Pre-Seed · SEIS Eligible · £250k Raise

The kindest thing you can do
for the people you love.

Afterlife is a digital continuity platform that helps people organise the things that matter most, so the people they love never have to piece it all together alone.

7.2M 1% addressable users
SEIS eligible
£250k pre-seed

Your Afterlife

Everything safely organised, just in case

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Pension & Investments3 accounts recorded
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Property & Insurance2 policies stored
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Wishes & InstructionsLast updated today
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After ModeUnlocked only when needed
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When someone passes, families are left to piece together a lifetime of scattered information

Bank accounts, pensions, insurance policies, digital subscriptions, property documents, legal wishes. All fragmented. Discovered in a moment of grief.

Bank accounts
Pension providers
Insurance policies
Digital subscriptions
Property records
Utility accounts
Solicitors & legal docs
Personal wishes
Online accounts
Share certificates

It started with a conversation at home

"I'd be lost without you."

Helping people is at the heart of everything we do. But one ordinary evening, Kev and I were chatting and I said something half-joking, half-serious: I'd be lost without you.

And the truth is, I would. I'm a complete technophobe. If something happened to Kev tomorrow, I wouldn't know how to access his computer. I wouldn't know where to start running our business. I don't know his passwords.

Then he casually mentioned something about doing something with his shares. Shares? What shares? Apparently there were pensions too. Accounts. Things I had absolutely no idea about.

Then the conversation drifted somewhere else entirely. I told him: if anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll play Take That's Relight My Fire at my funeral. I love Take That and it'll make people smile.

And in that moment, something clicked. All these little conversations people have: the practical things, the important things, even the small personal wishes. They are scattered everywhere. In people's heads. In random documents. In emails. In drawers. Or sometimes nowhere at all.

And if the worst ever did happen, the people you love are left trying to piece everything together while they're already dealing with the hardest time of their lives.

That's when the idea for Afterlife was born.

Kev's background is in software design, so we knew if we did this, it had to be done properly. Secure. Thoughtful. Designed with care. And most importantly, it needed to feel human.

Afterlife is about peace of mind. It's about knowing that everything important is safely recorded, just in case. And it's about helping the people we love when they might need it most.

The Founders
Jen, Co-Founder
Heart & Vision
A career built on helping people, with a deep personal understanding of why organised legacy matters. The empathy and lived experience behind Afterlife's human-first approach.

Kev, Co-Founder
Product & Technology
Software design background with the technical expertise to build Afterlife properly. Responsible for the secure, thoughtful architecture that gives Afterlife its foundations.

"Most importantly, it needed to feel human. Not clinical. Not cold. Something that gently guides and supports people."

Two thoughtful modes.
One continuous journey.

Afterlife works with you before anything happens, and gently guides your loved ones if it ever does.

Before Mode
Organise life, gently
Everything important, safely stored at your own pace. Nothing urgent. Nothing overwhelming. Just the quiet confidence of knowing it's all in one place.
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    Organise accounts, assets, documents and personal wishes
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    Assign executors and beneficiaries with role-based access
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    Record personal wishes, even the ones that make people smile
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    Optional planning marketplace: wills, insurance, financial advice
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    Always editable. Always private. Always yours.
After Mode
Guidance, not discovery
When a family needs it most, Afterlife provides calm, step-by-step orientation rather than a chaotic search. Everything is unlocked intentionally, never stumbled upon.
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    Validated, role-based progressive unlock of information
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    Step-by-step orientation through a difficult process
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    Need-led marketplace: funeral directors, probate, estate clearance
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    Bereavement community support built in
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    Nothing is discovered. Everything is intentionally revealed

Nothing in After Mode is discovered. It is intentionally unlocked, removing panic and replacing it with continuity.

A structural problem in
every connected household

We focus on digitally reachable adults: a vast, underserved audience in markets where digital complexity is growing fastest.

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United Kingdom
~49M online adults
490k
1% take-up scenario
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European Union
~428M digitally active adults
4.28M
1% take-up scenario
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United States
~244M digitally reachable adults
2.44M
1% take-up scenario

7.2 million

Combined 1% addressable user scenario across UK, EU & USA

Even modest adoption represents a multi-million-user infrastructure opportunity
Digital explosion Increasing financial fragmentation and digital accounts mean the problem is growing, not shrinking.
Identity maturity Smartphone ubiquity and identity verification technology now make a secure solution truly viable.
No one owns this The infrastructure for a digital continuity layer exists. No brand has yet claimed it with care.

