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Everything a family faces, before and after a loss.

Afterward guides you through planning ahead and settling what's left, so you can grieve, not Google. It's one account for both, so whichever stage you're in, you never start over.

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Get affairs in order calmly, together, before you ever need to.

I'm getting my own affairs in orderI'm helping an aging parent prepareA loss may be near
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We've lost someone.

Step-by-step help through everything that comes after. At your pace.

A parent recently passedI've been named executorWe're partway through settling
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It never arrives one piece at a time.

Accounts, deeds, policies, subscriptions, the pension nobody knew about. Afterward keeps the whole of it in one place and tells you which piece needs you today.

A guide who already knows your family's story.

Lumen is the one who walks you through this, asking instead of making you fill in forms, and remembering what you told her. Warm and hands-on while you plan. Calm, quiet and mostly out of the way when you're grieving. The same guide either way: never a stranger, never starting over.

Planning
After a loss

What settling an estate asks of a family, and almost none of it is the grieving.

20mo
average to settle an estate
$12.5K
average out-of-pocket cost
67%
can't find essential documents
44%
of families fight over estates

The ecosystem

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Why we built this

“We each lost our fathers. We thought the hard part would be the grief. Then the problems with our brothers began. Three completely different families, the same fractures. Afterward is the thing we wish we'd had, on both sides of that day.”
Shannon, Billy and Colton
the three of us who built Afterward
from our families, to yours

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