KinNestReceiving a record
Someone has named you on KinNest. This page explains what that means, what you can see and when, and how to read their record if the day ever comes.
You have been named as a nominee
A nominee is a person the owner trusts to receive their record if something happens to them.
The record brings together the owner's entries, notes, supporting documents and any letter intended for you. It helps you find important information; it does not grant ownership of assets or connect you to financial accounts.
You are a nominee, not an heir. KinNest hands over the record of what someone owned and where it is kept. It does not decide who inherits. Who inherits is for your family and the law to settle.
Naming is quiet by default. The owner can choose to invite you now or leave contact until the handover process needs it. If you receive an invitation, sign in with that email address to accept or decline the role.
What you can see, and when
An invitation alone does not open the record. You can read it after the owner shares it with you or a rule-authorized handover grants access.
- YESThat the owner named you
- YESThe date they last checked in
- NOThe record itself
- NOTheir entries, notes, or photos
- NOWhat they own, or where it is kept
- YESTheir personal message to you
- YESWhat they own and where to find it
- YESThe photos and any scans they attached
- NOAny password or login
- NOMoney, or documents you could spend
Access follows the owner's sharing choice or the handover rules
After accepting, you can see that the owner named you and the date of their last Check in. Their record stays private until they share it with you or the handover rules grant access. We do not read the record either. It is encrypted in transit and at rest with AES-256, stored only in India, and protected by strict server-side access rules. Every entry carries a tamper-evident SHA-256 seal, so if the record is ever handed to you, you can trust it has not been altered.
If the owner cannot be reached
KinNest watches for one simple sign of life: the owner taps to check in. If they stay silent for a long time, a careful and slow process begins. Here is what it looks like from your side.
You are asked to check on them
Once the owner has been silent for their whole check-in window, KinNest asks the people they named to check on them. That is day 91 on the three-month default. You are told nothing about the record at this stage. You are simply asked whether they are alright.
“I'll ask them to check in”
If you say you will reach the owner, KinNest pauses for 7 days to give you time to call or visit. After those 7 days everyone is asked again, so one person's answer never stalls it, and any nominee can still report. If the owner is fine, one tap from them ends everything at once.
Seven more days
If a nominee reports that the owner is gone, the record does not open straight away. Seven more days of continued silence must pass first. At any moment in that week, the owner's own check-in outranks the report and stops everything.
A backup may be asked
A backup who has not been contacted stays in reserve until the backup stage is needed. Once a backup accepts, they are a current nominee and can receive a share. An ordinary edit or promotion preserves that relationship. A false-alarm return to standby ends the invitation and access for that episode.
Reporting that the owner is gone
If you have been asked to check on the owner and you have confirmed they have died or cannot be reached, you can report it. Reporting is not a claim on anything, and it asks nothing of you.
You will only see the choice to report once the owner has been silent long enough, at day 91. Before then it is not there at all.
You give your name as the person reporting. What guards against a mistaken or bad-faith report is not paperwork — it is the ninety days of silence first, the further seven days, and the owner's own check-in overriding it at any point.
After you report, seven more days of continued silence from the owner must go by. If they check in during that time, everything stops and nothing is handed over.
When the wait is over, you can read the record on the web. If someone else also reports, it changes nothing. The first report stands.
How you read the record on the web
When the record opens, you read it in a web browser. There is nothing to download, and no app to install.
Open it in any browser, on a phone or a computer. It works the same either way.
Use the exact email address the invitation was sent to. That address is the key to the record. It cannot be swapped for another.
The record never just appears on its own. You tap once to open it, and that also lets us record that it reached you.
You will see their message to you, what they own and where to find it, the photos and scans they attached, and their children if they recorded any.
You receive the record to read, not ownership of anything in it. What you inherit is for your family and the law to settle.