Heir Open-Test

Your heir opens a practice vault cold, unaided, offline — or you don’t pay.

AION’s free seal makes the vault. The Heir Open-Test is the proof. In a founder-guided session, we put the heir you named in front of a practice vault — a throwaway fake secret, never your real keys — and watch them recover it alone. $149, and not a cent until they actually open it. If they cannot, there is no charge. We carry that risk on purpose.

A plan never tested against a real human is an assumption.

$149— invoiced only after your heir opens it.

And we do not bill you for an assumption. You are not paying for the tool — the tool is free. You are paying for the proof that the person you named can actually operate the recovery without you.

The seal is free. The proof that your heir can open it is the $149 good. That line does not change anywhere on this page.
$149 is invoiced by handonly after a witnessed open succeeds — charged by TechBantu IT Solutions, LLC via Stripe, statement reads “SEALED AION.” There is no automatic charge, and nothing is collected on this page.
We test operability, not access: the drill proves your heir can operatethe recovery on a fake secret — not that they can reach your real Bitcoin, keys, or funds.
The cryptography is a pre-audit prototype; the formal third-party audit is still pending. That is exactly why the test uses a throwaway fake secret— nothing irreplaceable is ever placed in it.
A founder-guided beta — not custody, not a will, not legal, tax, or investment advice, and not a guaranteed legal inheritance.

Request a fit check Try the free seal

No payment is collected here. A real person reviews fit, then schedules and runs the session; you are invoiced only after a successful open. Never send a seed phrase, private key, shard, password, or plaintext through this or any channel.

How the Heir Open-Test works

One witnessed run. Cold, offline, unaided.

You seal a practice vault — free, and free forever
The cryptographic seal at /seal is the free good and always will be. For the test we use a throwaway fake secret — never your real seed phrase or key. You rehearse operating the recovery tool; no real secret is ever involved. The drill proves your heir can run the recovery, not that they can reach any asset. That distinction is the entire point.
AION never sees the inside
AION is a blind server. We never receive your plaintext, seed phrase, private keys, shards, or memory answers — not during the test, not ever. There is nothing to send us, and you should never try. The vault is built so that even AION, gone tomorrow, changes nothing about whether your heir can open it.
Your named heir runs the drill — cold
In a founder-guided session, we hand your heir exactly what a real heir would hold: the recovery folder and their share of the shard cards (4 of 7 — not all of them). The recovery device goes offline first; airplane mode on. We say one sentence, start a clock, and go silent. No “click there.” If they reach for a search engine instead of the offline folder, that is a finding, not a pass. Unaided is the only honest test.
They open it, or they don't
A pass means your heir opened the practice vault alone, offline, on the first sincere attempt, and read the recovered message back aloud. They also answer why the threshold works — why 4 cards, not 3. Our design target is a cold open in well under 20 minutes, but we record the real result every time; we have no observed averages to quote yet, and we will not invent them.
You're invoiced only on a proven open
$149 is invoiced by hand, and only after a witnessed heir-open succeeds. There is no automatic charge, and nothing is collected on the request page. No successful open, no charge. We would rather find the gap on a practice vault now — while you are alive to fix it — than have your family find it later, when you are not.

What is true here, said plainly

Honest about where we are. That honesty is the trust.

The /seal cryptography is an unaudited prototype. A formal third-party security audit is our launch gate, and it is still pending. We are early, and we will not pretend otherwise. This is exactly why the test uses a throwaway fake secret: you rehearse the recovery without ever placing an irreplaceable secret in unaudited code.

Every drill uses a fake secret, always. We prove your heir can operate the recovery tool — not that they can access your real Bitcoin, keys, or funds. Saying otherwise would be the over-promise we refuse to make.

AION is a blind server. It never receives your plaintext, seed phrase, private keys, shards, or memory answers — not during the test, not ever. Never send a secret to AION through any channel. There is nothing on our side that should ever hold it.

No custody. AION does not hold, host, or store your real secret, and cannot recover anything you lose. The free seal recovers offline with no dependency on AION — even if AION disappears tomorrow.

No legal inheritance guarantee, and no estate, legal, tax, or investment advice. AION is a complement to your attorney's legal instrument, never a replacement. The lawyer makes it lawful; AION rehearses whether your heir can actually open the thing.

We are honestly early — founder-run, with zero paid customers so far. We have no testimonials, no customer counts, and no usage metrics to show you, because inventing them would violate the one thing this product is built to protect: the truth.

A passing drill proves the heir can follow the instructions today. It does not prove the shards will survive 5–50 years, that the named heir is the legally correct inheritor, or anything about real-secret custody. Those are different problems, and we will tell you so.

What am I actually paying for?

A witnessed proof that the person you named can recover a practice vault without you, without help, and without the internet — demonstrated on a fake secret. The seal that makes the vault is free. The proof that your heir can open it is the paid good, invoiced only if the open succeeds.

What does “cold, unaided, offline, first try” mean?

Cold: your heir has never rehearsed it. Unaided: the operator stays silent and times the run — no coaching, not even “click there.” Offline: the recovery device is in airplane mode, because a genuine recovery, on the day it matters, cannot depend on AION's servers or the internet. First try: they open it on the first sincere attempt and read the recovered message back aloud.

Are you saying my heir will be able to access my crypto?

No, and we will never say that. The drill proves your heir can operate the recovery tool on a throwaway fake secret. Whether they can reach real funds depends on what you actually sealed, on key survivability over years, and on your legal instruments — none of which a practice drill can prove. We test operability, not access. Claiming more would be dishonest.

Do I send you my seed phrase or keys to set this up?

Never. AION is a blind server: it never receives your plaintext, seed phrase, private keys, shards, or memory answers — not for the test, not ever. If anyone or anything ever asks you to send a secret to AION, that is the warning sign, not the instruction.

You said the cryptography is unaudited. Why should I trust this?

Because we told you it's unaudited instead of hiding it. The /seal prototype has not yet passed a formal third-party security audit — that audit is our launch gate. That is precisely why the test runs on a fake secret you can afford to lose: you get to watch the recovery actually work, with no irreplaceable secret at stake. Honesty about where we are is the trust, not a substitute for it.

Does this replace my will or my estate attorney?

No. AION is a complement to your attorney's legal instrument, never a replacement. The lawyer makes inheritance lawful and enforceable. AION rehearses the practical gap your legal plan usually skips: can the human you named actually open the recovery when the one person who understood it is gone?

What happens if my heir can't open it?

You are not charged, and you've learned the most valuable thing possible while you can still act on it: the recovery plan has a gap. We record exactly where they got stuck — the confusing wording, the missed step — so it can be fixed. A recorded failure now is worth far more than a silent one later.

Who is this for?

People with self-custody crypto whose families would otherwise inherit a lock with no key — and the estate attorneys and fee-only advisors who serve them. If you've drafted a digital-asset clause, or you have clients holding their own keys, this de-risks the “what happens to the crypto when they're gone” gap, billed only on a proven open.

Request a fit check — no payment, no secrets

Talk to a person first.

No payment is collected here. A real person reviews whether the test makes sense for your situation: what you’d seal, who your heir is, and what failure you fear most. The fit check is about intent, not secrets.

Use the private-session request path to start. Never send a seed phrase, private key, shard, password, or plaintext through that channel or any other — AION should never receive it.

The free seal stays free, and recovers offline with no dependency on AION. We’re honestly early: an unaudited prototype, founder-run, with zero paid customers yet and no invented metrics. The fake-secret drill is exactly why that’s safe to test.