About us
We built a vault we cannot open
Your accounts, documents, crypto, and memories should outlive you on your terms — reaching the people you trust without ever passing through a company that can read them.
Our mission is simple: make secure digital inheritance something an ordinary family can actually use. We combine zero-knowledge encryption, verifiable Protection Check-Ins, and least-privilege access so that the right people gain access at the right moment — and no one, including us, gains it before then.
Why we exist
Digital lives disappear when the people left behind can't reach them
When someone dies or becomes incapacitated, their digital life often becomes unreachable overnight. Bank and brokerage logins, tax and property documents, self-custodied crypto, years of photos and correspondence — locked behind passwords and second factors that no one else has.
The tools that promise to help usually solve the problem by making it worse: they ask you to hand a company your secrets in plaintext, so it can pass them on later. That is a single point of catastrophic failure, and it means trusting a provider — and every future employee, acquirer, and subpoena — with the keys to your entire life.
LifeWyn started after watching a family spend months untangling accounts, policies and passwords following a loss — with no single place to even start, and no way to know what they didn't yet know about. We built the vault we wished had existed then.
Zero-knowledge inheritance
Your vault contents and documents are encrypted on your own device before they reach us. We store the encrypted result and the rules you set. The keys that decrypt it are derived from your passphrase on your device and are not sent to us.
You keep your protection current with periodic check-ins. If, and only if, multiple independent signals confirm you can no longer respond, we release the encrypted key-shares your nominees need to recover exactly what you granted them.
You never surrender control while you live. We never gain it at all.
The people building it
Two founders, one uncomfortable decision
Vinod leads growth and the nominee experience at LifeWyn, with a background in financial services.
linkedin.com/in/vinod-dhakad-004a77148Kishor leads product and security architecture at LifeWyn, with a background in software engineering and financial technology.
linkedin.com/in/kishor-dhakad-onlineWhere we are
LifeWyn is operated by LifeWyn Global Private Limited, registered in India, at Near Flipkart Building, Embassy Tech Village, Outer Ring Road, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103. Data is hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Mumbai (ap-mumbai-1). You can write to support@lifewyn.com. A person answers.
How we decide things
The trade-offs we've written down
Every product makes trade-offs. These are ours, written down so you can hold us to them.
We would rather be slow than wrong
A release that happens a week late is an inconvenience. A release that happens when it should not have is irreversible. Every time we have had to choose between the two, we have chosen slow. That is why silence alone never opens anything, and why a death certificate on its own is not enough.
We do not hold what we do not need
We could have built this so that we hold the keys. It would have been easier, support would have been simpler, and we could have offered password resets. We chose not to, which means we genuinely cannot help someone who loses their passphrase and their recovery shares. That is uncomfortable. It is also the only version of this product worth building.
We say what we have not done yet
As of today, no external firm has audited LifeWyn's security, and no penetration test has been commissioned — that is planned once we reach general availability. We would rather tell you what is still missing than let you find out later. When our first outside security review is complete, the report goes up here in full, including anything it finds.
What we will never do
Five things we've committed to, in writing
Your vault stays unreadable to us.
It's encrypted on your device before it ever reaches us. We hold ciphertext, not plaintext — and we are not going to rebuild the system so that we can see inside it.
We will never sell or share your data.
There is also almost nothing to sell, because the part that matters is encrypted.
We will never add a master key, a support-desk override, or a back door.
For any customer, at any price.
We will never hold your money.
Your bank holds your deposits and your broker holds your investments. We hold the map.
We will never disappear quietly.
If we ever have to close, our Longevity Guarantee kicks in: you get at least 90 days' advance notice, a full export window to take everything with you, and your data key is escrowed so your vault opens without us — even after we're gone.
Where we are today
LifeWyn was founded in 2025. We're a small team — fewer than ten people — currently focused on hardening the core vault and inheritance-release flow ahead of our first outside security review. We're a young company, and we'd rather say that plainly than dress it up: no invented numbers like "thousands of families trust us" here.
Our principles
The commitments we build against
Every feature we ship has to answer to these. If a shortcut would compromise one of them, we don't take it.
How we're different
Not a password manager. Not a will service.
We sit in the gap they leave open — releasing access under verified conditions, without ever being able to read what we release.
- Authenticated encryption
XChaCha20-Poly1305
Authenticated encryption
- Keys never leave your device
Client-side only
Keys never leave your device
- Your vault reaches us encrypted
Zero-knowledge
Your vault reaches us encrypted
- Nominees supported worldwide
Multi-country
Nominees supported worldwide
Start with the ten things only you know
Set up your vault in minutes. Stay in complete control while you live, and know your digital legacy is protected for when you can't.