EverEase

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The Phone Call

It was a Tuesday night when Rebecca called. Her husband Steve had just passed away suddenly at 64. Heart attack at his desk. No warning.

What hit me wasn't just the grief in her voice, it was the panic. "I don't even know where he kept the life insurance papers," she said. "I can't get into his email. The bank wants documents I've never heard of."

Watching a Friend Struggle

Over the next few months, I watched my competent, organized friend completely unravel. Not from grief alone, but from the maze of accounts, passwords, and paperwork that Steve left behind.

She'd call me at random hours: "Found another credit card today. How many more are there?" Or: "The investment advisor says there's an account in Singapore we forgot about."

Her daughter flew home from college three times to help. They spent entire weekends sorting through filing cabinets, making endless phone calls, trying to piece together Steve's financial life like some impossible jigsaw puzzle.

The Moment Everything Changed

One evening, sitting at Rebecca's kitchen table surrounded by sticky notes and folders, she said something that stuck with me: "Steve spent 30 years taking care of us. But when he died, it felt like he disappeared, not just physically, but digitally too. All his knowledge, all his careful planning, locked away in his head."

That's when I knew I had to do something.

Building EverEase

We’re not a grief counselor or an estate attorney, nor are we a developer. Caley is a Father of 2 young children and a husband who watched a friend suffer unnecessarily, while Adam is still helping his mom sort out her sister’s estate after passing 7 years ago. So we started building what Rebecca needed, a simple place to store all the important stuff, accessible to the right people at the right time.

No legal jargon. No 50-page forms. Just a secure digital space where you can say: "Here's what you need to know. Here's where everything is. Here's who to call."

The AI assistant? That came from Rebecca saying she wished someone could just tell her what to do next. The document vault? That's for all those papers scattered across Steve's office. The contact list? So no one has to Google "estate lawyer near me" while planning a funeral.

What Drives Us

EverEase exists because I believe planning for the end shouldn't feel like giving up, it should feel like one last act of love. Every feature we add, every improvement we make, comes from real stories like Rebecca's.

That's what we're building, not just an estate planning app, but peace of mind. For the planners who want to leave love, not chaos. For the families who deserve comfort, not confusion.

Because in the end, the best gift you can give your family isn't just what you leave behind, it's how easy you make it for them to find it.

## What it does EverEase makes end of life planning easier, and takes away the confusion when a loved one passes away.

EverEase allows you to upload asset information, legal, insurance, and medical documents, a will, executors, and personal messages to contacts. When you assign an executor, they can receive access to all relevant information when they upload a valid death certificate. They are even provided with tailored outreach messages to estate planners, lawyers, insurers, bankers, and other contacts.

How we built it

Tools used: Supabase Netlify IONOS Domain Stripe Resend

Challenges we ran into

Integrating tools in bolt became a challenge, especially as the codebase expanded.

Directing Emma (our AI Assistant) to understand our UI, user problems, and be able to do a consistent yet adaptable walkthrough of processes was a challenge.

Constant disconnecting from the correct Github repo or Netlify deploy gave us some headaches.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The entire workflow of uploading your medical, financial, and insurance documents and assets, and encrypting where necessary. The ability to write your will, and choose your executors.

The Onboarding Assistance Process, for both the planner, and the grieving executor.

The ability of the executor to send customized and tailored messages to the deceased’s contacts, such as estate managers, lawyers, bankers, insurance brokers, and people in their will and wishes.

What we learned

We learned about many of the major issues people face when a loved on dies. Often they revolve around overwhelm, grief, and a lack of understanding of what assets exist and what to do next. We’ve created a space where users can organize all of this information, and loved ones can easily reach out to managing parties and contacts to get the process started.

What's next for EverEase

Getting the regulatory approvals in place so that we can provide this solution to people.

Built With

• domain
• ionos
• netlify
• openai
• postgresql
• resend
• stripe
• supabase
• typescript