No. There is no dead-man’s switch, no inactivity timer, no scheduled release. NestVault does not automatically unlock or hand over your vault to anyone, under any circumstances. A verified beneficiary release system is in development, but it is not available today, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
Any system where NestVault could release your decrypted data on a trigger would require NestVault to be able to decrypt your data. We can’t — that’s the zero-knowledge design you chose us for. The privacy guarantee and the “company unlocks it for my family” convenience are mutually exclusive, and we picked privacy. Whatever release system we eventually ship has to work within that constraint, which is why it’s taking design time rather than shipping as a checkbox.
The manual path: your beneficiary files a claim with a death certificate and ID, we verify and approve it by hand, and they take over the vault using your vault password from your estate documents. It requires fifteen minutes of preparation from you now — naming them, storing the key with your will, and one conversation.
Being direct: if an automatic, no-preparation release is a hard requirement for you today, NestVault doesn’t offer it yet. What we offer is a claim process that works — provided you’ve done the fifteen minutes.