Tashakorinia describes the immediate aftermath of a death as being thrust into an unwanted role: a project manager for a complex, unfamiliar task with no guidance. While she initially volunteered to help others navigate these administrative hurdles, she realized that AI could specifically address the least human elements of the process. The startup aims to relieve families of this burden by organizing tasks based on urgency, allowing users to prioritize immediate legal and financial requirements while ignoring less pressing matters.
LumenUs uses AI to handle the administrative avalanche of grief
After losing her husband in a car accident, Sara Tashakorinia faced 570 hours of bureaucratic labor alongside her personal loss. This experience led her to found LumenUs, a platform designed to automate the mundane, soul-crushing paperwork that follows a death, from tax filings to closing bank accounts.
Beyond basic organization, the platform seeks to uncover financial resources that often go unnoticed, such as the billions of dollars in unclaimed life insurance benefits. To ensure security, Tashakorinia is leveraging her own background in cybersecurity alongside co-founders Sajad Mirzaei, formerly of Google and Box, and innovation scientist Larry Keeley. The team is currently consulting with clinicians and social workers as they prepare for an early access launch this October, following their participation in the Startup Battlefield 200.
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