Why Exit State

I wanted to write it
myself.

Every online will I tried asked me four or five questions and then said someone would call. I did not want a call. I knew what I wanted to happen; I wanted to write it down, read it, and be finished.

What I got instead was a quote, a callback window, and the strong impression that the will was the way in and something more expensive was the point. The actual document — the thing I came for — was always one conversation away.

So I built the one I wanted. You do the whole thing yourself, in your own time, and nobody rings you.

Then I kept going, because the other half of this was interesting: a will is treated as a chore you do once and dread, and I wanted to find out how much of that is the paperwork and how much is just bad design. Most of it, it turns out, is bad design.

What that turned into

Small things, mostly. They add up to not dreading it.

The whole thing is free until it is a will

Every question, every section, saved as you go. You pay £79 when you want the document you print and sign — once, and edits are free after that for as long as you are here.

It tells the people you have named

Adding someone to a will and never mentioning it is the normal way this goes wrong. One press sends them a short, plain email saying they are in it and who to contact. You choose who, and when.

A list that remembers where you got to

Five sections make a will. The checklist shows which are done, which is next, and what each one already says — so coming back after three months takes a minute, not an evening.

The parts a will has no room for, included

Who takes the dog. What you want if machines are the only thing keeping you here. Organ donation. The things you never quite said. None of them cost extra and none of them ever have.

Made to be come back to

A will is not a form you file once. Rewrite it when someone is born, someone leaves, or the flat sells, and download it again the same day.

Being straight about it

What this is not.

  • Not a solicitor, and not legal advice. Complicated estates — a business, a trust, property abroad, a family likely to argue — should have one.
  • Not a subscription. One payment, no renewal, no reminders to pay again.
  • Not a lead form. Nobody rings you. There is no sales team to ring you.
  • Not valid until you sign it. A will becomes a will when you sign it in front of two witnesses, and the pack tells you exactly how.

Write the whole thing before you pay anything.

£79 once, when you want the document. No account fee, no renewal, no call.