How AfterLoss works
Two pathways, one workspace.
AfterLoss helps with the practical work that follows a death, and the quiet preparation that can precede one. Whichever brings you here, the steps are the same; only the moment is different.
Before the time comes
Planning ahead.
For the quiet preparation that spares your family later. Record wishes, gather documents, and name the people who will need to know, in your own time.
- Record funeral wishes, key information, and where things are kept
- Name an executor, a successor, and the people who should be involved
- Prepare the documents and decisions your family will need
- No deadlines; come back when life allows
Read about Planning Mode
After a death
When someone has died.
For the days, weeks, and months that follow. AfterLoss organises everything that needs to happen so you can focus on grieving, not admin.
- Step-by-step tasks for the first 48 hours, the first week, and beyond
- Phone scripts, emails, and letters for the organisations you need to contact
- A shared workspace for executors, family, and helpers
- Guidance for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
Read about The AfterLoss Case
The transition
From planning to bereavement, in one continuous case.
The two pathways are not separate products. They are two phases of the same case; the work done in one becomes the inheritance of the other.
- Years before
You record what your family will need.
Wishes, key information, documents, executors, successors. Add what you can; come back when life allows. The case waits patiently.
- When the time comes
The case transitions.
Your designated successor is notified. Planning Mode quietly becomes Bereavement Mode; everything you recorded is now waiting, ready to use.
- In the weeks after
Your family opens a case already organised.
Wishes are recorded. Documents are filed. Contacts are named. They can focus on grieving, not finding.
Inside the case
Five tools, four shared and one for planning ahead.
Information & Documents
Key information, documents, account details, and the location of physical items, all organised and shareable with the people who need them.
Five connected places for the things you collect: Key Information, Documents, Whereabouts, Contacts, and Digital Accounts. Read names and dates over the phone, find the spare keys, share the will with the executor.
Read about Information & Documents
Communications Kit
Phone scripts, email drafts and letter templates for the organisations you need to contact after a death, personalised with your case details.
Banks, utilities, pension providers, employers; what to say, what to send, what to ask for. Drafts are pre-filled from your case so you spend the call doing the work, not finding the words.
Read about Communications Kit
Funeral Wishes
Recording funeral wishes and sharing them with the people who will arrange things on your behalf.
A clear, structured place for the choices a family is otherwise asked to guess at: burial or cremation, the readings, the music, the people to invite. Written down so the conversation, when it comes, is short.
Read about Funeral Wishes
Collaboration
Multiple people on a case, with the right access for each, and a clean handover after a death.
Add an executor, a sibling, a partner, a successor. Each sees what they need to see, and the case continues smoothly when responsibility moves from one person to another.
Read about Collaboration
Family Pack
A printed A4 pack, generated from your own plan, that your family can pick up and use without needing your password, your phone, or you.
Where everything is, who to tell, the reference numbers each organisation asks for, and your wishes, gathered into thirteen sections and printed at home.
Read about Family Pack
Try AfterLoss when you're ready.
No deadlines. No time pressure. Clarity when you need it.