DigitalerNachlass.App
Age band 35–55 years
Mid‑life decision maker
Married, children, a home or several wealth components—often the organisational centre of gravity and keenly aware of being the hinge for the family system.
“Without me, my family is lost.”
An estate never consists of money alone.
And never of data alone.
An estate ties together assets, liabilities, contracts, accesses, documents, and personal information—always in the context of a person's life.
Relatives, authorised representatives, and beneficiaries need more than isolated documents or password lists to be able to act when it matters.
DigitalerNachlass.App was developed to map this complexity in a structured way for the first time.
Orientation + structure + feasibility—in one system:
Structured Estate Control.
DigitalerNachlass.App is the first system for Structured Estate Control. The application does not replace legal, tax, or financial advice—it provides the foundation for informed decisions.
There is nothing wrong with choosing not to actively shape your estate.
The state, churches, banks, and lawyers in 🇩🇪 and other non-profit organisations welcome roughly €19 billion in revenue each year.
But if you take that path, it should be for the right reasons—and based on informed decisions.
On NachlassGestalten.de there is a guided tour that conveys the necessary basic knowledge in less than 10 minutes.
Who this is particularly relevant for:
Shaping your estate early always pays off—especially when you want wealth preserved across generations and you don't want to leave loved ones facing an overwhelming burden in a crisis.
For certain groups of people, however, the need is substantially greater:
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Roughly age 90 and older
Age band 30–65 years
Patchwork family
Complex family structures, high emotional dynamics, unclear inheritance claims and heightened conflict potential in probate.
“We need clear rules so there won't be fights later.”
Age band 60–87 years
Convinces
their own
family
to put provisions in place
Age band 25–70 years
Experienced heir
Has lived through an inheritance case in their circle—experiencing chaos, conflict or organisational overload—and understands the implications.
“I'll do it better.”
Age band 45–65 years
Childless couples
Without direct descendants
“Inheritance rules don't apply to me.”
Age band 65–85 years
Lifetime wealth distributors
Affluent, structured, informed
“The state gets nothing.”
Extension · graphic 25–75
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their own
family
to put provisions in place
Age band 25–40 years
Digital‑native households
Many complex digital assets, no estate structure
“Risk management is part of it.”
How we deliver Structured Estate Control:
In an age when nearly every digital product is being augmented with artificial intelligence or developed directly as AI-native, we deliberately take a different path. Because when it comes to estate matters, reliability matters more than probability.
Therefore our Structured Estate Control is not based on generative artificial intelligence, but on standardized, traceable, and sustainably maintainable systems.
We rely on technologies that have proven themselves millions of times worldwide:
- Family trees
- Data structuring
- Workflow logic
- Encryption
The decisive difference does not arise from individual technologies alone, but from their controlled linkage.
We bring together information from all areas of the system in a targeted way and transfer the respective context in a traceable manner between the individual components. This creates a coherent understanding of the estate from isolated functions.
Structured, context-oriented estate control arises from standardized systems.
What context means when shaping an estate, in concrete terms:
Context boost
Typical approach in the system
New context produced
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Typical approach in the system
New context produced
Context boost
New people are automatically positioned correctly within the family tree. The system then captures, in a targeted way, supplementary information relevant to each person.
New context produced
From family context, statutory rules of succession—including potential minimum quotas—can be derived as orientation.
Context boost
For each estate segment, matching access elements are determined automatically.
New context produced
Access elements are organised into Vaults while information is captured.
This yields clearly separated data contexts that can be assigned to specific individuals in a targeted way.
Context boost
Workflows bring family context and data context together: participants on one side, bundled estate information on the other.
New context produced
From the structured allocation of estate information to individuals, one can derive a foundational expression of the testator's intent and—with that—a resulting inheritance context.
Context boost
The rough inheritance context makes it possible to give estate distribution an initial structure.
In addition, family context together with succession law can show which statutory quotas would apply to whom.
New context produced
Estate distribution creates a concrete distribution context for planned share assignments to individuals.
Context boost
In combination with family context and distribution context, applicable succession law supports traceable estimates of potential inheritance-related costs—for instance via taxes.
New context produced
What you end up with is structured estate context that can serve as a sound basis for consultations with legal or tax advisers.
Why architecture creates more security than any marketing promise ever could:
The central challenge for digital estate-planning offerings is that highly sensitive information is often stored and processed in one place you do not operate yourself.
This is far from everyday user data—it covers net-worth signals, family relationships, contractual relationships, access credentials, and personal documents, all with an unusually high sensitivity profile. The common reassurance that “nobody could really do anything harmful with this anyway” does not hold up in this context. Estate data carries exceptional analytical value for third parties, while conventional cloud software routinely depends on you placing long-term trust in whoever runs the servers.
That is why DigitalerNachlass.App deliberately takes a different approach: security does not come from marketing promises—it comes from the underlying architecture itself.
DigitalerNachlass.App is a system in which technical control over sensitive information stays with the respective owners—at all times:
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Baseline data stays untouched
The original data remains in each source system and is not altered or replaced. Existing access-and-permission structures in those systems stay fully intact.
Outcome
Anyone with access to a source can read the data held there in plaintext.
2
DigitalerNachlass.App · local encryption
All information stored inside DigitalerNachlass.App is written to disk encrypted, locally on the device in question. Each device derives its own cryptographic key material.
Outcome
Only people with access to that specific hardware and the unlocked DigitalerNachlass.App desktop application can reach the datasets held inside DigitalerNachlass.App.
3
Key exchange
Recipient devices derive cryptographic keys locally on their phones. Only the corresponding public portion leaves the handset; later it may be used solely to encrypt information for that recipient’s channel.
The matching private‑key portion stays safeguarded on the device and is—even for the recipient—out of reach at this stage.
Outcome
Payloads can later be encrypted selectively for individual recipients, and the timing of decryption can be controlled.
4
Vault encryption
The payloads contained in vault compartments are encrypted with the person‑bound keys of each assigned recipient.
Only the assigned recipient’s devices hold the private keys that can later make the information readable again.
Outcome
Vault payloads remain unreadable without the matching keys — independent of where they are stored.
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Distribute vaults
Encrypted vaults can either be distributed by you directly or delivered through DigitalerNachlass.App’s infrastructure. Each person chooses the balance they want between control and convenience.
Outcome
Until encrypted vaults and private keys are brought together under control, nobody can access the information they contain.
Private keys on intended recipients’ devices are strictly separate from DigitalerNachlass.App’s infrastructure.
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Updating vault contents
Vault contents can be revised, extended, or re-encrypted at any time.
Outcome
In an estate event, recipients gain access to the last released information baseline.
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Estate event · verified
For defined estate events, individualized release workflows are stored—started by designated trusted parties in the mobile app and confirmed within the prescribed process.
Outcome
Upon release, the required private keys—and, if you choose, the encrypted vaults—are delivered under control. Recipients can decrypt the data from that point onward.
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Recipients receive plaintext information
Decryption makes the assigned information available to recipients again in plaintext, ready to use in the intended context.
Outcome
Recipients hold the relevant information they need to manage the estate and step into legal succession.
From pricing to subscription
There may well be good reasons to put this off again today.
Price isn't one of them.