About The FIRM Guide
This site is the companion to The Recoverable Family by R. Martin Colby. The book teaches the FIRM System — a finite way to organize your family's important information so that, if something happens to the person who manages everything, the right people can still find what they need.
Each Module in the book has a template. To keep the book readable, the full templates live here. Find your Module, download or print the template, fill it in privately, and store it in your own Vault.
The three artifacts
- The Vault — your secure, family-controlled container (a fireproof safe, a password manager, an encrypted folder, or a combination).
- The Secure Guide — the private one: the critical details of how your family's information is organized and accessed. Kept inside the Vault.
- The Family Guide — the shareable one: the orientation your loved ones need — what exists, who to call, what matters — without exposing credentials or access details.