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Stillago

Stillago - The Living Operations Manual for When You Cannot Be There

Client: Sizzle + Bear Wade (founder partnership)Timeline: Multi-phase product buildBudget: Venture-style product investmentTeam: Full-stack product + security
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The Challenge

Millions of owners sit between personal estate tools and enterprise succession consultants: they need a living map of devices, money, operations, and people, not a one-time PDF. Password managers and Notion templates fail because they lack operational context, decay immediately, and nobody trains family to use them under stress.

The Solution

Stillago is a structured nine-section operational manual (First 48 Hours through Keeping It Alive) designed for kin at 2am. Built on Next.js App Router, MongoDB Atlas, Stripe, and Resend, with AES-256-GCM field-level encryption, passwordless OTP + httpOnly JWTs, rate limiting, timing-safe cron auth, and one-year audit TTL. Ring the Bell implements a graduated dead-man switch with dispute and snooze paths. Fresh Check drives weekly field confirmation. A fractional CFO surface adds portfolio health, invites, and co-branding for kin. Letter of Intent layers intent above the manual with a wizard, complexity routing, and attorney-drafted offline templates when appropriate.

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind

Backend

  • Node.js
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Resend

Infrastructure

  • Vercel
  • Stripe
  • Cron + audit pipeline

The Results

9
manual sections built for someone under stress
3
isolated trust models: owner, CFO, emergency read-only
AES-256
GCM field-level encryption on sensitive data

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