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FailSafe: What Breaks If This Fails?

FailSafe is a free set of tools that find your digital and real-life weak points before they cost you: a lost phone, a single point of failure, weak backups, expiring documents, no emergency plan, an undocumented home. Private.

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Your life runs on devices, accounts and documents that all quietly assume nothing will go wrong. FailSafe asks the opposite question, what breaks if this fails? A lost phone, a dead drive, a missed renewal, a single account that takes down the rest. Each tool below finds one kind of fragility before it costs you, and tells you the exact fix. Everything runs on your device and is never uploaded.

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Your resilience score

Complete any tool below and your score appears here, blended across the tools you have used. It is saved only on this device.

Why a chatbot cannot do this for you

It is tempting to ask an AI “how do I protect myself?”, but resilience is the wrong job for a chatbot. The whole point is a map of your weak points, your accounts, your recovery paths, your valuables, and that is the most sensitive thing you own; it should never be pasted into a chat that logs and trains on it. A chatbot also forgets: it cannot hold your baseline, notice that your setup drifted, or remember the renewal that lapses next month, and it will confidently invent a recovery step that does not exist. FailSafe keeps everything on your device, runs real checks with codified rules, and turns “I should sort this out” into a score you can actually move.

What breaks if this fails?

FailSafe is a free set of resilience checks built around a single question: what actually breaks if one thing fails? Modern life quietly assumes nothing will go wrong — until a phone is lost, a hard drive dies, a passport lapses, or one hacked account cascades into all the others. Each FailSafe tool finds one common way people get caught out, tells you the exact fix, and rolls the results into a single resilience score from 0 to 100 that you can actually move. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is ever uploaded.

The six things you can check

  • Lost-phone stress test: what you would lose if your phone vanished right now — including the recovery-loop trap that locks people out of their accounts permanently.
  • Digital dependency map: finds the single point of failure — the one account, device or email whose loss would take everything else down with it.
  • 3-2-1 backup audit: checks whether your important data is really backed up, or just copied once to a drive sitting next to the original.
  • Document expiry radar: tracks passports, visas, licences and other documents so nothing lapses at the worst possible moment.
  • Emergency access kit: the details someone you trust would need if you were suddenly unable to help.
  • Home & valuables inventory: an insurance-ready record of what you own, before you need to prove it.

How the resilience score works

As you complete each tool, FailSafe reads the results saved on your device and blends the ones that produce a 0-to-100 figure — your dependency map, backup audit, emergency kit and home inventory — into a single score, and shows the status of the rest. The more tools you work through, the more complete and accurate the picture, and the clearer it becomes where to improve next. The score is computed and stored only in your browser; nothing is sent to a server.

Why this stays on your device

A map of your accounts, recovery paths and belongings is one of the most sensitive things you own — exactly what you would never want uploaded or pasted into a chatbot that logs and trains on it. That is why every FailSafe tool runs locally and saves anything you enter only to your browser's local storage on this device. It also means the checks keep working offline, with no signup and nothing to pay. Think of it as the digital equivalent of testing your smoke alarms: quiet, preventative maintenance that surfaces the weak points while they are still cheap to fix.

Good to know

FailSafe: What Breaks If This Fails?, frequently asked questions

What is FailSafe?

FailSafe is a free set of tools built around one question: what breaks if this fails? Modern life quietly assumes nothing will go wrong, until a phone is lost, a drive dies, a document lapses, or one account takes down all the others. Each FailSafe tool finds one kind of fragility before it costs you and tells you the exact fix, and together they give you a single resilience score you can actually move. Everything runs on your device and is never uploaded.

What can I check with it?

Six things, each a common way people get caught out: a lost-phone stress test (including the recovery-loop trap that locks people out permanently), a digital dependency map that finds the single point of failure whose loss would cascade, a 3-2-1 backup audit, a document expiry radar for passports, visas and licences, an emergency access kit for if you were suddenly unable to help, and an insurance-ready home and valuables inventory. Your resilience score blends the tools you have completed.

How is the resilience score worked out?

As you complete the tools, FailSafe reads the results saved on your device and blends the ones that produce a 0 to 100 score (your dependency map, backup audit, emergency kit and home inventory) into a single figure, and shows the status of the rest. The more tools you work through, the more complete and accurate the score, and the clearer it is where to improve next. Nothing is uploaded; the score is computed and stored only in your browser.

Why not just ask an AI how to protect myself?

Because resilience is the wrong job for a chatbot. The whole point is a map of your weak points, your accounts, recovery paths and valuables, which is the most sensitive thing you own and should never be pasted into a chat that logs and trains on it. A chatbot also forgets: it cannot hold your baseline, notice that your setup has drifted, or remember the renewal that lapses next month, and it will confidently invent a recovery step that does not exist. FailSafe keeps everything on your device and runs real checks with codified rules.

Is my information private?

Completely. Every FailSafe tool is built so that your answers, maps and lists never leave your device: they run in your browser, and anything you save is stored only in your browser's local storage on this device. That matters more here than almost anywhere, because a map of your access points and belongings is exactly what you would never want uploaded.

Is it free?

Yes, every FailSafe tool is free with no signup.