Plain prices. No retainer,
no surprises.
Most people start with one guided Build. Intake is free — answer everything online, or take the 20-minute call. Finding out what's involved costs you nothing, and there's no obligation to go ahead.
Start your intake — freeThree doors. Start where your household is.
Everything Signum offers sits behind one of three doors. Records built and kept, a will drafted from your instructions, or an estate administered in full — each priced plainly, each scoped free at intake: answer everything online, or take the 20-minute call.
The household file your executor, attorney and family will one day need — built for you, kept current year on year.
A legally binding will for England & Wales — drafting from your instructions is a service Signum provides directly.
When an estate must actually be administered — the grant, the tax account, the full matter — carried out by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it.
Built once. Kept current.
Tell us where things stand — answer online, or take the call. We scope the work and tell you exactly what a Build would involve — and what it would cost.
If you want to scope the work before committing.
- Answer online, or take a 20-minute call — same intake, either way
- We map what your household needs
- A clear, specific records request list
- A plain quote for your Build — no obligation
Your first record set built for you, in one guided build.
If you want the file built. This is where most people start.
- Everything from your free intake
- A guided Build Session (60–90 minutes)
- Your first record set built for you — Operating Brief, Authority Register, Designated Places, Records Roadmap
- A Readiness Letter — what exists, what's missing, what's next
- One follow-up review
Your records kept current, reviewed, and routed — year on year.
If your file exists and you want it kept current.
- Your records kept current
- Annual review and a refreshed Readiness Letter
- Trusted-person routing kept live
- Priority queue
For complex households — property, business interests, cross-border, dependants.
If your household is complex and wants a named contact.
- Build and Stewardship
- Deeper verification and a document-location audit
- A named escalation contact
- Coordinated hand-offs to your solicitor or adviser
Stewardship and Private Office both begin with a Build. There's no tier to "upgrade into" mid-way — you build the file once, then choose whether we keep it current.
Drafted from your instructions.
Will-drafting from your instructions is an unreserved service Signum provides directly. Start a will online →
When the estate must actually be administered.
Every matter is scoped on the free intake call and quoted fixed, in writing, before any work begins. Reserved and regulated work — probate, the tax account, the full administration — is carried out by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it, inside the same engagement.
What the market actually charges.
Four facts, each sourced and dated — so "transparent pricing" is something you can check, not just a line we say.
A bank acting as executor charges a percentage: Barclays up to 4.5%, RBS 4%, Lloyds 2.5% on the first £1m, all before VAT. On a £500,000 estate that is a five-figure fee before any work is itemised.
The official guideline rate for a senior solicitor is £288–£579 an hour before VAT, and City firms bill £500–£900. Fixed prices exist here so that number never becomes your problem.
For cross-border wills, resealing, cross-option agreements and family investment companies, virtually no UK firm publishes a price at all. We publish every one. That fact is the comparison.
Nearly every solicitor price you'll see advertised is exclusive of VAT — 20% arrives at invoice. Every Signum price on this page is the final number.
A free assistant that explains how it all works, drafts your will from your answers, and helps organise what you have — then routes anything regulated to a real adviser.
If you only want one thing
Several sessions are also available on their own — no tier required. Some are already folded into a Build or Stewardship.
Not sure which you need? The free 20-minute intake call will tell you — a genuine scoping conversation, not a sales pitch.
Signum builds, indexes and keeps records. It does not give legal, tax or financial advice.
Where regulated or reserved work is needed — probate, a personal financial recommendation, complex tax — we coordinate it: a Signum specialist briefs a panel solicitor or adviser. The regulated work is always done by the regulated party.
Start your intake.
Free either way — answer everything online and your scope and written quote arrive by email, or book the free 20-minute call. No obligation.
Start your intake — free