Introducing SafeKept

Why we built it

Nobody expects to become an executor.

You find out on a Tuesday afternoon, usually in a phone call you were not prepared for. Someone you love has died, and now you are responsible for closing their financial life. Banks. Pension providers. Insurance companies. HMRC. The subscription to a streaming service you did not know they had.

You start making calls. Each institution wants a certified copy of the death certificate. Each one has its own process. Some want a letter. Some want you to come into a branch. Some do not respond for weeks. Meanwhile the estate sits open, accounts keep charging, and you are doing all of this while grieving.

I watched this happen to people I care about. And when I started looking at the tools available to help, I found almost nothing. A few PDF templates. Some solicitor firms charging thousands of pounds for administration that could be systematised. An industry that had not fundamentally changed since the 1980s.

That is when I started building SafeKept.

What problem we are solving

The UK registers over 568,000 deaths every year. Each one creates an estate that needs to be administered - accounts notified, assets transferred, subscriptions cancelled, documents located.

The people doing that work are mostly family members with no training, no central record of what the deceased owned, and no structured way to notify the dozens of institutions involved.

Imagine trying to locate every bank account, pension, insurance policy, subscription, crypto wallet, and utility provider your parent used - without a list, a password, or a central record. That is the situation most executors face today. And it is completely avoidable.

At the same time, our financial lives have never been more complex or more digital. The average person today holds accounts across multiple banks, investment platforms, pension providers, and subscription services. Many hold cryptocurrency. Almost none of them have left their executor a complete record of what they own or where to find it.

Why now

The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 has formally recognised digital assets as capable of being objects of personal property rights under English law. The infrastructure for helping families actually locate and transfer those assets after death still does not exist.

That is the gap SafeKept closes.

When you look at the bereavement administration space, you notice something striking. The major players in estate administration software were built for solicitors in the early 2000s. The Death Notification Service - the closest thing the UK has to a centralised notification channel - is a consortium arrangement that most families have never heard of and cannot access directly.

Nobody has built the consumer-facing layer. Nobody has connected the vault where you store your accounts to the executor dashboard where they get closed. Nobody has built the professional portals that let solicitors, accountants, and funeral homes participate in the same workflow.

The technology to do all of this has existed for years. The urgency has never been greater.

Join us

SafeKept is live. You can start your vault for free at safekept.co.uk.

David Adeoye Founder, SafeKept