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A will is the document that explains who should carry out your wishes and who should receive the property, files, and digital assets you want to pass on.

In ALAO, your will lives alongside your contacts, documents, and connected storage so the people and assets in your plan stay organized in one place.

A will helps reduce confusion by making your wishes explicit before anyone has to make hard decisions for you. It gives your family, collaborators, and representatives a clearer plan to follow.

For creators, that matters even more because your legacy may include documents, cloud files, media libraries, and other digital assets that need direction, not guesswork.

An executor is the person responsible for carrying out the instructions in your will. They help manage the process, handle key paperwork, coordinate with the right people, and make sure your wishes are followed as your estate is handled.

In practice, that usually means choosing someone who is organized, trustworthy, and willing to take on the responsibility when the time comes.

ALAO helps you keep that information organized by tying your executor, beneficiary contacts, and supporting documents to the same planning workflow.

A beneficiary is the person or organization you name to receive something from your estate. If you are thinking about the person who receives something, beneficiary is usually the term you want rather than benefactor.

In ALAO, beneficiaries can also show up in your contacts and asset allocation workflows so the people in your will match the assets you want them to receive.

The executor manages the process. The beneficiary receives what you leave behind. One role carries out the plan, while the other benefits from the plan.

Sometimes the same person can serve in both roles, but ALAO keeps those responsibilities visible so you can think through them clearly as you build your plan.

ALAO requires the witness to be a separate, disinterested person as a conservative safeguard. Keeping the executor and witness roles separate helps reduce conflicts, avoids the appearance of a witness with a stake in the document, and creates a cleaner execution record.

Laws can vary by state, so this product rule is intentionally more cautious than the bare minimum in some jurisdictions. If you are relying on the document for formal estate planning, you should still confirm your state-specific requirements with a qualified attorney.

Add the people who matter to your plan, like executors, beneficiaries, and any trusted contacts you may need to reference while building documents or assigning assets.

Keeping them in Contacts makes it easier to reuse the same people across your will, document workflows, and storage allocations without re-entering their information every time.

Connecting storage helps you tie the files you actually care about to the estate plan you are creating. Instead of treating your digital work as an afterthought, you can review it where your planning is already happening.

That is especially helpful if your legacy includes cloud folders, uploads, and working files that should be considered when assigning assets to beneficiaries.

Once a storage connection is active, ALAO can pull those files into the Storage area so you can review them as assets inside the app.

From there, you can keep your plan organized, see where files live, and use the asset workflow to connect those files to the people in your estate plan.

ALAO supports direct uploads into ALAO Storage, and the Connected storage area is built to work with Google Drive.

You may also see Box and Dropbox in the interface as part of the broader storage roadmap, but your environment may not have every provider turned on at the same time.

Connecting storage is meant to help you organize and review your assets inside ALAO. It does not mean your files are automatically published or reassigned just because you connected an account.

You stay in control of what is connected, what is uploaded, and how those assets are represented in your plan.

Yes. ALAO's asset workflows let you assign percentages of an asset to different beneficiaries so you can reflect more nuanced plans than a simple one-person handoff.

The app also protects against over-allocation by keeping the total percentage for an asset at or below 100%.

Yes. The Documents area lets you upload files directly into ALAO so important planning materials are available inside the app.

Today the upload flow accepts PDF, DOC, and DOCX files up to 10 MB, which makes it useful for wills, supporting paperwork, and other core planning documents.

Your Documents page is the main place to review what you have created, uploaded, sent, or signed. It separates items by status so you can quickly find what is still waiting and what has been completed.

That gives you one place to manage the legal side of your plan while the Storage area helps you track the creative assets behind it.

That is one of the main reasons ALAO exists. Instead of keeping your will in one place, your files in another, and your people somewhere else, ALAO brings those parts of the process together.

The result is a planning workflow that better reflects how creators actually work: through documents, relationships, and living digital archives.