Fix the Thing 70% of Americans Are Ignoring

The Will You Don't Have Is Already Costing YouMost people think estate planning is something you do when you're old, wealthy, or both. David Rosati spent 15 years as a corporate and M&A lawyer watching that assumption wreck families. The paperwork gets avoided. The conversations never happen. And then someone dies, and suddenly everything that should have been simple becomes a courtroom fight.So he built something to fix that. Succession Wills is a flat-fee online will builder, starting at $79.99, designed to give regular people the legal document they need without the lawyer bill they've been dreading. David is one half of a fully bootstrapped two-person team. They launched in January. They have no investors and no office. And they rebuilt their entire front end, from scratch, in a matter of days, using AI.That's not the wild part. The wild part is how they're using AI inside the product itself.Framework 1: Deterministic Logic Plus Conversational AIMost online will builders are wizard-based forms. You fill in fields, answer dropdowns, and a document gets generated. The problem is that approach assumes you already know what you want and understand every question being asked. That's almost never true.David describes the traditional lawyer experience as a back-and-forth conversation. A lawyer asks questions, interprets answers, explains concepts, offers examples, and gently redirects when you're overthinking something. That's the experience Succession Wills is trying to replicate.Their solution is a split architecture:The will itself is generated by a fully deterministic system. Every line of text that could appear in the final document was authored by David and his co-founder Nick. No AI is drafting legal language.The AI layer sits on top of that system as a trained conversational guide. It walks users through the process, answers questions in plain language, and surfaces the right prompts at the right moment.The result is something closer to having a lawyer in the room than clicking through a form.Framework 2: Perfect as the Enemy of Good (Applied to Estate Planning)David has a clear take on how to actually get a will done: stop waiting until it's perfect. The biggest threat to completing a will isn't complexity. It's the emotionally loaded questions, like who gets Dad's guitar, that cause people to stall and never finish.His advice:Get the document done first. "All my stuff goes to my kids equally" is a legally valid will.Sentimental and specific bequests can be handled in a separate non-binding rider that doesn't tie the executor's hands if circumstances change.Succession Wills offers lifetime platform access for one flat fee. You can revise whenever life changes, without paying again.The core insight is that a will should be a living document, revisited after major life events, not a one-time ceremonial act.Framework 3: The LLM-as-Wireframe MethodDavid has developed a practical framework for how founders and individuals can use AI responsibly in legal contexts without replacing professional counsel entirely.Use an LLM to draft a first version of any agreement: partnership, NDA, employment contract, prenup.Treat that output as a wireframe, not a final document.Bring that wireframe to a lawyer. The expensive part of legal work is the blank-canvas drafting. Show up with 80% done and you've cut the billable hours significantly.This is a reframe most founders haven't considered. AI doesn't replace the lawyer. It dramatically reduces what the lawyer has to do, which reduces what you pay.https://www.successionwills.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-rosati-aa8b91100/⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/estesryan/⁠⁠⁠⁠https://aiforfounders.co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kitcaster.com/application ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ryanestes.info⁠⁠⁠