Example Scenarios
How organisations of all sizes — from sole practitioners to government agencies — would use INHERIT to solve real estate data problems across 21 jurisdictions.
JurisdictionEngland & Wales 17United States 3Singapore 5Scotland 3Japan 3India 3Ireland 2Hong Kong 3EU Succession 3Switzerland 3UAE 2Canada 2Brazil 1Israel 1PRC China 1
SectorLaw firms 8Banking 2Insurance 2Government 5Legal tech 1Wealth advisory 3Auction & valuation 9Faith 4Funeral 2Academic 1
Estate typeTestate 23Intestate 8Dual System 8Cross Border 9
24 hours
Funeral wishes delivered before burial, not after
Funeral Services
Al-Amanah Burial Services
Muslim funeral provider receiving funeral wishes via INHERIT
“We had a family last month who only discovered their father wanted burial at City of London Cemetery — after we'd already completed the burial at Manor Park. That should never happen.”
65%
Of disputes resolved without court referral
Legal
Al-Mizan Mediation Centre
Family mediation service using visibility controls to manage estate disclosure across cultures
“Every beneficiary wants to know exactly what they're getting. No beneficiary wants anyone else to know what they're getting. The mediator's job is to make both possible simultaneously.”
4,000 hours
Annual claims handler hours saved
Insurance
Albion Life Claims Team
Mid-size life insurer building an INHERIT ingestion pipeline
“We spend four hours per claim just extracting data from paper forms. An INHERIT document gives us everything we need in the first API call.”
600 valuations · 0 re-keying
Structured valuations returned directly to solicitors
Valuation
Ashworth & Hale Jewellers
Family-run jewellery valuation business providing probate valuations for solicitors across the Midlands
“We spend our days valuing rings and necklaces — we shouldn't also be in the business of generating PDFs that someone else has to retype. Structured data just makes sense.”
14 months → 9 months
Average dual-jurisdiction estate completion time
Legal Cross Border
Brennan & Costa
Boutique cross-border law firm handling estates where Irish retirees own property in Portugal
“Our Dublin team and our Lisbon correspondent used to spend weeks just getting onto the same page. Now we start on the same page.”
R$1.2M
Average estate value processed per year
Legal
Casa Herança, São Paulo
Brazilian succession advisory helping cross-border families navigate meação, legítima, and cartório attestation
“Brazilian forced heirship reserves 50% for compulsory heirs. A British expat left everything to charity. The charity got 50%. The children got the other 50% whether he liked it or not.”
€2.1M
Additional estate value identified annually through structured cellar inventories
Specialist Dealer
Château Dernière Goutte
Fine wine merchant managing estate cellar valuations across the EU
“The family asked us to value 'a few bottles in the cellar.' It was 1,200 bottles. The cellar was worth more than the house above it.”
€4.2M
Value of single Stradivarius identified in a 200-instrument collection
Specialist Dealer
Crescendo Fine Instruments
Vintage instrument dealer handling succession of high-value musical collections
“One Stradivarius in a collection of 200 instruments. Worth more than the other 199 combined. Identifying it early is the difference between a probate valuation and a security operation.”
8 → 2 hours
Bereavement team reconciliation time per case
Islamic Banking
Crescent Bank UK
Sharia-compliant estate administration under dual legal systems
“Our customers expect their estates to honour both English law and Islamic inheritance rules. That used to mean two separate processes. Now it is one document.”
16 → 8 weeks
Average time to grant of probate
Government
Digital Courts Service
One submission populates both probate and HMRC workflows
“Eighteen per cent of applications were being returned for corrections. Schema validation catches those errors before they ever reach us.”
11 years
Age of the oldest active estate in the backlog
Government
District Court Succession Cell, Mumbai
Court administration team tracking estate proceedings across six parallel legal systems
“Estate reference SC/2015/04471 has been 'in administration' for eleven years. It has outlasted three case officers, two IT systems, and the building it was originally filed in.”
14 months → 6 months
Cross-border estate settlement time
Wealth Advisory
Dragon Gate Trust, Shanghai
Cross-border wealth advisory managing PRC-Hong Kong-Singapore estate transitions
“The estate had property in Shanghai, a hukou in Guangzhou, and a notarised will in Hong Kong. Three legal systems, two succession laws, and one very long queue at the notary.”
