Stripe, AWS, your domain registrar, every vendor login — delivered to the right person, only on the trigger you choose. Encrypted, time-bound, revocable.
No credit card. 2 GB free. Works with Google, Microsoft, or email login.
Store
Credentials and access packages encrypted on your device, organized by recipient and scope.
Update
Rotate keys, add vendors, revoke access — versioned as your business evolves.
Deliver
On the trigger you set, to the operator you choose, scoped and time-bound by default.
Stripe credentials with refund authority, payout management, and subscription control — assigned to one designated recipient on a manual trigger. The most concrete handoff you can set up in ten minutes.
Domain registrar, hosting, AWS or its equivalent, the third-party SaaS the business runs on — categorized by criticality. Some available immediately on the trigger, some time-locked.
For co-founded businesses where one person owns a domain — sales, technical, financial. The logins and context only that person holds, scoped to the co-founder who'd step in.
Four steps. Here's exactly what happens to your data.
1. Write or upload, on your device
You write, paste, or upload your handoff documents on your own machine. Everything is encrypted client-side — before it leaves your computer — so it reaches our servers already unreadable. "Files" here means whatever the job needs: documents, a recorded walkthrough, a voice note, screenshots, exports.
2. Set the delivery rule
Choose the recipient, the trigger condition (a date, your manual command, or inactivity), the scope, and any time-bound limits. Each rule is independent, editable, and revocable any time before it fires.
3. We hold only the encrypted package
Vaulternal stores the ciphertext. We don't hold the keys, so we can't read the contents — and neither can anyone you haven't provisioned. Every action is logged for an end-to-end audit trail.
4. The recipient is guided through delivery
When the trigger fires, your recipient is walked through verifying their identity and unlocking exactly what you left them. They need nothing pre-installed and don't have to understand the cryptography.
The alternatives founders actually weigh — and where each one runs out of room.
1Password handles your passwords, and its Emergency Access lets a trusted contact recover them after a waiting period. Vaulternal handles the rest: the structured handoff documents, the runbook, the vendor relationships, the customer context a password manager was never meant to hold — with granular triggers, multiple recipients at different scopes, and no requirement that recipients use Vaulternal.
1Password wins for pure password recovery, and if you already run it, keep it.
Faster to start, free, and familiar. But anyone with the link can read it — including the platform — it dies with your account, and it can't deliver itself conditionally or scope access to a specific recipient.
Wins on speed to first draft. A fine place to start; a risky place to stop.
Old-school but real. Hard to update, doesn't scale, and won't deliver electronically — which makes it a poor fit for operational documents that change every week.
Wins for a small set of genuinely sensitive, rarely-changing instructions.
Veeam, Rubrik, Datto and the like are for backup, disaster recovery, and large-org continuity. A different category. Vaulternal is for the human and operational layer — the context, not the infrastructure.
Legal instruments, and you should have the ones that apply to you. Vaulternal doesn't replace them — it complements them by carrying the operational handoff that legal paperwork was never meant to cover.
Documents and credentials together. No account required for recipients. Granular triggers, scopes, and expirations. And scheduled deliveries that are committed when you set them, so they hold independently of your subscription.
Most solo founders mean to set this up for years and never do. Vaulternal makes the start a ten-minute decision.
You read this section more carefully than most visitors do — so the claims here are precise.
Files are encrypted on your own device, with keys that stay with you. We store only the encrypted package and never hold the keys to open it — so we cannot read your contents, and neither can anyone you haven't provisioned.
Every delivery is a rule you set: a date, your manual command, an inactivity window, or a combination. Each recipient gets a key wrapped specifically for them. You can edit, cancel, or re-scope any rule before it fires, and every action is auditable end-to-end.
Scheduled deliveries are committed at the moment you schedule them, regardless of subscription status, and storage is redundant today. For deliveries that must survive any single company's existence, on-chain permanence is available as an option at scheduling time.
Start free, add your first packet, and upgrade only when you outgrow it. For most founders the hard part was never the price — it was finding the ten minutes to begin.
Try the vault. Store your most important files. Set one delivery rule.
For the files and people that matter most. Multiple recipients, real-time family sharing.
Billed $84.00/year
Everything Vaulternal can do. Unlimited rules, all delivery types, full vault.
Billed $180.00/year
No credit card. 2 GB free. Most founders write the first document in under ten minutes.