What is Evaheld, and how does it help me preserve my legacy?

Evaheld is a comprehensive digital legacy platform, essentially an online legacy vault, that combines story preservation, advance care planning support, and secure document organisation. It brings your important life content (stories, health directives, legal documents) into one place so families can access the right information when needed. By centralising these pillars, Evaheld reduces confusion and loss in estate and care planning.

Digital legacy preservation platform for stories, care wishes and essential documents

Evaheld is designed as an all-in-one legacy planning software system that merges three pillars: Story & Legacy, Health & Care, and Essentials. Instead of storing memories, medical wishes, and documents across separate apps, Evaheld's secure family vault keeps everything organised together. This matters because, in practice, separated content often gets lost or outdated. Evaheld's unified vault means your spouse or executor can find story recordings, wills, and care instructions in one place, preserving both meaning and paperwork for your legacy.

Preserve memories, values and family history in one secure Legacy Vault

The core of Evaheld's offering is a Legacy Vault where sentimental and practical content coexist securely. This addresses the high-intent need to preserve family stories online while keeping vital documents accessible. For example, instead of a photo in a smartphone app with no context, you can store the photo in Evaheld with a voice message explaining its significance. This reduces confusion because family context (the "why") is saved alongside the documents and wishes (the "what"). Evaheld's model aligns with searches like digital memory book platform and legacy letter service by treating personal legacy as equally important as legal planning.

Story & Legacy: capture memories, messages, photos, voice and video

Evaheld lets you capture your life story in many formats. You can write personal reflections, record voice notes, upload videos of special events, and craft legacy letters to loved ones. Key use cases include:

• Record life story online service: Guided prompts help you document life milestones and lessons. For instance, Evaheld may ask "What is a family tradition you cherish and why?" to trigger a meaningful memory.
• Ethical will online: Document your values and beliefs as a non-legal legacy message. These notes can be stored securely in the vault as part of your legacy.

This multi-format approach means your legacy isn't limited to text, it can truly capture you.

Health & Care: document advance care directives and healthcare wishes

Evaheld allows individuals to complete and store a legally valid Advance Care Directive directly within their Legacy Vault. People can complete the Evaheld Advance Care Directive, complete and store a healthcare directive from their state, territory, or any jurisdiction in the world, or upload an existing directive they have already created.

Once stored in the Vault, the directive can be securely shared with trusted contacts, loved ones, carers, and members of their medical team so the people who may need to advocate for them clearly understand their wishes in advance.

Each directive can also be connected to a customised Evaheld QR Emergency Access Card. This card enables authorised first responders and healthcare professionals to quickly access the directive during a medical emergency. Because the card connects directly to the individual’s secure Evaheld Vault, it always links to the most current version of the directive and any associated emergency information.

Individuals can also upload an existing directive and connect it directly to their QR Emergency Access Card. In addition, they can choose to include other important emergency details they would like healthcare teams to see, such as key medical information, emergency contacts, or other critical instructions.

This creates genuine emergency readiness. Instead of directives being lost in paperwork or stored somewhere no one can access during a crisis, Evaheld ensures healthcare instructions are legally documented, securely stored, easily shared with the right people, and immediately accessible when critical decisions must be made.

The result is clarity for families, confidence for clinicians, and peace of mind that a person’s healthcare wishes can be respected when they are unable to speak for themselves.

Advance Care Planning Platform: jurisdictional guidance

Australian guidance notes each state/territory has its own form requirements for Advance Care Directives. For instance:

• NSW: Recognises both common-law directions and statutory powers (e.g., by appointing an Enduring Guardian). Evaheld can store whichever document type you use.
• VIC: Uses a written Advance Care Directive (Medical Treatment Decision Maker Act), which must be signed and witnessed for legal effect. Evaheld's interface prompts users to follow signing steps.
• QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT: Each has its own name and procedure (e.g., Advance Health Directive). Evaheld includes help notes linking to official forms in these states.

By highlighting these differences, Evaheld ensures your documented care wishes are both clear and valid when the time comes.

