RelayVault
Monitoring live

If you stop checking in, the people you chose are told

RelayVault is a dead man’s switch. You confirm you are okay on a schedule you set. Miss enough of them and it escalates — first to you, then to the people you trust, and finally it delivers the messages you left them.

How it works

What happens if you miss a check-in

Nothing is delivered because you were late once. Escalation runs in five stages, and you can answer at any point to stop it. These are the default timings — every one of them is yours to change.

  1. Initial warningAt the deadline
    You are told, by email and optionally by text.
  2. Urgent notifications+48 hours
    A louder reminder, and a phone call if you have enabled one.
  3. Contacts alerted+72 hours
    Your Recipients are contacted. Any of them can confirm you are fine, which stops all of this.
  4. Prep for delivery+96 hours
    A final warning, while there is still time to answer.
  5. Message delivery+120 hours
    Your Messages are delivered to the people you chose.

Any Recipient you mark as trusted can confirm you are fine without an account, from the link they are sent. That pauses everything.

The app can notice you are alive

Most dead man’s switches are a timer you have to beat. Ours does not have to be. With the mobile app installed, RelayVault can take unlocking your phone, opening the app, or the step count it is already keeping as a sign you are fine — and count it as a check-in without asking you anything.

It is off until you turn it on, you choose which signals count, and every one that is used is shown to you by name. The point is not convenience. It is that the most likely way a switch like this fails is firing at someone who is perfectly fine and simply did not open their email.

What you are trusting us with