NewAI obituary drafting, reviewed by you

Run every case with calm and care.

Solace carries every case from the first call to the final invoice — intake, permits, scheduling, obituaries, and family billing in one calm place. No paper. No fax. No scattered spreadsheets.

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12

Active cases

5

Services this week

2

Deadlines ≤3 days

3

Unpaid invoices

Deadlines & tasks

Burial permit

Eleanor Whitfield

Due tomorrow

Death certificate

James Okonkwo

Due in 2d

Cremation permit

Marta Reyes

Due in 3d

Recent cases

Eleanor Whitfield

2026-0042

Arranging

James Okonkwo

2026-0041

Scheduled

Marta Reyes

2026-0040

In service

Built for independent & family-owned funeral homes

Riverside Funeral HomeOkonkwo & SonsHillcrest MemorialValle Verde FunerariaThornbury Family ChapelGrace Memorial CareLakeside Funeral ServiceSt. Brigid's ChapelRiverside Funeral HomeOkonkwo & SonsHillcrest MemorialValle Verde FunerariaThornbury Family ChapelGrace Memorial CareLakeside Funeral ServiceSt. Brigid's Chapel

Every death means a stack of paperwork.

Not one of those forms should need the same information typed twice.

0+

forms per case

the same details, re-typed by hand today

0 hrs

of admin per case

what Solace is built to give back

0s

to open a case

from first call to a live checklist

0

missed deadlines

every permit tracked, alerted, and dated

The whole case

Everything a case needs, in one place

Stop re-typing the same details into ten forms. Solace holds the whole case — and keeps you ahead of every legal deadline.

Compliance deadlines, tracked

Every permit and certificate carries its legal deadline. Anything due within three days turns amber, within one day red — and the assigned director gets an email every morning. Missing a filing is a legal problem, not an inconvenience.

Burial permitDue tomorrow
Death certificateDue in 2d
AuthorizationDue in 9d

Case intake in a minute

One case per death — deceased, family, and a pre-seeded checklist, opened while you're still on the first call.

Intake
Arranging
Scheduled

A private family portal

One link. No account, no password. They sign, approve, and pay from the sofa.

In loving memory

Eleanor Whitfield

Service details
Sign documents
Pay invoice
Pay securely

AI that drafts, never decides

A warm, factual obituary draft from the case details in seconds — and death certificate fields mapped for review. The AI never invents a fact, never sends, never files. Your name goes on it, so you approve every word.

Drafting from case details…

She kept a garden that outlived every frost, and taught

Staff reviews before anything sends

Paid without the phone calls

Itemized goods & services invoices the family pays online through Stripe. No chasing cheques during the hardest week of their lives — and the money lands in your account.

Memorial pages, automatically

A shareable page with the obituary, photos, a donation link, and a guestbook you moderate — created with every case, published when you say so.

How it works

Three steps. One case. Zero re-typing.

01

Open the case on the first call

Deceased details, the family's next of kin, disposition type. Solace numbers the case, seeds the intake checklist, and mints a private family link before you hang up.

  • Case number assigned automatically
  • 10-step intake checklist seeded
  • Family portal link ready to send
02

Let the paperwork keep itself on schedule

Add each permit and certificate with its legal deadline. The dashboard turns amber at three days, red at one, and emails the assigned director every morning until it's filed.

  • Deadline alerts before they bite
  • Death certificate fields auto-mapped
  • Obituary drafted for your review
03

Send one link. The family does the rest

They read the service details, e-sign what needs signing, approve the obituary, and pay the invoice — from their phone, at 11pm, without a single call to your office.

  • E-signatures captured and dated
  • Invoice paid securely online
  • Memorial page live when you publish
Honestly compared

The big platforms aren't built for you

FrontRunner, Passare and Gather are capable systems — designed and priced for multi-location groups with staff to run them. If you are two directors and a spreadsheet, that's the wrong tool.

CapabilitySolaceEnterprise incumbents
Built for 1–5 location independents
AI obituary drafting
AI form auto-fill for certificates
Family portal with no account neededVaries
Legal deadline alerts on the dashboardVaries
Family pays the invoice onlineVaries
Memorial page with every case
Live in a day, no implementation fee
Starts under $200/month

Based on publicly listed pricing and features as of 2026. Incumbent capabilities vary by tier and configuration — compare your own quote before switching.

Trust

You hold families' worst day. We hold it carefully.

Names, dates of death, next of kin, signed authorizations — this is the most sensitive data a small business ever touches. It's protected at the database level, not by hoping the app asks the right question.

Isolated per funeral home

Row-level security in the database means one home's cases are unreachable from another's session. Not a filter in the app — a rule in Postgres.

Family links expire and revoke

Each family gets a signed link scoped to exactly one case. Regenerate it and the old one dies instantly. No account, no password to leak.

Documents stay private

Uploaded certificates and permits live in a private bucket. Every view is a fresh, short-lived signed URL — never a public address.

AI never sees more than it needs

Drafts are generated from case facts, reviewed by staff, and never auto-sent or auto-filed. We don't train on your families' data.

From the arrangement room

Directors who do it all

We were re-typing the same information ten times per case. Solace ended that in the first week. My arranger got her afternoons back.
M
Margaret H.
Funeral Director · Family-owned, 2 locations
The deadline alerts alone are worth it. Permits used to keep me up at night — now the dashboard watches them for me.
D
David R.
Independent funeral home
Families keep telling us how easy the portal was. Signing and paying from their phone, no phone tag. That's what wins referrals.
P
Priya S.
Single location
I was sceptical about AI anywhere near an obituary. It drafts, I edit, the family approves. It never once made something up.
T
Thomas B.
Third-generation firm
Pricing

Priced for independents, not chains

Enterprise tools charge $400–900 per location and build for corporations. Solace starts at $199 — with a 14-day free trial of Professional.

Starter

For a single home finding its feet.

$199/mo

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  • 1 location
  • Up to 25 active cases
  • Case intake & workspace
  • Document deadline tracking
  • Itemized invoicing
  • 1 staff seat
Most popular

Professional

Everything, for the firm running real volume.

$399/mo

Start free trial
  • 1 location
  • Unlimited cases
  • AI obituary + form auto-fill
  • Family portal & e-signing
  • Online family payments
  • Email deadline reminders
  • Memorial pages
  • 5 staff seats

Multi-Location

For chains that still feel independent.

$650/mo per location

Start free trial
  • Everything in Professional
  • Multi-location dashboard
  • White-label family portal
  • Unlimited seats
  • Priority support

All plans month-to-month. Cancel in two clicks — your data stays exportable either way.

FAQ

Questions directors ask us

Still unsure? Ask us anything before you spend a minute setting up.

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Your next case can start on Solace.

Set up your funeral home in minutes, open a case on the next first call, and let the paperwork keep itself on schedule.

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