Why Heirlo exists
It started with my grandmother.
I was her eldest grandchild. Her favorite, the one she shared the most with. One day she asked me to help her catalogue her things. She knew exactly who should have what. My mother would get her wedding sari, and I would get the gold bangles my grandfather chose for her. But more than the objects, she wanted to leave the stories behind them.
So we made a spreadsheet. I photographed each piece, assigned it to someone, and wrote down the memory as she dictated it to me. And I thought, there has to be a better way to do this. A way to keep it organized, to give specific things to specific people, and to let them confirm they'd received them.
I started asking around. Some families went room to room with sticky notes. Some had a rough draft tucked in a drawer. Others did nothing at all, and left their families to sort it out in conflict and confusion.
That's when Heirlo was born.
Because we're all already doing some version of this. "This is yours one day." "Make sure your brother gets it." We just never write it down. Nothing is documented. Nothing is acknowledged. Nothing is kept.
Heirlo is that missing layer. A way to leave a curated, intentional record of what mattered and the stories behind it, in your own words, in the way you want to be remembered. No lawyers, no cost, no weight of "estate planning."
There's no rush. Start with one object or a hundred. Take your time, do what feels right. What you're really leaving behind is peace of mind.