24 hours
Time-critical funeral wish delivery
Faith
East London Islamic Centre
Imam-led faraid guidance and funeral wish delivery
“The family shouldn't have to guess what their father wanted. If it's written down, we should see it before the janazah — not three weeks after.”
£85,000 recovered annually
From pre-paid plan leakage eliminated by structured wish delivery
Funeral Services
Evergreen Funeral Care
Regional funeral provider receiving pre-planned funeral wishes from estate planning platforms and solicitors
“In 30% of cases where the deceased had documented funeral wishes, those wishes weren't followed — simply because the family didn't know they existed. That's a failure we can fix.”
80%
Valuable book collections sold below market value
Specialist Dealer
Folio & Spine Rare Books
Antiquarian book dealer receiving catalogued collections from estates
“A first edition Dickens in fine binding is worth £8,000. A house clearance firm offers the family £200 for the lot because they see 'old books.' We never even hear about it until the books are gone.”
42 → 18 days
Average death claim processing time
Insurance
Fortis Insurance Group
Life insurance death claims with estate context across 40 jurisdictions
“We were paying £14 million a year in fraudulent claims because we couldn't verify family relationships at speed. Structured kinship data changed that.”
CHF 680,000
Average clawback value identified per disputed estate
Legal
Gessner Erbrecht, Zürich
Swiss succession firm handling lifetime gift clawback and forced heirship recalculation
“The family gifted everything to the children over twenty years. Then the father died and the second wife discovered Swiss law lets her claw half of it back. The children's generosity was rather less voluntary than they had assumed.”
months
Time saved navigating cross-border confusion
Faith
Gujarat Hindu Mandir Leicester
HUF navigation and ancestral property guidance
“The family comes to us because we speak Gujarati and understand the tradition. But without structured data, all I can say is 'go see a solicitor' — and they've already been told the solicitor doesn't understand HUF.”
300–600 hours
Annual solicitor re-keying hours eliminated
Valuation
Harcourt Fine Art Valuers
Independent probate art valuer returning structured valuations
“We spend the same time valuing the art — that doesn't change. What changes is that the solicitor never has to re-type a single figure from our report.”
5 → 2 days
Case transfer time between offices
Legal
Harrison Marsh LLP
Eliminating re-keying across 5,000 probate cases a year
“We used to lose two paralegal days every time a file moved between offices. Now it arrives validated, reconciled, and ready to work.”
CHF 1M additional value realised
Premium from structured provenance chains across 30–40 collections per year
Specialist Dealer
Kessler Uhren GmbH
Specialist pre-owned watch dealer receiving catalogued collections from deceased collectors' families
“A watch with a paper certificate is worth one price. A watch with a structured provenance chain — every owner, every service, every valuation — is worth 10–15% more. The market rewards data.”
4 hours
Consent verification time reduced from days to hours
Healthcare
Magen Chaim Organ Trust
Coordinating time-critical organ donation consent from structured estate data
“Organ donation consent is time-critical — hours, not weeks. But the document recording it is a will, and wills are read after funerals, not before.”
100%
Of care instructions delivered before the cat arrives
Pet Services
Mrs Pemberton's Superior Cat Hotel
Luxury cat boarding facility receiving structured care plans from deceased owners' estates
“Mr Whiskers has a five-page care plan, a named veterinarian, a monthly grooming budget, and a nominated successor. He is better prepared for my death than my children are.”
80-100 hours saved
Annual time saved on prior rights calculations
Legal
Munro & Co
Scots law intestate estates and Confirmation for a sole practitioner
“I was spending two hours per estate looking up prior rights thresholds in paper tables. INHERIT applies the correct figures for the date of death automatically.”
3-4 months → 2-3 weeks
Koseki compilation time
Manufacturing
Nakamura Industrial Holdings
Cross-border family succession across six countries
“Six law firms in six countries, each building their own picture of the estate. INHERIT gave us one document everyone could work from.”
21 → 7 days
Average death benefit processing time
Government
National Provident Authority
Pension death benefit distribution for 4 million members
“For Muslim members, the manual Syariah Court liaison was adding six weeks to every case. Automated faraid routing eliminated that bottleneck.”
