Individual context
Structured Legacy Control begins with understanding the individual context — mapping the relevant legal parameters and asking which default outcome would apply if nothing were arranged.
“This affects me.”
Anyone who wants to shape, administer, and preserve their legacy needs…
Diagram: A golden numeral one in the centre, connected by bent lines to four core tasks: top left — apply the six foundational principles of succession law to your personal life context; bottom left — address roughly 4.8% in value loss; top right — consolidate 101 distinct system access points; bottom right — connect 254 access elements.
Apply the six foundational principles of succession law to your personal life context
Consolidate 101 distinct system access points
Address ~4.8% in value loss
Connect 254 access elements
If you also care about efficiency, you look for one system that covers every complexity holistically.
The methodology behind that system is called:
Structured Legacy Control.
The six building blocks of Structured Legacy Control:
Structured overall picture
All material parts of the estate are captured and structured — from financial assets and liabilities to personal and emotional value — and brought together in one clear overall picture.
“Only I can assemble the full picture.”
Contextual & financial valuation
That foundation is complemented by financial and contextual valuation — enabling informed decisions aligned with legal and practical realities.
“The impact is substantial.”
Optimised distribution
On that basis, the future distribution of the estate is designed — taking the statutory baseline and the available planning levers into account.
“Even after death, there are rules — but they still allow design choices.”
Scenario planning
Next, scenarios are defined that reflect desired outcomes and account for critical dependencies — for example, the loss of a central beneficiary.
“This cannot be meaningfully captured on paper alone.”
Information distribution
Finally, access is structured, secured, and tied to conditions — so the right information reaches the right people at the right time without manual intervention.
“My estate is under control.”
There are approaches that cover individual elements of Structured Legacy Control — but central pieces are missing,
exist only in isolation, or rely on manual effort.
Hardly any system treats the estate case as its primary focus.
Overview of existing approaches:
Individual context
Not available
There are currently almost no approaches that account for individual life circumstances at all. And when they do, they rarely go beyond simple default assumptions. Whether someone has children, is married, or under which matrimonial property regime they live makes a substantial difference to every further estate planning decision.
Structured overall picture
Fragmented
Estate components are recorded across separate systems. As a result, the big-picture overview is missing — even though that overview is required to define inheritance quotas sensibly and in line with statutory requirements.
Contextual & financial valuation
Not available
Without individual context and without a structured overall view, contextual and financial valuation is barely possible.
Optimised distribution
Fragmented / analogue
There are many strong advisory services, and it is sensible to approach estate planning together with a professional. However, these services are often time-consuming and costly — and they can only work with the information available. Many obvious optimisation opportunities can already be derived from individual life context, providing an ideal basis for a well-founded advisory conversation.
Scenario planning
Not available
Because individual context is usually not captured, there are virtually no approaches that allow simulation of different scenarios. Dependencies between people and events are not considered systematically. In cases where central beneficiaries fail at the same time — for example, partners from the same household due to a shared event — complexity rises sharply and is hard to model without scenario analysis.
Information distribution
Fragmented / analogue
Existing digital solutions increasingly make it possible to represent estate cases and information handover. However, they are usually limited to their own system and are not interconnected. Analogue information is also often left out, so no end-to-end, complete information distribution is achieved.
That is why we developed a system that, for the first time, unites every element of Structured Legacy Control in
one integrated solution — and sets a new standard.
DigitalerNachlass.app is planned to launch in July 2026.