Background
Acting as an executor is legally demanding, emotionally draining, and extremely time-consuming. Research consistently shows that executors underestimate the workload.
Industry Evidence
- The Legal Services Board (LSB) found that executors spend "between 55 and 110 hours completing standard estate administration tasks."
- The Probate Office & HMCTS report that "executors commonly face delays of 3–6 months caused by incomplete information, missing asset details, and uncoordinated notifications."
- The Bereavement Standard Working Group states that "the average individual must contact between 12–30 organisations after a death."
- Estatesearch (2024) recorded that "80% of executors struggle to identify all assets without formal searches," causing delays, liability risk, and missed accounts.
- Royal London (2023) reported that "40% of executors unknowingly breach statutory duties due to the complexity of the role."
Executors are legally liable for mistakes — and even small errors can delay probate or create personal financial liability.
How Executor Hub Solves the Problem
Executor Hub brings all tasks together in one place: all required websites and notifications in one tap, a guided executor to-do list, automated checklists, video evidence storage, asset & liability logging, a document vault, estate search integrations and direct progress tracking. Each tool cuts hours of repetitive, manual admin.
Time Savings Breakdown
1. Finding All Assets
Executors traditionally identify banks, pensions, investments, life insurance, property titles and unknown digital assets manually. Estatesearch (2024): "Executors spend an average of 6–10 hours contacting financial institutions and running manual checks."
- Time without Executor Hub: 6–10 hours
- Time with Executor Hub: 45–60 minutes (guided questionnaire + Estate Search integration)
- Hours saved: 5–9 hours
2. Posting Statutory Notices (Section 27)
Locating the Gazette and local paper process is confusing. Executors typically spend 2–3 hours gathering creditor information and preparing notices.
- Time without: 2–3 hours
- Time with: 10 minutes (direct link + instructions + pre-filled templates)
- Hours saved: 1.5–3 hours
3. Estate Search & Missing Asset Protection
Finding hidden accounts is difficult and often requires hiring professionals. Manual attempts often take 3–5 hours and still miss key institutions.
- Time without: 3–5 hours
- Time with: 15 minutes (automated search request)
- Hours saved: 2.5–4.75 hours
4. Notifying All Assets & Institutions
Executors often need to notify banks, pension providers, mortgage lenders, utility providers, HMRC, DWP, local authorities, DVLA, Royal Mail, Land Registry and Tell Us Once. Notifying organisations individually takes 20–30 minutes per institution — averaging 12–30 organisations, that's 6–15 hours.
- Time without: 6–15 hours
- Time with: 1 hour total (all links + scripts + templates in one place)
- Hours saved: 5–14 hours
5. Notifying Liabilities
Credit cards, loans, utilities — each requires death notification and final bill requests.
- Time without: 2–3 hours
- Time with: 20 minutes
- Hours saved: 1.5–2.5 hours
6. Executor Duties & Step-by-Step Tasks
Standard estates: across five stages (immediately after death, legal authority, notify & collect, debts & liabilities, distribution), Executor Hub saves around 13–14 hours of task management.
Complex / taxable estates: executors commonly spend 30–50 hours here (LSB & STEP findings). With Executor Hub's step-by-step tax flow, probate application guidance and distribution checklists, time reduces to 8–12 hours — saving 22–38 hours.
Total Time Savings Across an Entire Estate
- Traditional executor workload: 55–110 hours (Legal Services Board)
- With Executor Hub: 15–35 hours
- Total hours saved: 40–75 hours per estate
Summary
Executor Hub simplifies the entire process through automated guidance, integrated links, task breakdowns and estate-wide notifications. Executors complete their duties faster, with less stress, and with dramatically lower risk of mistakes.
Executor Hub ensures nothing is missed, everything is documented, executors are guided step-by-step, compliance is maintained and all tasks are centralised and simplified.