The CLEAR Kit

One day your family will have to find everything. Leave them a place to look.

Your estate documents say who gets what and who is in charge. They don’t say where the accounts are, who to call first, or which bills keep running. The CLEAR Kit does, section by section, in your handwriting or typed into the files.

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From $199 · Personalized, assembled, ships in under a week

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Why families buy one

The paperwork isn’t the hard part. Finding everything else is.

When someone dies, or can’t manage on their own, the person who steps in suddenly has five questions they should not have to answer from scratch. The CLEAR Kit answers them in advance.

Who do we call?

The attorney, the accountant, the doctors, the neighbor with the spare key.

Important Contacts · Medical Providers · Memberships & Affiliations

What is there?

Every account, policy, property, and debt, and the income that stops or keeps coming.

Financial Accounts · Insurance · Real Property · Debts · Business Interests

What did they want?

Medical wishes, final arrangements, who gets the ring, what happens to the dog.

Advance Directive · Final Resting Place · Legacy Messages · Heirlooms · Pets

How do we get in?

Phones, email, passwords, the safe deposit box, the storage unit, the house.

Account Access · Devices · Storage & Safe Deposit Boxes · the key organizer

What do we do now?

The order to work in, what needs attention in the first week, and what can wait.

Estate & End-of-Life Summary Workbook · Getting Started booklet · guidance in every section

A CLEAR Kit only helps if it’s filled in before it’s needed. That’s why every section tells you exactly what belongs in it, and why you can start with the 22 your family would need first.

How it works

Choose your kit

Essentials or Expanded, one adult or two. Answer two questions to help you decide.

We personalize and assemble it

Names on the covers, printed worksheets behind every section, everything in the case. It ships in under a week.

Open it and fill it in

Each tab says what belongs and why it matters. Fill it in by hand, or type into the fillable PDFs and print them. Replacement pages are included, so you can update a section whenever something changes.

Doing this for a parent

Most parents won’t fill it in alone. Sit down with it together.

Every tab in the CLEAR Kit is a short set of plain questions: who do we call, what is there, where is it, what did you want. You ask, they answer, you write it down. One section per visit is a normal Sunday afternoon, not a countdown.

How to do it with a parent

Created from experience

I created the CLEAR Kit from experience. Experts helped make it better.

As an attorney who has served as an executor, I learned something firsthand: a family can have all the right documents and still leave everyone guessing about what to do next. I built the kit to close that gap, then had subject matter experts review, challenge, and improve it.

Adam Zuckerman, JD/MBA

Founder, Buried in Work · Author of No Loose Ends

The book behind the kit

No Loose Ends

Foreword by the President of the National Funeral Directors Association. The order of the kit’s 47 sections comes out of this book.

Winner, 2026 NYC Big Book Award · Gold Medal, 2026 Living Now Book Awards

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What CLEAR Kit owners say

Collected against the CLEAR Kit rather than against a single version.

We’re blown away by your product - both practical and necessary!!

Lynn and David G.

This is exactly what we needed to get organized.

Toshal R.

If I could shout the benefits of this from some rooftop, I would.

Jackie G.

I can finally get rid of my yellow notepad.

Nancy R.

This is wonderful. You've really thought of everything.

Marshall M.

You really did think of everything.

Kandy H.

Very impressive estate planning books!

Barry K.

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Not ready for the full system?

Start smaller.

The Estate & End-of-Life Summary Workbook helps you organize the most important high-level information your loved ones may need in about an hour.

It’s useful on its own and included with every CLEAR Kit if you decide to go further later.

Start With the Workbook

Need help with estate administration?

Settling an estate is months of phone calls, paperwork and deadlines. You can hand that to people who do it every day and still stay the executor, in control of every decision. Estate administration is delivered by our partner Honorly.

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The Lighter Side

Estate planning is serious. Your mug doesn't have to be.

Shirts, mugs, candles and gifts for people who spend an unreasonable amount of time talking about wills, probate, funerals, caregiving, grief and death.

Some of it is for professionals. Some is for the executors and caregivers doing the work. Some is just for people with a questionable sense of humor about mortality.