Designate a trusted successor who will steward your network — and everything in it — after you pass.
You built this network. You added the people, named the relationships, uploaded the photographs, started the quests. You recorded the first Future Arc. You know why it matters.
The question ECO asks you to answer — not urgently, not dramatically, but deliberately — is who continues that work when you're no longer here. Not who inherits the data. Who stewards the network. Who welcomes new members, who makes sure the Historian keeps doing their work, who renews the plan, who knows where everything is and why it was built.
The Legacy Executor is not an administrator in a technical sense. They are a person the network trusts — named by you, in writing, inside the system — who has the authority to keep the community alive.
Not a password to pass on. A responsibility, named deliberately, while you still can.
Search the network's members by name. Find the person you trust with what you've built. Tap Designate. That's the entire act — one tap, one intention, recorded in the system. The designation can be changed at any time. There is no ceremony required, and no legal document. It is a named intention inside a private network.
Designating someone as Legacy Executor does not send them a notification or require them to accept. The designation is yours to make when you're ready, in a conversation you choose to have, at a pace that feels right. Some people tell the person immediately. Some do it quietly and leave a note about where to find it. ECO doesn't decide for you.
The Legacy Executor inherits Conductor-level access to the network — the same access the original owner had. They can welcome new members, manage the plan, support the Historian, and keep the network alive. The content, the memories, the Future Arcs, the archive: all of it remains intact. Nothing is lost in the transition.
A Legacy Executor can do everything the network owner could do: admit members, manage roles, renew the plan, configure cultural protocols, designate a new Historian. What they cannot do is delete the network or remove Heritage-protected content. The archive built by the original Conductor is permanent by design — the executor stewards it, not owns it to destroy.
Life changes. The person you trusted five years ago may not be the right person today. The designation can be updated at any time from your profile settings — it takes the same single tap. The most recent designation is the one that stands. There is no restriction on how many times it can be changed, and no penalty for changing it.
A network without a Legacy Executor is a network that depends entirely on one person continuing to exist. Most digital things end when the person who built them stops paying attention. ECO's Legacy Executor feature is the answer to that: a deliberate act that separates the survival of the community from the survival of one individual.