The Silent Countdown

When you die, your bank freezes your accounts. Credit cards stop working. Direct debits fail.

AWS doesn't know you're dead. It knows your bill wasn't paid. After 30 days of non-payment, services are suspended. After 90 days, data is deleted.

Your entire SaaS product — customer data, source code deployments, databases — lives on infrastructure paid for by a dead person's credit card.

This isn't a server crash. This isn't a hack. This is a routine billing failure that erases your company.

The Cascade of Cloud Dependency

It's not just AWS. Map your dependency chain:

• Domain registrar (GoDaddy, Cloudflare) — domain expires, website goes offline • Email service (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365) — team loses email access • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI) — deploys stop • Monitoring (Datadog, PagerDuty) — alerts stop, nobody knows things are breaking • Payment processing (Stripe) — API keys rotate, payments fail

Every month a founder dies, their SaaS has a ticking clock. Most teams don't realize until it's too late — because the person who managed all this infrastructure is the person who's gone.

The CTO Gets Root Before Amazon Pulls the Plug

ZeroLatch solves this with a single vault:

  1. Store your AWS root credentials, billing console access, and IAM admin keys
  2. Store your domain registrar, email admin, and DNS credentials
  3. Set recipient: your CTO, co-founder, or VP of Engineering
  4. Set interval: 14 days

If you don't check in, your CTO receives everything needed to: • Transfer billing to a company card • Maintain infrastructure • Keep the product alive

The alternative is watching helplessly as Amazon's billing system methodically destroys what you spent years building.