Founder of Heir Tight, a digital platform for securely storing and sharing important personal and legal documents, Natalie Alexander, has been developing her innovative software tool for every organizational and life planning need for the last two decades.
Her drive to empower family members and get their affairs in order comes from 16 years in hospitality. In her early 20s, Natalie had chosen to leave medical school so that she could help expand her dad's restaurant brand. She went on to run several restaurants for the next decade-and-a-half.
During this time, she became intimately familiar with the privilege of being able to grow and scale new ventures. "I've been an entrepreneur all my life. I have always valued my own freedom and flexibility over the whims of someone else," recalls Natalie.
Along with the turn of the new millennium came the dot-com boom. A fledgling internet took over the world, becoming a prerequisite for the existence of anyone and any business. So, Natalie's entrepreneurial drive of always looking ahead began conjuring up her next venture. As digitization became the norm, the question came to be: "What's a common problem that people face today and how can I be a part of the solution?"
In 2004, Natalie's uncle unfortunately passed away. It was the lengthy and complicated process of sorting through his life in documents that led to Heir Tight's inception—the fact that everyone dies, and other people are always left behind to pick up where they left off. For the next 15 years, the idea burned in her gut until she pivoted from the hospitality industry in 2019. By then, her restaurants had accumulated the necessary seed money to look for the right developer to bring Heir Tight to life.
Heir Tight sets itself apart from other document storage companies with its unique ability to manage its users' documents. Users have the distinctive option to store, access, and share their documents with non-users, who can choose to receive shared documents on their own Heir Tight dashboards without paying for a subscription. Additionally, documents can be revoked or given access to by others at the sharer's command. With this level of accessibility, Heir Tight dashboards become the one-stop shop for all a user's document management needs.
Users can now store, manage, and share all important documents—their personal legal files, wills, financial statements, hospital records, and even children's important documents alike—to easily organize and share whenever needed as well as through their built-in estate planning AI platform, create wills, living wills and power of attorneys, from the comfort of their homes. A hassle-free database that can be accessed from anywhere enables individuals to plan their lives and afterlives in peace and share them with services and loved ones at a moment's notice.
Previously, there was an opaque and differentiated wall in front of individuals trying to access their private information. Each system that stored vital documents—attorney's files, accounting documents, hospital files, school files, and more—was separate and could not communicate with each other, much less with their clients. With Heir Tight, clients can enjoy transparent relationships with the many organizations that manage their affairs, all assembled in one airtight home.
To ensure that their wide applicability can empower everyone to feel confident in their life plans, Heir Tight's UI is as easy as pie to navigate. Users simply need to create their Heir Tight account to upload files of any size onto their dashboard. They can then feel secure with Heir Tight's end-to-end encryption and HIPAA compliance to share documents with anyone whose email they have access to.
As Natalie and her team at Heir Tight continue their path toward the cutting edge, the platform hopes to become a household name for secure document sharing. With a mission to facilitate the bureaucratic processes embroiled in everyone's life, Heir Tight seeks to ease further the life planning process by introducing supported hardware in the future. "We have positioned ourselves to be the leader of your life plans and communication," concludes founder Natalie Alexander. "Our future is tied to simplifying your life management systems."
