A plan means they can be carried on.
Your photos, messages and social media accounts do not pass on by themselves. FortifiedWall helps you plan now for the people you choose to carry them on.
Every digital life is different.
Your digital legacy is the photos, videos, voice notes, messages, posts, letters, stories and creative work you leave, and the accounts you keep them in. You decide which of them matter: it might be a camera roll you never posted, a thread with your daughter, or your father's scanned letters.
Then ask of each: if nothing is done now, would the next generation lose it for good?
We work through five stages with you.
Protection comes first, because you cannot gather or hand over the photos, posts, messages in an account you no longer control.
Secure first
Make your email, your phone's account and the other accounts in your plan harder to get into: stronger passwords in a password manager, two-step sign-in. Add a habit for messages that rush you: pause, ask, confirm. For the ask step, you can send the message to Is This A Scam?
What we do together
A scam asks you to act
A message asks you to click, reply, pay, share a code or grant access. For the ask step, you can send it to Is This A Scam? before you act.
A weak setting can be used without any message
A reused password, a phone with no more updates or an old recovery number can be used with no message at all. The defense is stronger settings: a password manager, two-step sign-in and updates. Where it fits, add a security key you plug in or tap to sign in.
We start with your email and your phone's account, because they are the way back into many of your other accounts. Then we practice the habit on an example of a suspicious message. Neither defense removes all risk, and neither replaces the other.
Capture the legacy
Find every place your digital legacy is kept. Write down what is in each place and who owns it.
What we do together
Your digital legacy may be in the camera roll, the iCloud or Google Photos library, the old laptop, device backups or cloud folders. Add voicemails, recipes and the family tree to the list too.
For each place we write down the owner, the service and roughly how much is there.
Curate what matters
Decide what to save, share, leave to one person, keep up as a memorial, or delete. Add the names, dates and stories that make a photo mean something.
What we do together
The service controls the pictures and posts you have put in a shared album or on social media, not you. Sharing is not saving. For what you save, we help you make a separate copy, check it opens, and write down where it is and who owns it.
Prepare the handoff
Name the people you trust and write down your wishes. Turn on the settings your accounts offer for after you are gone.
What we do together
You decide who holds legal authority, who handles the devices and who knows the stories. We help you set up tools such as Apple's Legacy Contact and Google's Inactive Account Manager, and write down what each one covers and what it does not.
A security key, a locked drive and printed instructions are set up ahead of time, labeled and kept where you decide. A key gives no one legal authority, and it only works if it was set up while you could still do it.
Then we walk through the handoff once with the people you named, so they have done it before they need to.
Maintain
Over the years, accounts and phones change and people move. Look at the plan again once a year.
What we do together
Once a year, we go through five questions with you. Do the ways back in still lead to you? Are the people you trust still the right ones and still reachable? Are the saved copies where you wrote? Have you changed phones or accounts? If you placed a fraud alert or a credit freeze, is it still in place?
You can send a message that looks wrong to Is This A Scam? any time.
You are putting your affairs in order or helping someone who is.
You are putting an estate plan in place
The will names who decides. It does not open the phone, the email or the photo library.
You are helping a parent
You can see the accounts piling up and the passwords on paper. We work with both of you at the pace you set.
You are about to change phones or retire
A new phone is when two-step codes, backups and recovery details can quietly break. A good time to set them up.
You hold the only copies
If the family photos, recordings and letters live on one drive or one account, we help you make a second copy and check it opens.
Start with a workshop or the assessment.
A one-hour workshop
In a local session, you go through the five stages with the worksheet. Start here if you want to hear about all five stages first.
WorkshopsThe readiness assessment
We go through your worksheet and how your accounts are set up. We reply by email with the cost and available times. Nothing is booked or charged until you have them in writing and have said yes.
What the assessment coversA family can have the will and instructions in place and still be locked out of the phone, the email and the photo library.
Jayme Johnston, founder of FortifiedWall
Why FortifiedWall exists
Start with the readiness assessment.
Bring your worksheet even if it is only half finished. You leave with written priorities, steps to take yourself and a written list of any work you want done. The assessment is useful on its own.
Not ready for that? Come to a one-hour workshop first.