KinNestThe people you name
A nominee is someone you choose to receive your record if something happens to you. Here is what naming someone means, for you and for them.
What a nominee is
Someone you trust to be handed your record if you are gone.
A nominee is a person you name to receive your KinNest record if you die or become unreachable. Your record is a map: what you own, where to find it, and your note about each thing. A nominee is who that map is for.
We recommend naming someone so your record has a recipient. You can skip this step and add a nominee later. But naming a person and telling them are two separate choices. You can name someone quietly and tell them later, or never.
You name people from the People screen in the app. Each nominee needs an email address. That email is how we reach them, and it is how they would sign in to read your record if that day ever comes.
A primary and a backup
You can name up to five primary nominees and five backups. A backup who has not been contacted stays in reserve until the backup stage is needed.
The person you name first
Your main nominee. If your record is ever handed over, it goes to your primary nominees. You can name more than one.
Held in reserve
A backup who has not been contacted stays in reserve. The backup stage begins after the primary response period if no primary has acted. 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.
Inviting a nominee
Telling a nominee is optional, and off by default. If you choose to invite them, here is what happens.
When you tick "invite now", we send one email to the address you gave. It tells them you named them in KinNest. It shows nothing of your record.
They sign in with the invited email and either accept or say no. If they decline, you are told why, so you always know where you stand. A person who declines is not contacted again.
When someone accepts, you get a notification. Now you know your record can reach a real person.
What a nominee can see
Accepting an invitation alone does not open your record.
- YESThat you named them.
- YESThe date you last checked in — the raw date, never a countdown.
- NOAnything you own, or where it is.
- NOYour notes, your letters, or your photos.
- NOAny way to open your record. The option to report is not even present before day 91.
Accepting an invitation does not open your record. You can choose to share it, or access can be granted when KinNest completes its handover checks and response period.
How a nominee reads your record
The handover happens on the web. A nominee does not need to install anything.
If your record is ever handed over, your nominee reads it in a browser at app.kinnest.in. They sign in with the same email you invited. They see your entries grouped the way you kept them, the photos and scans you attached, your letters, and the names of any children you recorded.
Even then, your own tap comes first. If a nominee reports that you are gone, your own check-in outranks that report at any moment, and seven more days of silence from you must pass before anything opens. The backup stage can bring in a reserve nominee if no primary has acted. It does not undo an already accepted backup relationship.
A nominee is not an heir
Naming a nominee does not decide who inherits anything. KinNest hands over the record of an asset — what it is and where to find it — never the asset itself, and never its ownership. Who inherits your property, your gold, or your accounts is settled by your family and by the law, through a will and the legal process. A nominee can find what you left behind. Whether they keep any of it is a separate question, settled by your will and the law.