I built Harbor after my wife said something I couldn't stop thinking about: if something happened to me, where would she even start?

In our house, I'm the one who tracks the money. The accounts, the policies, the trust, the annual renewals nobody enjoys. We did the responsible things after having kids — the will, the trust, the life insurance. But the daily stuff was scattered everywhere.

My wife pointed out that she didn't really have access to, or insight into, where everything lived. The life insurance policy was in one Google Drive. Important documents were in a filing cabinet. The mortgage was through one bank, the car loan through another. And the passwords? They lived in a document literally called DON'T LOSE THIS, which of course was outdated anyway. Nothing was hidden from her on purpose. It just lived in my head, my email, and a folder structure only I understood. She wasn't unprepared. She was locked out of a system I had built without meaning to.

It wasn't an emergency. It was an obvious gap we'd both been ignoring. And once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it. The paperwork people talk about — the will, the trust — assumes the worst day. It says nothing about the ordinary Tuesday where one person simply can't act and the other has to.

That gap is what Harbor closes.

Harbor is meant to complement the legal side of estate planning, not replace it. One secure place for everything it takes to run your household: accounts, insurance, documents, passwords, plus the random stuff like contractors, subscriptions, and the family info only one person usually knows.

A password manager hands someone keys. It doesn't tell them what exists, who owns it, or what to do first. So Harbor organizes a household the way a person actually thinks about it: by the people and the entities that own things. Every account, property, vehicle, and document points back to a person or a trust — so someone can start from a name and see everything, instead of opening folders and guessing.

And when the moment comes, nobody at Harbor approves anything. You already decided. The person you named requests access, you're emailed instantly and can close it with one tap, and if you can't respond, it opens on the timer you set. Silence is the safety net. No paperwork to chase, no company standing in the middle of an already hard moment.

We're deliberate about what that requires of us. Sensitive fields are encrypted before they're stored. Two-factor is mandatory. Households are isolated at the database layer, so your parents' vault and yours never touch. You can export everything, in the clear, any day you like — because a vault you can't leave isn't a vault, it's a hostage situation.

Harbor is small, independent, and built by people who use it on their own families. There's a free version, so anyone can get started and protect their family without spending a dime. If you've ever thought "if something happened to me, they'd have no idea where to start" — that thought is the whole product.

— Jordan

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