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
- Coordination across solicitor, accountant and adviser steps, run from one named contact (each professional step is quoted separately)
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 — the papers a grant application is founded on, the inheritance-tax account behind it, a deed — is prepared and settled by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it, inside the same engagement.
The band covers Signum's engagement for the matter, including the qualified professional's element; VAT, where it applies, is included. Court and registry fees are passed through at cost, and always shown before you commit.
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 hands anything that needs a solicitor or other qualified professional to the desk, where it is scoped and quoted inside one engagement. Personal recommendations on pensions, investments or insurance are arranged with a regulated financial adviser, separately.
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.
Qualified matters are dealt with by qualified people — inside one engagement, at one written fee.
You engage Signum once, for one written fee. Most of the work an estate needs — gathering, valuing, chasing institutions, drafting a will or a lasting power of attorney — needs no licence, and the desk does it itself. Where a step is reserved or regulated — the papers a grant application is founded on, the inheritance-tax account behind it, a deed, anything before a court — it is prepared and settled by a solicitor or other qualified professional whose authorisation covers it, under their own regulator and their own complaints route, inside that same engagement. Personal recommendations on pensions, investments or insurance sit outside that engagement: they are arranged with a regulated financial adviser, separately. Your engagement summary names, matter by matter, who is acting and under which regulation. 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.
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