We verify. We relay.They decide.

Cedent is authority-verification and relay infrastructure for estate asset transfers. A lawyer uploads a death certificate and grant of probate once. Cedent verifies them, assembles a structured evidence packet, and relays it to every institution holding an asset — each institution makes its own release decision, under its own compliance policy.

The problem

The same documents, verified fifteen times over.

Assets fragment across banks, neobanks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and pension providers — often across several jurisdictions at once. When an account holder is deceased, the estate’s solicitor must evidence the death, and their own authority to act, to every one of those institutions individually.

The same death certificate and grant of probate are re-verified a dozen times over. Each institution runs its own manual review of the deceased estate. Months of correspondence follow — and some assets are never found at all, simply because no one knew they existed.

Wealth is digitising and crossing borders faster than estate administration is keeping up. The gap between modern financial infrastructure and document-driven, institution-by-institution probate keeps widening — and the cost lands on legal professionals and institutions alike.

The solution

One verification. Every institution.

Cedent sits upstream of the institutions, not between them and the money. The evidence is verified once, standardised, and relayed to everyone who needs it — so each institution starts from a clean, structured packet instead of a fresh pile of paperwork. Everything that follows stays exactly where it already sits.

Cedent handles

  • Verifies document structure and authenticity signals
  • Cross-checks registries where they are available
  • Standardises evidence into one machine-readable packet
  • Relays it to every institution at once, and tracks each reply

The institution keeps

  • The release decision, made under its own compliance framework
  • Its own review process, applied exactly as it is today
  • Its own rails — assets move the way they already move

How it works

Verified once, upstream. Relayed everywhere at once.

Five steps from a signed grant of probate to a tracked release decision at every institution holding an asset.

  1. 1

    Open a case

    A lawyer opens an estate case and uploads the death certificate and grant of probate. Once.

  2. 2

    Verify

    Cedent checks document structure and authenticity signals, and cross-checks registries where they are available.

  3. 3

    Confirm

    AI reads and structures each document; a qualified reviewer confirms every extraction is accurate before it enters an evidence packet.

  4. 4

    Relay

    Cedent assembles a standardised, machine-readable evidence packet and relays it to every institution holding an asset, simultaneously.

  5. 5

    Track

    Each institution reviews under its own compliance policy and sets its own status. The lawyer follows every institution from one dashboard.

Follow one estate, end to end.

The same five steps, running. Click through the case — or try skipping the confirmation step and see what happens.

CED-2026-00147
Demo — synthetic data

Open a new case

The lawyer enters the estate once. Nothing is sent anywhere yet.

Decedent
Margaret Eleanor Whitfield
Date of death
14 March 2026
Jurisdiction
England & Wales
Executor
Daniel R. Whitfield

Known accounts — entered by the solicitor

  • Northbridge CustodyEntered by solicitor
  • Aldergate Digital BankEntered by solicitor
  • Kestrel Wealth ManagementEntered by solicitor
  • Halden & Co. Private BankEntered by solicitor

Cedent does not search for accounts at this stage. Others may surface later from registered pointers or an authority-gated inquiry — but only after death and authority are verified.

Nothing is verified yet. This is intake only — the case exists, but no document has been checked and no institution has been contacted.

Beyond

Probate is where this starts.

Estate administration is the first trigger, not the last. The same verify-and-relay engine applies wherever one party can no longer act and another holds legally recognised authority that institutions must check — the documents change, the mechanism does not.

Powers of attorney

Authority granted while the holder is alive but unable to act.

Guardianships & conservatorships

Court-appointed authority over another person's affairs.

Corporate liquidations

Administrators and trustees acting for a dissolved entity.

If you work in probate, private-client law, or institutional compliance, we’d like to hear from you.

Get in touchhello@cedent.tech