Free for families.
Revenue from guidance.

Afterlife is free to use. Revenue is generated through thoughtful marketplace referrals, never from exploiting grief.

1
Planning Marketplace
  • Will writing services
  • Insurance comparison
  • Financial advisory
  • Estate planning professionals
2
Situational Marketplace
  • Funeral directors
  • Probate solicitors
  • Estate clearance services
  • Bereavement support
3
Institutional Path
  • Life insurer bundling
  • Pension provider integration
  • White-label licensing
  • Employer benefits packages

💜 We do not monetise grief. We monetise guidance, planning, and service referral, connecting people with trusted providers at the right moment.

Built to be structurally hard to replicate

Afterlife's moat comes from architecture, trust, and network effects. Not just features.

⚖️

Cross-Institution Neutrality

No bank or insurer can own the entire estate journey. Afterlife sits across all of them, making us the only neutral layer.

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Role-Based Unlock Architecture

Progressive staged release, multi-role access, and death-validated gating. This is infrastructure logic, not a vault with a password.

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Emotional UX Precision

Tone, pacing, and empathy in bereavement flows are extraordinarily difficult to replicate authentically. Trust compounds over time.

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Marketplace Network Effects

As vetted providers join the platform, quality improves and switching costs increase for both families and service partners.

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Institutional Integration

Early partnerships with life insurers and pension providers embed distribution at scale, creating deep structural advantage.

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Brand in a Stigmatised Space

Being the trusted, human brand in a category people have historically avoided is a rare and durable advantage.

A helpful layer.
Never a replacement.

We use AI to reduce overwhelm and improve clarity, not to make decisions on behalf of families navigating the most sensitive moments of their lives.

✅ What AI does

Smarter onboarding Adaptive questions that detect missing categories and reduce the feeling of overwhelm during setup.
Enriched provider data Fetches official contact details, surfaces helpful pages, and summarises guidance with source links.
Plain English translation Explains complex legal or financial terms calmly, breaking long instructions into manageable steps.

🚫 What AI never does

Interpret wills or give legal advice All legal interpretation is handled by qualified professionals, not algorithmic guesswork.
Unlock data or bypass human judgement Every access decision is validated by humans. AI cannot override the unlock architecture.
Modify user-entered notes or wishes What people record is sacred. AI assists around it, never within it.
"AI is our clarity layer, not our decision-maker."

Focused pilot.
Validated foundations.

The £250k raise funds a controlled, insight-driven beta with 500 to 1,000 users, giving us the data to scale with confidence.

01

Finalise MVP

Complete platform development, harden security, and integrate identity validation to a production standard.

02

Controlled Beta

Launch to 500–1,000 carefully selected users. Measure onboarding completion and executor invite acceptance.

03

Marketplace Validation

Test click-through and conversion rates across planning and situational marketplace categories.

04

Institutional Conversations

Begin structured conversations with 2–3 life insurers to explore partnership and white-label models.

We know exactly what success looks like

Every metric maps directly to product-market fit and institutional appetite, the two things this raise is designed to validate.

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Onboarding Rate
Percentage of users completing the full Before Mode setup flow
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Executor Acceptance
Rate at which invited executors accept their role and complete verification
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Marketplace CTR
Click-through to marketplace providers from both Before and After modes
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Conversion Rate
Completed referrals and lead fees generated through the marketplace
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After Mode Usability
Qualitative and quantitative scoring of the After Mode experience flow

Raising £250,000
Pre-Seed

SEIS Eligible Raise
£250k

This round funds a 12–15 month runway to validate product-market fit and establish institutional appetite, positioning Afterlife as the neutral continuity layer across the estate industry.

MVP Completion & Refinement Platform finalisation and feature hardening
Identity Verification Integration Secure death validation and role access
Security Hardening Infrastructure and compliance foundations
Marketplace Onboarding Vetted provider acquisition and integration
Legal & Compliance Regulatory foundations for FCA-adjacent services
Early Marketing Experiments Channel testing and user acquisition pilots
Milestones by end of runway
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    1,000+ engaged users in controlled beta
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    Marketplace conversion data from real users
  • Executor adoption validated and measured
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    2–3 structured life insurer conversations in progress
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    After Mode flow tested with real bereavement scenarios
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    Series A narrative ready with validated metrics
The Vision

The digital infrastructure layer that bridges
life, continuity, and the people we love

Afterlife is not a vault. It is not a checklist. It is the platform that means the people you love never have to search in the dark when they need clarity most.

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