The vault holds your documents.The Life Story holds you.

The single most painful inheritance is not money — it is missing context. Families inherit the documents and lose the person. The Life Story is the part of Henedo engineered to fix that asymmetry. It is the 1,082 prompts no other legacy product ships, organised across the ten dimensions below. Click into any of them; the first prompt in the category is shown as a preview.

The will tells your family what you owned. The vault tells them where the documents are. Neither tells them who you were. For most families this is the gap that hurts most — and the one no other estate-planning product even attempts to fill. A folder of policies arrives without context. A box of photographs arrives without names. The artefacts inherit; the person does not.

The Life Story is engineered to close that gap at the moment it is easiest to capture — now, in your own words, in your own voice, from one quiet question at a time. Two minutes a week is one hundred answers in two years. Your grandchildren will not get a grandparent of theirs without you somewhere on this list; you can be the one who answered.

The thousand prompts are not arbitrary. They were curated category by category against the questions families say, decades after a parent or grandparent has gone, that they wished they had asked. What was the walk to school like? What did your first kitchen smell like? Who did you eat lunch with at school, and what did you talk about?Small, specific, irreplaceable.

Every Life Story answer — text, voice, video — is encrypted client-side using AES-256-GCM under a per-answer key, wrapped under your master key, derived from your passphrase plus your device-bound Account Secret Key (ASK) via Argon2id (64 MB). The boundary is identical to the document vault and the journal. The server stores ciphertext and metadata it cannot read. There is no transcription pipeline, no ML inference, no admin override.

The Life Story is not a separate cryptosystem. It reuses the same primitives as the rest of the platform — see the security page for the full architecture and the architecture page for why bundling adds no new attack surface.

Your Life Story uses the same release rules as the rest of the vault. While you are alive, only you can read it: the platform refuses to serve your ciphertext to anyone else, including trusted contacts who already hold valid keys for your document vault.

When the dead man's switch fires (180-day inactivity, 5-week warning cascade), your designated contacts unlock a chronological reader alongside the document vault. The Life Story is not a separate handoff; it is one chronicle alongside everything else you stored.

Inclusion of Life Story content in an Eternal Vault sealing and per-recipient routing for individual answers are on the public roadmap, not features we ship today. We surface what we ship and label the rest as roadmap. The cryptographic guarantee that what you record reaches who you intend, on the dead man's switch, is shipped today.

Ten samples — one from each dimension. Most prompts are this small. Most answers take a minute or two of voice. Most lives have decades' worth.

Trust & Will, LegalZoom, and Everplans are document-and-storage products. None of them ship a guided memoir layer. The closest analogues are paid memoir-writing services and ghostwriter packages costing $4,000 to $40,000 — outside what most families ever consider.

Life Story is included on every paid plan. The free Witness tier gets a preview so you can try the format before committing.