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BillWill Reducing the burden left behind.

24/05/2026

Every sign up is another 200-300 hours of pain saved. It's an odd way to measure success - because the people that will benefit may never know what they have been spared. But stories like this one show exactly why we do what we do. My hope is that we can help people BEFORE their lived experience makes it too late, and all too real.

03/05/2026

The will is sorted. The POA is filed. The estate plan is in place.
Then someone dies or loses capacity, and the family discovers the documents don't tell them what they actually need to know in the first few weeks.

How do we get into the bank accounts? Which ones are joint, and which ones just look joint? What's still pulling out by direct debit? Is the mortgage payment going to clear on Friday? What subscriptions are charging a card no one can find?

This is where families get stuck. It's also where executors lose months.

For financial advisers and estate lawyers, it's the gap that sits just outside the documents you've prepared. Your client's plan is sound. The ex*****on of it, in the hands of a grieving family, is where things fall apart.

BillWill connects via open banking and surfaces all of this now, while your client is still here to resolve it. Joint signatories, account structures, recurring obligations. The detail that determines whether the first month after a loss is manageable or chaotic.

A practical addition to the conversation you're already having, and a real difference to the family on the other side of it.

24/04/2026

With five advisory firms joining this week, this clip neatly explains the value our estate planning partners get out of the platform- a meaningful way to add value, and ensure that the will stays up to date. Thanks for the great chat

Thanks to Patrick Gardner and Ensombl for hosting us on the AdviceTech podcast this week. Our mission is to make the day...
16/04/2026

Thanks to Patrick Gardner and Ensombl for hosting us on the AdviceTech podcast this week. Our mission is to make the days and weeks after death or incapacity easier for families, and Financial Advisers can raise these planning conversations and make it easy for their clients, all while building relationships with the next generation of clients, and the emerging Gen X retiree.... listen further here: https://lnkd.in/gWc6_f8d

700,000 Gen X retirements by 2030. We modelled it ourselves because the number kept raising eyebrows in meetings and I w...
13/04/2026

700,000 Gen X retirements by 2030. We modelled it ourselves because the number kept raising eyebrows in meetings and I wanted to show it, not just say it.

Then I put it next to Bernard Salt's boomer decline data. Same shape. Same timeline. And something clicked.

The generation inheriting the great wealth transfer is the same generation whose financial life is scattered across dozens of digital platforms and accounts. Undocumented. Invisible to their families. And largely unknown to their adviser. Research puts the rate of beneficiaries replacing the family adviser at death at 60 to 80 percent.

Two waves. One generation at the centre of both. And 2026 is year one.
This week we expect to welcome our 60th advisory firm to BillWill since December. The practices joining now are building relationships with the next generation while their competitors are still thinking about it. Two or three years of established trust before the wealth starts moving in volume.

BillWill gives you a structured way to act on both waves: help Gen X clients document what they own, where it lives, and who needs to know, and give yourself a genuine reason to meet the family before the transfer happens.

Under your brand. A client set up in minutes.

If you want to be part of what's building, drop me a message.

The will says "I leave my digital assets to my spouse."Great. But does anyone actually know what those assets are?Lost c...
31/03/2026

The will says "I leave my digital assets to my spouse."
Great. But does anyone actually know what those assets are?

Lost crypto keys are becoming a serious risk in intergenerational wealth transfer (see the AFR piece below).

And it's not just crypto. Exchange accounts, online subscriptions, digital records, wallets, logins, platform holdings.

Meanwhile, an ACM study found that older adults have strong preferences about what happens to their digital lives after death, but no structured way to provide that clarity.

A will captures intent. It doesn't capture detailed, dynamic, digital information.

You can draft the most airtight will in the country, and the executor can still be left with no idea what exists, where it's held, or how to access it. Families end up spending 200 to 300 hours piecing things together under enormous pressure.
We've built a way to give families complete clarity about what exists, where to find it, and who to contact, without compromising a single password, key, or credential.

20 modules of critical life information. All secure. All accessible to the right people at the right time.

Lawyers draft the intent. And now, together, we're solving the information problem.

Maybe that's why over 50 advisory firms have jumped on board our Adviser Portal since we launched it in December.

If you're a lawyer or financial adviser and you'd like to see how, DM me or check the link in comments.

29/03/2026

What an incredible two days at Disrupting Traditions 2026. The energy, the conversations, and the moment a lawyer walked up to our stand and said: "I finally get what you do." That's why we show up. Thanks to the FLENA for putting on an amazing event.

One of the early decisions we made at BillWill was that the platform shouldn’t just help families organise life admin, i...
09/03/2026

One of the early decisions we made at BillWill was that the platform shouldn’t just help families organise life admin, it should also protect the people using it. That’s why we were one of the first fintech platforms to include terms that explicitly prohibit financial abuse.

It’s a straightforward (even small) design choice, but one with big ramifications.

Colin Jowell will be speaking at the Safety by Design Conference about how platforms like ours (and yours) can reduce risk and give people greater agency over their lives. If you’d like to come along, you can see the details here: https://go.the-hatchery.co/speaker8704

Colin Jowell is featured in The Brief (February issue) with a piece on the human side of law, and what behavioural scien...
03/03/2026

Colin Jowell is featured in The Brief (February issue) with a piece on the human side of law, and what behavioural science can teach lawyers when clients are making decisions under stress, grief, fear, and bias.

A few takeaways that will feel very familiar in family and estates:
✅ Why clients get overwhelmed and default to short-term relief (even when it creates long-term pain)
✅ The “decision poisons” that show up again and again, including present bias and inattention to consequences
✅ A practical lens for influencing action, EAST: Easy, Attractive, Social, Timely
✅ And how “sludge” (admin burden) can sabotage good intentions, especially after death, where so much of what probate requires is not in the will (enter BillWill!)

Read the full issue here (article is pages 12–15):
https://familylawedu.com.au/the-brief-february-issue/

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