You're right, sorry I should have painted the picture in a better way because I just basically shifted the middleman dependency compared to 1password or somethi

You're right, sorry I should have painted the picture in a better way because I just basically shifted the middleman dependency compared to 1password or something. With a company ran vault, they can mess up by failing to exist, not being honest, and they have to make the correct decision when someone dies. With Seal, no single person makes the decision when the person is gone/inactive. There's no company to decrypt anything, which is what I was trying to paint the picture of with "no company in the middle", but yeah you have to also make sure the software exists so they can check in. The envelopes also will open when the user can no longer check in because the countdown will end and the family can use the keys to decrypt without a backend needed.