trail your family follows when you are not there to walk it with them.

A map, not a vault

DearFile does not store passwords or account numbers. It stores the map: the institution, the type, the contact, where to look. Enough for your family to find their way. Not enough to be a liability if anything ever went wrong.

It is not a legal product. Not a financial product. It is a personal one, built for the ordinary person who loves people who depend on them. Five sections. One quiet evening. A file that stays useful on a Tuesday and ready on the worst day.

What we believe

We believe this kind of preparation is an act of love, not a confrontation with mortality. The families that have to piece things together in a crisis don't need more paperwork. They need answers. DearFile gives them those answers.

We believe your private information should stay private. Your file is accessible only to you and the trusted contacts you choose.

We believe it should be simple. Fill in what you know. Skip what you don't. Come back when life changes. Even a half-filled file is worth ten times a blank one.