Executor Lock Explained

Executor Lock™ is the mechanism that distinguishes Afterlife AI™ from every other service in the category. It is a cryptographically enforced execution and authority-transition system that governs what a preserved Persona can and cannot do once a verified authority-transition event occurs following death.

Executor Lock™ operates at runtime. It restricts execution, disables or constrains capabilities, and enforces the predefined authority rules that determine whether a Persona may communicate, respond or remain inactive. All state changes and authorised actions are auditable. No authority is assumed. No access is granted by default. A preserved Persona cannot act outside the boundaries you defined in advance, and the boundaries cannot be unilaterally rewritten after the fact.

What Executor Lock™ does in practice

In practical terms, Executor Lock™ is the answer to the question a listener asked on ABC Radio Melbourne when Chris Williams was interviewed by Ali Moore: can an AI persona settle a will dispute. The answer that question deserves is not yes or no in the abstract. The answer is that an AI Persona should only be able to do whatever the original person, while alive, explicitly authorised it to do. Anything else is the Persona acting without authority, which is exactly what Executor Lock™ prevents.

Executor Lock™ also addresses the drift problem identified by legal academics writing in The Conversation. Generative AI is probabilistic. Over time and across many interactions, an ungoverned Persona could drift from the values and beliefs of the person it represents. Executor Lock™ binds the Persona to the boundaries defined by the creator. Drift is not eliminated entirely (no AI system is deterministic) but the actions the Persona is permitted to take are constrained, audited and reversible by the Executor under the rules you set.

What Executor Lock™ specifically does not do

Executor Lock™ does not give the Executor the authority to rewrite the Persona. The Executor's role is to enforce the rules you set, not to set new rules in your absence. An Executor cannot make the Persona say something you did not authorise. An Executor cannot grant new access you did not pre-approve. An Executor cannot remove constraints you explicitly imposed. The Executor's authority is bounded by the contract you signed before authority transitioned.

The Executor Lock™ Agreement

Before the Persona is committed, you sign an Executor Lock™ Agreement with your designated Executor and IDY™ Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a contractual document that records the boundaries you set, the events that trigger authority transition, the data your Executor can access, the actions they can authorise and the actions they cannot. The Agreement is auditable, revisable during your lifetime and binding after authority transition.

The Agreement is written in plain language. The appendices are where most of the granular detail sits: the topic permissions, the access permissions, the message-scheduling schedule, the platform continuity terms, the audit commitments and the dispute provisions. You can read the Agreement in full before anything is committed: it is presented at the point you designate your Executor, and questions before signup can go to hello@idy.ai.