Harbor turns confusing forms and deadlines into a calm, guided checklist made for real families.
No subscriptions. No upsells. Just step-by-step guidance.
Register the death and order certified copies
Contact the county vital records office
Notify Social Security
Report the death to claim survivor benefits
Contact life insurance provider
File a claim for any policies
Close or transfer bank accounts
Contact each financial institution
Update utilities and subscriptions
Cancel or transfer services
Review employer benefits and pensions
Contact HR for final pay and benefits
We turn overwhelming paperwork into a clear, step-by-step process. No jargon, no confusion.
We'll ask about your loved one, their accounts, and your relationship. It's okay if you're not sure about everything.
Harbor creates a clear, prioritized list tailored to your situation. We also generate ready-to-use letters for banks, agencies, and more.
Work through your checklist at your own pace. Harbor saves your progress automatically, so you can take breaks when you need them.
A clear, prioritized checklist tailored to your situation. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.
Register the death and order certified copies
Contact the county vital records office
Notify Social Security Administration
Report the death to claim survivor benefits
Contact life insurance provider
File a claim for any policies
Close or transfer bank accounts
Contact each financial institution
Review employer benefits and pensions
Contact HR for final pay and benefits
Update utilities and subscriptions
Cancel or transfer services
Example checklist only. Harbor adjusts tasks based on your answers.
Harbor is 100% free. We're building advanced features to help even more, but everything essential is available now.
Everything you need to handle post-death paperwork, available right now.
Advanced support we're building to make this process even easier.
Harbor+ will always be free. We're building these features because they help families, not to charge for them.
We don't track you for advertising. Your information stays private.
Your account, your data. Delete everything with one click if you want.
My dad died during my senior year of high school, at a time when I was supposed to be worrying about college applications and finishing calc homework. Instead, I was waking up to a quieter house, watching my mom sit at the dining table with a stack of papers that somehow never got smaller. Every envelope seemed to hold another decision: cancel this, verify that, notify someone else. Agencies, banks, insurance, benefits—rules no one warns you about until you're already hurting.
Grief is strange. It steals your energy, your focus, your sense of time… and somehow still asks you to stay organized. I remember standing behind my mom while she was on hold with yet another office, listening to that looping music while she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. She wasn't just sad; she was tired in a way I didn't know adults could be.
That feeling—watching someone you love try to be strong when they're barely holding it together—never really leaves your body.
I'm Ethan. I'm a university student now, but Harbor Aftercare didn't come from a class or a startup idea. It came from that table, from those afternoons, from wishing my mom had something—anything—that could've put a little structure back into her life when everything else had fallen apart.
I didn't build Harbor to make money. I'm not selling anything. There's no subscription, no paywall waiting at the end. Harbor is free because grief already costs enough. It's free because my mom deserved something gentle and clear, and so do you.
Harbor Aftercare is my attempt to hand someone else the thing I wish we had: a calm list when your mind is foggy, a sense of what's urgent and what can wait, a reminder that you're not failing just because you're overwhelmed.
If you've found your way here, I'm sorry for whatever brought you. I mean that honestly. I hope Harbor helps—maybe not in some big dramatic way, but in the quiet, steady way that gets you through one more task, one more day.
And if it does help, even a little, then that's enough for me.
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