Early access — Minnesota & St. Croix County, WI
Gather what your family will need for the years ahead.
Gather Ahead is a calm, shared workspace for later-life care and decisions. It covers current care, who can act, the person’s own wishes, caregiving and payment, serious illness, final disposition, and the practical handoffs that follow—one step at a time.
Free right now for a small group of families. No card, no sales call.
A representative view of the workspace. Big type and high contrast throughout — it was built for people reading it at 80, not just for the adult child.
This stage of life is bigger than a legal packet.
Later-life planning is rarely one form. It is current medicines and contacts, who can act, the person's own care preferences, caregiver backup, benefits, signed documents, and the practical details someone may need later.
Those pieces often live in different folders, portals, conversations, and memories. A family needs one truthful place to record what is known, what still needs a source, and whose information each item belongs to.
Gather Ahead keeps the working record together without presenting it all at once. Open one area, answer one section, stop when you want, and return with everything saved.
What it does
A working plan, not another packet.
One shared planning record
Current care, decision-makers, care preferences, serious-illness planning, caregiving, benefits, final wishes, and immediate handoffs stay connected. Each person's information remains distinct.
One step at a time
Each workflow opens one section or one conversation question at a time. Answers save automatically, unknowns can stay unknown, and there is always a clear place to stop.
Questions with sources and limits
Ask in your own words. Answers cite the workspace's planning materials and a dated set of selected official sources. Uploaded documents are not read automatically, and individual legal, medical, financial, or eligibility judgment stays with the right professional.
Documents in, useful handoffs out
Store documents privately, bring in notes from a meeting or call, and review every suggested update before it joins the plan. Then prepare a focused handoff for family, a clinician, an emergency team, a caregiver, a funeral provider, or an attorney.
How it works
Open only the step you need.
Name the people
Start with who the plan is about. Care and preference worksheets remain available for everyone; new legal-document worksheets appear only where the family chooses them.
See what needs attention
The planning map shows what is recorded, what is still open, and which papers still need a person. Nothing is marked complete just to make the page look tidy.
Bring in the current record
Record medicines and care contacts, track existing papers, upload private copies, and note where signed originals are kept. Unknown details can stay unknown until someone verifies them.
Record the person's voice
A guided care-preferences conversation captures the person's own words, one situation at a time. Other forms cover caregiver backup, care and payment, serious illness, final wishes, and the first handoff after death.
Use the right local route
Minnesota and St. Croix County workspaces include different program steps, forms, contacts, and source material. The workspace keeps those local details beside the family's questions and follow-up.
Review, then share
A meeting transcript can become suggested facts and tasks, but nothing changes until a family member accepts it. For supported handoffs, choose the person and audience; the export uses the relevant recorded information and leaves unknowns unknown.
From anywhere in the workspace, Ask is close by. It gives a sourced answer without replacing the professional who needs to make the call.
Local by design
The state and county details are part of the work.
Minnesota
The Minnesota pilot combines the family's planning record with reviewed materials chosen for that household, relevant county-program steps, a local resource library, and preparation for elder-law conversations.
St. Croix County, Wisconsin
The Wisconsin workspace includes an ADRC and Long-Term Care Functional Screen path, Family Care and IRIS preparation, Wisconsin planning-form worksheets, local contacts, and an attorney-ready handoff.
Who it’s for
Built for the family. Useful to everyone around them.
Adult children
Keep calls, records, care information, and follow-up in one place while preserving whose words and choices are whose.
Older adults and spouses
Record your own preferences, prepare documents at your pace, and make the information easier for the people you choose to help later.
The professionals around a family
Clinicians, caregivers, funeral providers, care communities, and elder-law counsel can each receive a focused handoff instead of the family's entire workspace.
Private by default
The private workspace is password-protected, blocked from search engines, and shared by the family using its household access. Uploaded documents are stored privately, not published.
Readable at any age
Large type, high contrast, a warm background, and text labels alongside status indicators. The workspace is made to be read by the older adult as well as the adult child.
Clear boundaries
Gather Ahead is a product of Kennett Revenue Architecture LLC. It organizes information and conversations. It does not give legal, medical, or financial advice; care-preference worksheets are not medical orders, and planning worksheets are not signed legal documents.
Early access
Free right now, for a small group of families.
Gather Ahead is open to families in Minnesota and St. Croix County, Wisconsin while it’s still small. Tell me a little about your situation and I’ll set your workspace up myself.
No card, no sales call. If you're outside the area, ask anyway and I'll let you know when it opens up.
Help open this up
Right now this is free to two small groups. It could serve a lot more.
I built Gather Ahead for my own family. Each pilot household is still set up and supported by hand. Funding would cover the direct product costs and the source review required to open it to more families without flattening the local details.
What funding covers
Secure hosting, private document storage, AI usage, and the ongoing work of checking state and county source material.
What expansion looks like
More families in Minnesota and western Wisconsin first, then the state-specific research a new region needs — county programs, forms, and agencies differ, and this only works when the details are right.
Who this is for
A foundation, a care community, an aging-services nonprofit, or one person who has been through this. For an elder-law firm it's also the other side of the coin: fund the tool and you're where prepared families land.