Your family deserves a plan.

The case

Most families aren't ready. That's not a criticism — it's a pattern we can fix.

Only about 5% of American households are comprehensively prepared for an emergency. Not because people don't care — because life is busy and nobody hands you a system for this.

Meanwhile, the infrastructure we depend on is thinner than most of us realize. Grocery stores run on just-in-time deliveries and keep only a few days of perishables on the shelf. Cell sites typically carry four to eight hours of battery backup, and the sites with generators stay up only as long as their fuel resupply lasts. A single equipment error took 125 million phones offline for roughly twelve hours in 2024.

These aren't predictions. They're the normal we already live in.

The good news: getting your family from "we should really do something" to "we actually have a plan" takes less time than you think. Cavere walks you through it.

Privacy first

We never hold the keys to your documents.

Your family's documents, medical details, contact information, and property records are encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM — the same standard banks and military systems use — before they ever reach our servers. The keys exist only on your family's devices, derived from your password.

That means we can't hand your sensitive content to anyone in readable form. Not advertisers. Not partners. Not anyone — because nothing we store lets us unlock it.

We're honest about the edge, too. To run features like expiry reminders and region-specific scenarios, our servers hold some plain metadata — your family name, how many members and pets you have and their roles and age bands, the categories, quantities, and dates in your inventory, document categories and sizes, and flags like whether a medication is critical or refrigerated. It describes the shape of your household, never the specifics. The actual content stays sealed.

The recovery tradeoff is real and intentional: if you lose your password and your recovery phrase, we can't recover your data for you. We've accepted that because your family's privacy is worth more than our convenience.

• ✓Encrypted on your device. Not visible to us. Not sold to anyone.
• ✓Works offline — your plan is on your phone, not stuck behind a signal.
• ✓Built-in children's-privacy protections for managed kid profiles.
• ✓Built for iPhone, Android, and the web, synced and encrypted across all of them.

Feature spotlight · Property audit

Nobody ever walks you through your own house. This does.

When Texas lost power in February 2021, at least 246 people died — most from hypothermia, in their own homes. The deadly question wasn't whether the storm would come. It was one almost nobody had been asked: does your heat actually run when the grid is down?

Cavere's property audit asks that question, and the dozens behind it — a guided walkthrough covering heat, water, power, and the systems they depend on, with plain-language help finding the model plate on the furnace, the fuel line, the well pump. When you finish, your answers become a property profile your whole family can read and a scored list of gaps, so the most important fix is always obvious.

lives lost in their own homes during Texas Winter Storm Uri, February 2021 — most from hypothermia.

Texas DSHS, 2021

About

Recovering what families used to know.

For most of American history, being prepared had nothing to do with survivalists or bunkers. It looked like the church basement that housed flood victims, the volunteer fire department staffed by neighbors with day jobs, and the small town that took care of itself when the highway closed.

Somewhere in the last couple of generations, most of us let that habit go. We got used to assuming the power stays on and the stores stay stocked — and that if something goes wrong, someone else will sort it out.

Usually that assumption holds up. But disruptions happen more often than most people realize, and when they do, the families who have done even a little preparation come through in much better shape than the ones who haven't.

We built Cavere to help families get that kind of readiness back. It has nothing to do with fear. It comes from the same ordinary sense of responsibility that has you checking the smoke detectors and teaching your kids to swim.

Your family is worth a plan.