Built to make life’s important information easier to understand and use.

I named HearthBook after a simple idea. The hearth has always been the center of a home and around it, the shelves: the records, the photographs, the papers, the things we keep close. Those shelves change over time. Things get added, updated, moved, and eventually handed to someone else.

I built HearthBook because I watched how hard that "handed to someone else" part actually is.

I've spent years working in finance and as a fiduciary, and before that as an Army officer. In all of it, the same scene kept repeating: someone, at the worst possible moment, trying to piece together another person's life from a drawer of statements, a login nobody knows, and a plan that lived only in one person's head. Sometimes it was a spouse or a child. Just as often it was a close friend, a neighbor, an attorney, whoever happened to be trusted, and happened to be there. Then it happened close to home and I found that even with my background, we were guessing. The information existed. It just wasn't anywhere the person who needed it could find it.

So I built the shelf I wished we'd had: one connected place for the people, information, documents, and plans that matter to you. Organized so you can use it now, and so whoever you choose can find it when it counts. You decide who that is. One person or ten. Family, or not.

HearthBook is a small company, and I'd rather it stay honest than get big. No ads, no selling your information, and a price anyone can justify. Beyond that, my only promise is that every year the shelf gets a little more useful. I'm still adding to mine, too.