Epilogue

What Epilogue does

Epilogue is a gentle, privacy-first life-admin diagnostic. It asks a few questions about your age, responsibilities and circumstances, then maps you to a life stage and builds a personalised checklist of the documents, accounts and decisions your loved ones would need if something happened to you.

The goal is not to sell anything or store your data. It is to help people notice the gaps in their practical affairs before those gaps become someone else's crisis.

How it works

1. Safety check. We ask whether you are on a private device. This decides how your answers are held while you work.
2. About you. A handful of questions about age, dependents, property, business assets and how you prefer to pace the work.
3. Your stage. We match your answers to a life stage and show the key risks and artefacts that tend to matter at that point.
4. Your vault. A checklist of the items that tend to matter at your stage, which you shape into your own list and work through at your pace, then export as a password-protected PDF.

How the checklist works

The vault treats a tick the way a real checklist does: it means the work is done, not that you intend to do it. Every item sits in one of two places:

• On my list. The items you're actively working through. Essential items start here; anything else can be brought in at any time. An item can only be ticked done once it has a note recording where things stand — if the note is cleared, the tick comes off too, so the two never disagree.
• Set aside for now. Everything you've decided isn't for you right now. Non-essential items start here to keep the list manageable. These items are visually muted and can't be ticked, but you can still add notes — and if you do, the tool will gently offer to put the item back on your list.

Progress is shown as "X of Y done" across the items on your list, with a quiet count of what's set aside. Nothing is ever pre-ticked: only you can say the work is finished.

Privacy and data

There is no server database, no analytics payload, and no cloud account. We also do not send notification data anywhere: browser nudges and calendar reminders are generated locally from your own choices.

What this prototype is for

This is an internal design and testing build. We are exploring:

• whether the life-stage model feels accurate and useful,
• whether the privacy promise is credible and understandable,
• whether the checklist language is clear rather than overwhelming,
• and whether the pacing options suit different kinds of users.

Feedback from colleagues, testers and potential users is welcome. The checklist categories, life-stage boundaries and risk callouts are all expected to change as we learn more.

What is not here yet

• Import or restore of any exported file.
• Multi-language support.
• Accessibility audit and screen-reader testing.
• Mobile refinement beyond the current responsive layout.
• Triggers are captured but do not yet change anything — the answer to “what is driving your focus today?” is stored, but it does not tailor the checklist yet.

Ideas for future features

• Trigger-driven workflows. Use the trigger answer to reorder or shortlist the checklist — for example, an upcoming appointment surfaces the documents a solicitor will ask for, while a health priority leads with directives and medical records.
• Family linking. Complete a plan for yourself, then start one for a partner, child or parent, with useful cross-links between them (shared documents, named decision-makers, overlapping key contacts) while keeping each person’s notes separate and still fully on-device.

Credits and approach

Built with TanStack Start, React and Tailwind CSS. Typography by Fraunces and Karla. The design direction is warm, compassionate and unhurried: no dashboards, no urgency, no dark patterns.