One-page papers you can use today and hand on
Each is a single page you can use alone, today. There is nothing to sign up for and no form in front of the file, and you do not need to write to me.
They are mine: I am Eugene Hvozdikov, and I run Arasaka in Busto Arsizio, Italy. Who I am, and the facts you can check.
The papers
— To know who can open your mail, files and accounts
Who holds the keys. You fill in one row for each thing you rely on (mail, documents, photos, passwords, the domain, the backups): whose name the account is in, who has the password, and who could open it if you could not.
— To see that page filled in
Who holds the keys: a filled example (PDF). The same page for an invented family, with the three findings that followed.
— To put to whoever runs your systems
Ten questions for whoever runs your systems. For your IT supplier, your IT person, or yourself, each with what a good answer sounds like.
— To write down a restore test
Restore test report (PDF). A blank form for the day a backup is restored as a test: the copy used, the time it took, how it was checked, whether everything came back, and what failed.
— To tell everyone what changed when the mail moves
The note for the day of the switch: an example (PDF). The one page everyone in a firm receives on the day its mail moves, with the blanks marked: what changed, the one thing to do, and where things are now.
If you advise families or firms
For an accountant, a lawyer or a wealth adviser whose clients could use these.
— Hand them on freely
Send any of these to a client, or print it for them. You do not need to ask me first, and your client does not need to write to me to use it.
— An hour for one client of yours
The hour to find out who holds the keys is open to one client of yours: the page filled in together, and three findings in writing within two working days. I hold one a week, so requests are taken in the order they arrive.
— No fee asked, none offered
The hour is free for your client. For an introduction I pay nothing and I ask nothing.
— Nobody is told who came through you
I tell no other person what your client says to me, that we spoke, or that they came through you.
Want to see where you stand?
In one hour we write down who can open your mail, your files and your accounts, and who could if that person were away. You keep the page. It is free.