About Shelter
We’re Jason and Andrew, the founders of Shelter. Here’s our story.
Why We Built Shelter
Shelter exists to help families navigate the most difficult moment in life. Losing a loved one is often traumatic, and that’s before you have to take care of all of the paperwork, the legal issues, and the stuff.
Proper estate planning means having a will that outlines what should happen to your assets. It means having an advanced directive so your family understands your wishes. And it means providing transparency to your loved ones so they can access everything they need.
No one wants to leave their family a mess to deal with. Your loved ones’ memories of you shouldn’t include scrambling to find passwords, accounts, phone pin codes, or email logins.
Shelter gives your loved ones access to everything they need, organized thoughtfully by you. It’s the tool every person who’s lost a loved one wishes they had.
It’s the platform your loved ones will be thankful you gave to them.
Jason Unger & Andrew Buck
The empty book
After Jason’s parents passed, he found a book while cleaning out their house. Everything You Need to Know When I’m Gone – 100 pages of questions meant to guide him through everything they’d left behind.
But they never filled it out.
They bought it, which is worth something. But a book with 100 unanswered questions isn’t a guide. It’s a reminder of what could have been, if they’d had an easier way.
What are people supposed to do?
- Put their entire life into a paperback book, filled out once and then never updated?
- Create endless spreadsheets of rows and columns for everything?
- Store a desk drawer’s worth of things in a safe and hope your loved ones know how to access it?
There isn’t a streamlined solution. That’s why we built Shelter.
Life is complicated enough when things are going well.
When your family deals with the hard times – the death of a parent or spouse – it gets way more difficult. It’s not just the will or last wishes. It’s bank accounts. Selling a car or home. Canceling a Netflix subscription.
Try putting together the pieces of someone’s life after they’re gone, and you realize how much was scattered, how much was unfindable, how much time was lost at the worst possible moment.
Shelter makes storing and sharing your accounts and assets easy, and gives you control over who can access them and when.
Here’s how it works.
You add the items that matter in a set of curated categories.
Invite a Trusted Contact – they’ll have view-only access to your Shelter so they can access it when they need it.
Get reminded to update your Shelter on a regular basis as life changes.
Find peace of mind. Your loved ones will thank you later. Try it out now.
Build Your Shelter Today
Bring comfort and peace of mind to your loved ones by giving them everything they’ll need to know.