Trusted Directive is a new company with a small, focused, security-first team. This page is the part most companies skip — why we built it, the conviction behind it, and the principles we run it by, so you can hold us to them.
Our team has spent two decades inside startups — not watching from the side, but as the people building the partnerships and shipping the product. Two decades of business development teaches one durable skill: noticing where the channel actually is.
This category taught us where it isn’t. An earlier version of this product was sold straight to families, and the product itself was solid — real infrastructure, real security. But nobody wakes up thinking “I need a digital vault.” People think about it in an attorney’s office, holding a fresh stack of estate documents. Or when their financial advisor asks a simple question: if something happened to you tomorrow, would your family know where any of this is?
The families who never get asked that question tell the same story afterward. Months of searching. Accounts discovered by accident, or not at all.
The filing cabinet had labels — just not the right ones.
And the families who were handed a finished, findable plan describe it very differently: one of the greatest gifts they ever received. That gap — between the scavenger hunt and the gift — is the entire reason this company exists.
So Trusted Directive is built on one conviction: the right way to reach a family is through the professionals that family already trusts. Your attorney or advisor invites you. The vault shows you what’s missing — that’s Gap Discovery — and the Verify-Silence Release Protocol we’re building for alpha is designed to make sure the right people can reach it in an emergency, including incapacity, where no death certificate exists. Not another app you have to remember: a vault built into a relationship that already works.
We built Trusted Directive in early 2026 on its own hardened AWS infrastructure, self-funded, with no outside investors and no growth-at-any-cost mandate — which means no pressure to quietly change the deal after you’ve trusted us with your family’s documents.
— The Trusted Directive team
Values pages are easy to write and hard to keep. These four show up in the product, the pricing, and the fine print — so you can check them.
AES-256, AWS KMS, and named AWS controls you can look up — with no SOC 2 badge until an auditor issues one. What’s deployed is on the security page; what isn’t, we say plainly. A vault earns trust by being checkable, not by being loud.
Families stake emergency access on this vault, and partners stake their professional reputation on every invite they send. Reliability isn’t a quality metric here — it is the trust feature. We ship steady over flashy.
$120 the first year, $60 a year after — stated before you pay, everywhere pricing appears. Surprise renewals are this category’s oldest trick; we refuse to play. See pricing →
Advisors and attorneys join free and see document metadata only — never content. Advisors earn a flat 25% evergreen commission; attorneys, whose bar rules restrict referral fees, earn the information instead — retention reports and practice intelligence.
For registered reps and IARs, the 25% is an outside business activity: expect to give your firm prior written notice and to disclose it to clients — see the Partner Program Terms.
You should know exactly what you’re signing up for. We’re a small, security-first team — which means we grow deliberately: a small first group of families and partners, onboarded carefully, before we open the doors wider. You get direct attention, not a ticket queue.
And it means the exit door is built in by design. One-click export of everything — whether you stay, cancel, or we ever close our doors — is in development for alpha. A vault you can leave is the only kind worth trusting.
Questions about the protocol, the pricing, or partnership? Write to us. We read and answer every message, usually within one business day.
Advisor or attorney? Request a demo — or read how the Verify-Silence Release Protocol (in development for alpha) is designed to work first.