Wills and Estate Planning: Securely Organise Your Essential Documents Online

In Evaheld’s Essentials pillar, individuals can organise and securely store the most important documents their family may need one day. This includes wills, powers of attorney, insurance policies, bank and financial details, identification documents, and other essential records that form the foundation of responsible estate planning.

Individuals can also add trusted contacts for their family within their Vault. These contacts can be given appropriate access so the right people know where important information is kept and can support loved ones when the time comes.

Executors and trusted contacts can then easily locate key documents — such as the will, identification records, insurance information, property details, and financial documents — without the confusion and stress families often face when important paperwork is scattered or difficult to find.

Evaheld also allows individuals to create a will directly within the platform, providing a clear and structured way to document their intentions and begin organising their estate planning. It offers a practical starting point for outlining how assets should be handled, who should act as executor, and how wishes should be carried out.

For many families, the challenge is not only creating these documents but ensuring they are organised and discoverable when they are needed. Evaheld addresses this by acting as a secure central vault where individuals can create, upload, and manage their will and other estate planning documents, while also recording where original signed copies are stored.

Individuals can also choose to add selected essential information or documents to their customised Evaheld QR Emergency Access Card if they wish. This allows authorised first responders or healthcare teams to quickly access critical details in an emergency while the full set of documents remains securely stored in the Vault.

By bringing estate planning documents, trusted contacts, and essential life records together in one secure place, Evaheld helps ensure that when the time comes, families have clarity rather than chaos.

End-of-life documents checklist

A practical checklist for users:

• Upload your will (and note where the original is kept)
• Upload your superannuation beneficiary forms (if applicable)
• Store advance care directives and physician details
• Document your powers of attorney (financial and personal)
• Upload insurance policies and key account info
• List important contacts (solicitor, accountant, GP)

This aligns with public advice from the NSW Government executor guide to keep these items up-to-date and accessible.

AI-guided legacy preservation with Charli for clarity and peace of mind

To reduce overwhelm, Evaheld features Charli, an AI companion that guides you through the process conversation-style. Charli asks simple questions ("What's most important to you?") rather than showing blank forms. This makes planning feel less clinical and more human, encouraging users to actually record their wishes and stories. Charli also helps decide which Room (Story, Care, Essentials) new information belongs to, keeping your vault organised.

Secure sharing, future delivery and privacy-first access control

Evaheld is built on privacy-by-default. Sharing content is done via Rooms: you create a Room (e.g., Family, Care, Essentials), add items, and invite specific people. Those invitees can only see what's in that Room, nothing else. For example, you might share an "Executor Room" containing your will and financial records with your executor, while your "Family Room" of photos stays private to loved ones. You can also schedule messages to deliver later (like a birthday video for a child's 21st) without exposing them now.

Security-wise, Evaheld uses bank-grade encryption and multi-factor authentication to protect your vault. Because it can store highly sensitive data (health info, identity docs), these measures are critical. Australian privacy law (APP11) requires reasonable steps to protect personal data, and the OAIC APP 11 security principle outlines this standard.

This is what "online legacy vault" control looks like

• Share Narrowly, Not Broadly: Only the content you explicitly put into a shared Room is accessible to others. You're in control of who sees each part of your story.
• Time-based and Future Access: You can set content to be visible now, or only after a future date or event (e.g., after you pass away or on a milestone).
• Revocable Permissions: If a relationship changes or roles shift, you can revoke someone's access to a Room at any time.

This structured approach supports "executor services or tools" intent by ensuring only the right people (e.g., executors, nominated carers) have access when needed, and privacy is maintained at all other times.

Important legal note

Evaheld's tools aid planning, but they do not replace legal advice. Legally binding documents (wills, advance care directives, powers of attorney) must meet formal requirements; for instance, signing and witnessing rules vary by state according to the Law Society of NSW will guidance. Always ensure your final documents comply with local laws. Evaheld helps you organise and communicate your wishes, but consult a lawyer or official form if needed.