CenturyHouse provides a digital family governance operating system that helps families preserve values, culture, and continuity across generations. The platform includes a diagnostic assessment that scores families across five pillars of legacy-building, guided planning tools, and a permanent vault for family governance documents. It is designed for use by families directly or through financial advisors, attorneys, and family offices.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Families lack structured tools and frameworks for passing down non-financial assets like values, culture, and decision-making practices to future generations. Traditional wealth planning focuses on financial and legal structures, leaving family governance, heir preparedness, and values transmission unaddressed, which can lead to fragmented family relationships and poorly prepared successors.
Solution
CenturyHouse offers a digital "soft governance" operating system that helps families build and maintain intergenerational continuity. The platform guides users through a diagnostic assessment, which generates a Family Legacy Score across five pillars, followed by an ordered set of tools covering core values, mission statements, governance charters, and meeting planning. Short guidance notes accompany families at every step, and a permanent vault stores family culture documents that are inherited intact by future generations. Advisors can sponsor client families, access pillar-scoped review permissions with family consent, and collaborate alongside the family as named advisors.
Target Audience
Primary customers are financial advisors, attorneys, and family offices who sponsor family memberships, as well as the multigenerational families themselves who seek structured tools for values transmission and governance.
Features
- 25-question Family Legacy Diagnostic that produces a score, band, and weakness analysis across five pillars
- Sequential tool path that unlocks the next resource based on the family's weakest pillar
- Built-in guidance prompts and notes that support families without requiring advisor-led sessions
- Spousal and adult-child access under one membership with configurable visibility and commenting permissions
- Revocable, logged advisor access granted by the family with pillar-level scoping
- Permanent digital vault for storing family values, culture, and governance documents for inheritance