Built by someone who lived it

In 2019, my father passed away after a long illness. He'd named me executor — a responsibility I accepted without really understanding what it meant.

I thought the hard part would be the legal paperwork. I was wrong.

The hard part was the phone calls.

My two sisters, my uncle, my dad's cousin, my stepmother — everyone had questions. Reasonable questions. But the same questions, over and over.

I was working full-time, parenting two kids, and spending my evenings on the phone repeating the same updates. I missed my son's baseball game because I was explaining probate timelines to my uncle. Again.

One night, after a particularly exhausting call, my wife said:

“Why isn't there just a website where everyone can see what's going on?”

I looked. There wasn't.

So I built one.

HeirPortal is the tool I wish I'd had. A simple dashboard where executors post updates once, and family members see them instantly. No more phone tag. No more repeating yourself. No more choosing between grieving and communicating.