THE COMPANION
SECTION 18
ISSUE 001
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.
- S01Sensor Tower State of AI 2026
market intelligence / published 2026-06-16 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition
investor market map / dated 2026-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Adoption Monitor
academic monitor / dated 2026-07 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S04Consumers Want AI Shopping Help, But Not Purchase Decisions
consumer survey / published 2026-05-27 / retrieved 2026-07-09