Sunset GTM brain

Sunset helps bereaved families and estate professionals discover a deceased person's assets and settle accounts.

category

Estate settlement and asset discovery

market profile

  • text: Executors must locate and close accounts across banks, insurers, brokers and public records while managing grief and probate.
  • text: Professional fiduciaries need asset inventories, case tracking and client approvals across multiple estates.

personas

  • title: Family executor or surviving relative
    pains:
    • Unknown accounts and debts are scattered across institutions
    • Probate paperwork and account closures compete with family responsibilities
  • title: Probate attorney or licensed fiduciary
    pains:
    • Building a comprehensive asset inventory takes repeated searches
    • Managing multiple estates requires deadlines, account details and client approvals
  • title: Funeral home aftercare specialist
    pains:
    • Families need practical help after services end
    • Referrals must be accessible and understandable during bereavement

icp

  • text: US families and personal representatives settling an estate after a death, especially where financial accounts are unknown.
  • text: Probate attorneys, trustees, licensed fiduciaries and aftercare professionals managing estate cases for clients.

message pillars

  • text: Discover accounts and help claim and close them in one process.
  • text: Give families a guided process and control over timing.
  • text: Offer clear family pricing without a percentage of estate assets.

objections

  • objection: Will this find every account?
    response: Use the search as a discovery aid and check results against available records; Sunset says results can be incomplete or inaccurate.
  • objection: I do not want money moved without my permission.
    response: Sunset says nothing moves forward without the user's approval.
  • objection: Professional searches may be too expensive for occasional cases.
    response: The published professional option is billed per inventory with no monthly commitment.

competitors

  • name: Trust & Will
    why: Adjacent online estate planning platform serving families and estate professionals.
  • name: Empathy
    why: Guidance and support for bereaved families overlap with estate administration.
  • name: Elayne
    why: Combines asset discovery with hands-on estate settlement assistance.

influencers

  • name: Stephen Walter
    url: https://www.hellosunset.com/announcements/automated-closure
    why: Founder and attorney describes the administrative burden on families.

keywords

  • find deceased person's bank accounts
  • estate account discovery
  • settle an estate after death
  • executor asset search
  • probate asset inventory
  • close deceased accounts

voice

  • Compassionate
  • Plain-spoken
  • Reassuring and practical

signals

  • text: A newly appointed executor is searching for unknown assets or preparing probate paperwork.
  • text: A probate practice or fiduciary is handling multiple estates and needs asset inventories.

pricing

model: flat
starting price: $50 per estate for families; professional inventory $500 per search

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • Professional referrals
  • Website

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Stephen Walter
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: https://www.sunsetapp.com/
  • name: Kaela Worthen
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Cofounder of Sunset, finding and moving funds after you lose a loved one. Previously cofounded Paintbrush, Imzy, worked at Podium, Reddit. Mostly a product person with some engineering, UX, data science, and a bit everything else mixed in.

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