About SLDocs
SLDocs was founded by Bimal Saraiya, an attorney and software developer who repeatedly encountered three questions in legal practice:
“Where can I safely store my estate planning files so they can be accessed if something happens to me?”
“How will my contacts get my files if something happens to me?”
“What happens to my documents if the firm goes out of business or you retire?”
These are not edge-case concerns. They are the most practical, urgent questions that follow every estate planning conversation — and we heard them over and over, in almost the same order.
People often asked whether they should register their documents with the county. Texas law technically allows it (Estates Code §252) — but the county never learns you've died, someone still has to know the will exists to request it, and if you move, your heirs end up asking the wrong county and are told it doesn't exist. Other states have no system in place or are heavily restricted. The honest answer to “where should I keep these, and how will my family even find them?” was that there wasn't a good one.
The existing options each failed in their own way: email attachments that got buried, USB drives that got lost, filing cabinets no one knew to look in, cloud storage that wasn't designed for estate access. And none of them answered the hardest question — what happens decades later, when the drafting attorney has retired or the firm has wound down.
We never had a good answer to that last one. So we built it: secure, encrypted storage for your estate documents, a reliable way to make sure the right people can reach them when it matters most, and continuity that doesn't depend on any single firm staying in business.
Meet the founder
Bimal Saraiya
Founder, SLDocs
Bimal Saraiya is an attorney and software developer. He created SLDocs after repeatedly seeing the same practical problem in legal practice: families often do not know where critical estate documents are stored when they need them most. His experience across law, software, and information management shaped SLDocs as a secure, long-term document vault.
Saraiya PLLC and SLDocs are separate businesses. SLDocs provides secure document-vault technology, not legal services.
Built to last
Two policies behind “decades later”
Estate documents are often needed long after they're stored. Your storage service needs to outlast a lot of things: change, neglect, gaps in payment. Two policies make that promise concrete.
Retention
Documents are never deleted
If you stop paying, miss a renewal, or simply walk away for years, your uploaded documents remain encrypted in storage and encryption keys stay wrapped in our key-management system. You — or your family, years later — can restore access by reactivating the account for a flat $250 recovery fee plus the current price of your plan. The fee does not grow with the time elapsed. The documents are still there when you come back.
Free tier persists
Six documents, free, yours to keep
The Free tier — up to six documents and one designated recipient — needs no card and no recurring payment. The one thing we ask is that you sign in at least once every three years, so we know the account is still wanted; miss that window and it pauses, but your documents and recipients are preserved and you can reactivate. The paid tiers exist for households with more to store, not as a paywall on what you've already uploaded.
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