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The company behind Gentle Handover

Only for humanity.

Every product we make has to help people. That is our only rule.

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Company

What Humanful is

Humanful is a young, international software company. We make tools for the hardest moments in people's lives: the ones that happen around us, and the ones we fight inside. Our first product helps people prepare while they can, so their families are left with answers instead of questions.

Fig. 1Our only rule, applied to every idea

Principles

Our rule in practice

Principles are easy to write. These are the promises that follow from them.

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Fig. 2Our rule in practice

  1. No ads

    There is no advertising in anything we make, and there never will be.

  2. We never sell data

    We do not sell, rent or trade what people store with us, or what we know about them.

  3. Private by design

    We collect only what a feature needs. What people store with us is encrypted, and it belongs to them.

  4. We say true things

    We say exactly what our software does, and we never promise what the code does not do.

  5. For everyone

    Plain words and large type, on pages that work at any age, on any screen, in more than one language.

Engineering

How we build

The standards every product we make is held to, checked in the code of our first one.

  1. Encrypted by default

    In Gentle Handover, what people keep in their boxes, the text of their letters and plans, and their recordings are stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM, the encryption standard published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. We hold the keys, so this is not zero-knowledge, and we say so.

  2. Analytics only with consent

    Our products run no analytics until you agree, and none at all when your browser sends Global Privacy Control, a setting that asks websites not to sell or share your data. This website has no analytics at all.

  3. Tested before it ships

    Our code is checked by thousands of automated tests, a code style check and a scan for leaked secrets.

  4. A sealed audit trail

    Every sensitive action is written to an audit trail sealed in a keyed hash chain. It is verified every night, and any break raises an alert.

  5. Accessible, in more than one language

    We aim for WCAG 2.1 level AA, the international accessibility guidelines from the W3C. Automated checks test our pages in light and dark, on a desktop and a phone.

Fig. 3How we build

The rules our products must never break are written down, each with the tests that prove it, and a check fails when a rule loses its test.

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What we make

Our products

One product for now, made with care.

Our first productOpening soon

Gentle Handover

Your words, in the right hands, at the right time.

Gentle Handover keeps your letters, passwords, plans and more, and hands them to the people you chose when the time comes.

How Gentle Handover worksVisit gentlehandover.com

A Humanful service

Our next productComing soon

Gentle Restart

A new start for people whose world fell apart.

Trust

What we promise in every product, and how to report a security problem.

Trust and security

Careers and partners

Work with us

hello@humanful.org

  • Careers

    We are not hiring right now. If you believe in what we are building, write to us and tell us what you do.

  • Partners and investors

    We are open to partnerships that serve the people we all care for, and to conversations with investors who share our rule. Work with us

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