3.5 hours saved per will
Faraid calculation time reduced from 4 hours to 30 minutes
Islamic Will Writing
Noor Wills & Guidance
Specialist Islamic will-writing service bridging faraid and English law for Muslim families
“Families trust us to get the faraid right. With INHERIT, the solicitor can verify our calculations before the will is signed — not after death, when it's too late to fix.”
50%
Reduction in dayan review time per endorsement
Faith
North London Beth Din
Shtar chov validation for halachic wills
“The shtar chov mechanism is delicate — one error in the kinship tree and the entire halachic will collapses. Structured data means I can see the logic, not just read a story.”
48 hours
Time to notify Chief Firearms Officer with structured inventory
Specialist Dealer
Northern Arms & Outfitters
Registered firearms dealer managing succession of deceased collectors' holdings
“Granddad's will said 'my sporting equipment to my eldest son.' We found seventeen shotguns, a rifle, and an ammunition locker. That's not a bequest — that's a licensing event.”
25% higher client retention
From integrated financial and estate planning advice
Financial Advice
Oakwood Financial Planning
Independent financial adviser bridging the gap between financial plans and estate plans
“Every client we sit down with thinks their pension goes to their spouse. Half of them have a nomination from a previous marriage. Without structured data linking the two worlds, nobody catches it until it's too late.”
14 → 6 days
Average deceased account processing time
Banking
Pacific Alliance Bank
Deceased account processing across five APAC jurisdictions
“Twelve per cent of our cases were being misrouted to the wrong legal team. Automated jurisdiction detection ended that overnight.”
30% reduction
Specialist time spent on data entry
Auction
Pendleton & Sons
Structured estate valuations and provenance for auction sales
“We're valuers, not data entry clerks. INHERIT lets us spend our time on the expertise solicitors are actually paying for.”
$3M in client savings annually
Across 40–50 multi-jurisdiction estates per year
Wealth Advisory
Peninsula Heritage Advisors
Dubai-based wealth advisory firm handling high-net-worth expat estates spanning Gulf states and home countries
“Sixty per cent of non-Muslim expats in Dubai have not registered a DIFC will. That means Sharia applies to their estate by default. Most of them have no idea.”
6 months → 6 weeks
Time to finalise guardian appointment
Legal
Petit Monde Family Law
Child guardian appointment specialists navigating separated parents across provinces
“Choosing who inherits the house takes an afternoon. Choosing who raises the children takes six months of agonised revision.”
230 million
Population served by Nigerian succession law
Academic
Prof. Adeyemi, University of Lagos
Succession law researcher modelling customary inheritance
“For the first time, I can model Yoruba customary inheritance and Igbo customary inheritance in the same structured format — and compare them both against the statutory rules. That's never been possible before.”
300 hours saved annually
From digitised koseki compilation and structured estate division
Legal Judicial Scrivener
Sakamoto Legal Office
Judicial scrivener handling koseki registration and estate division agreements for local families in Osaka
“Gathering koseki records from five municipalities used to take two months. With structured data, I can build the family tree in weeks — and spot a missing heir before the division agreement is signed, not after.”
72 hours
Average time from death notification to platform enforcement request
Technology
Spectral Likeness Ltd
Protecting deceased persons' digital likeness from unauthorised commercial use
“My client died in March. In April, his face appeared in a cryptocurrency advertisement. We had no structured way to prove he had explicitly prohibited that — until now.”
20% reduction
Administrative overhead across 3,500 cases
Government
State Trustee Victoria
Progressive estate-building for intestate cases with no will and no executor
“We build estates from scratch — bank by bank, fund by fund, relative by relative. INHERIT gives that investigation a structure from day one.”
18 months → 6 months
Maori Land Court succession processing time
Land Trust
Te Raukura Whenua Trust
Maori land trust managing succession of Maori freehold land under Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
“Our whakapapa connects us to the land and to each other. When succession takes 18 months, whanau can't access their inherited interests — and the connection frays. We need this to move faster.”
These scenarios are fictional and illustrative. All organisations are invented. References to real regulatory bodies, courts, and legislation are for accuracy — they do not imply endorsement or any relationship with those institutions. All characters are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons is coincidental.