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THE COMPANION

SECTION 18

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONprovocation1-3yconfidence / low

Digital Estates Need Executable Handoffs

Hypothesis: A personal agent can package unfinished work, active subscriptions, account instructions, and decision context into an auditable handoff governed by named executors and expiry rules. This is estate execution, not a family memory archive. The test is whether successors complete authorized obligations without inheriting unrestricted access to the person's corpus.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

The cited captures document consumer assistants, subscriptions, and horizontal agents. They do not establish executable digital-estate handoffs; the test is whether named successors complete authorized obligations under scoped access and expiry rules.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

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    Sensor Tower State of AI 2026

    market intelligence / published 2026-06-16 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition

    investor market map / dated 2026-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  3. S03
    Adoption Monitor

    academic monitor / dated 2026-07 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  4. S04
    Consumers Want AI Shopping Help, But Not Purchase Decisions

    consumer survey / published 2026-05-27 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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