Loyalty Estate Recovery

The points, miles, and rewards nobody told the executor about.

Most estates leave behind $1,000–$10,000 in unused airline miles, hotel points, and credit-card rewards. Most of it is forfeited because the executor didn't know the accounts existed — or didn't know about the 90-day, 1-year, or "discretionary" windows each program enforces.

Loyalty Estate Recovery

The points, miles, and rewards nobody told the executor about.

Most estates leave behind $1,000–$10,000 in unused airline miles, hotel points, and credit-card rewards. Most of it is forfeited because the executor didn't know the accounts existed — or didn't know about the 90-day, 1-year, or "discretionary" windows each program enforces.

We find them. We file properly. You pay only on recovered value.

The numbers are real.

Industry estimates of points balances held by Canadian + US households.

$24B+

Estimated value of unclaimed loyalty currency in North American consumer accounts.

73%

Of programs revert balances to zero either at member death or after a fixed window.

$3,800

Median estate-level loyalty value Last Treasure Map identifies on a real discovery questionnaire.

How it works

Discovery, contact, recover, close out.

The whole flow is human-in-the-loop. Nothing leaves our system without explicit executor approval.

1
Sign the engagement agreement
5-minute form. Executor types their name, accepts the contingency rate (30% default), confirms what we will and will not do. Rate is locked at signing. Until this is in place we cannot contact any program on the estate's behalf.
2
Discovery questionnaire
Tell us about the deceased's travel patterns, credit cards held, grocery + gas spend, hotels they liked. Five minutes. We never ask for account numbers or passwords. Our scoring engine matches the answers against our knowledge base of 20 program policies.
3
Accept or reject candidates
You see every candidate program with a likelihood score and the reason it was suggested. You accept the ones to investigate. Each becomes a tracked asset in your case.
4
Letters drafted, you approve, we send
For each accepted candidate we draft a formal estate-handling letter using the program's published policy. You review and edit each draft. When you click "Approve and send," the batch goes out — via email with PDF attached, or queued for postal mail. Nothing leaves until you approve.
5
Replies tracked, recovery executed
Programs reply. We log every response against the right asset. When approved for transfer, redemption, or cashout, the value flows to the estate per the program's instructions. Some programs forfeit on death — those get a $0 line in the accounting with no fee due.
6
Close-out statement filed
When every asset is resolved, you mark the loyalty workstream closed. We generate a Letter-size accounting statement: per-asset gross, program fees, our fee, net to estate. You file it with your estate accounting; we invoice the contingency fee separately.
Our knowledge base

20 programs on day one. More monthly.

Every program in our knowledge base has its estate-handling policy on file — sourced from the program's own terms or help center, dated, and verified. We never invent policy.

Canadian programs

  • AeroplanAir Canada
  • AIR MILESBMO / LoyaltyOne
  • PC OptimumLoblaw / Shoppers Drug Mart
  • Scene+Scotiabank / Cineplex / Sobeys
  • Triangle RewardsCanadian Tire
  • Petro-PointsSuncor / Petro-Canada
  • Esso Extra (historical)Imperial Oil
  • Amex Membership Rewards (Canada)Amex Bank of Canada

US programs (cross-border estates)

  • American AAdvantageAmerican Airlines
  • Delta SkyMilesDelta Air Lines
  • United MileagePlusUnited Airlines
  • Southwest Rapid RewardsSouthwest Airlines
  • Marriott BonvoyMarriott International
  • Hilton HonorsHilton
  • IHG One RewardsInterContinental Hotels Group
  • World of HyattHyatt
  • Amex Membership Rewards (US)American Express
  • Capital One RewardsCapital One

Don't see a program your loved one used? Tell us. We add programs continuously, and we can research a one-off case while we add the policy to our knowledge base.

Pricing

No recovery, no fee.

Contingency-based, signed engagement, transparent close-out statement filed with the estate accounting.

What you get on every case
  • Discovery questionnaire + LLM-ranked candidate accounts
  • Formal request letters drafted per program's published policy
  • Operator approval on every batch before any send
  • Reply tracking + status timeline per asset
  • Per-asset accounting (gross / program fees / our fee / net to estate)
  • Close-out statement PDF for the estate file
  • Audit trail of every action, sealed in the case file
  • No login automation. No credential storage. No impersonation.

The rate is locked at signing and snapshotted in the engagement agreement. We will never retroactively change the rate on value already recovered. If a rate renegotiation is needed mid-case, the existing agreement is voided and the executor signs a fresh agreement at the new rate.

What we will NOT do

The boundary is the product.

  • We do NOT log into the deceased's loyalty-program accounts.
  • We do NOT store usernames, passwords, or recovery phrases — for any program, ever.
  • We do NOT impersonate the deceased in any correspondence.
  • We do NOT provide legal, tax, financial, probate, or estate-administration advice.
  • We do NOT send program correspondence without per-batch executor approval.
  • We do NOT invent program policy — every claim is sourced + dated.

Common questions

What if you don't recover anything?

You owe nothing. The engagement agreement makes this explicit: the fee applies only to net recovered value. Programs that forfeit on death (Delta SkyMiles, PC Optimum, Triangle Rewards, Southwest, etc.) get recorded in the close-out statement at $0 with no fee.

Why is the rate 30% — that seems high?

Contingency-based recovery for points/miles is specialized work — every program has its own policy, deadline, documentation requirements, and contact channel. We've done the research, codified the procedures, and absorb the cost of unsuccessful recoveries. Comparable estate-asset-recovery services (unclaimed bank accounts, missing insurance policies) charge 25–40%. The rate is configurable per engagement; ask us about lower rates on high-value cases.

How fast does this happen?

Discovery + first request letters: 1–2 weeks. Program responses: typically 2–8 weeks per program. Recoverable transfers/redemptions: 1–4 weeks once approved. A typical case closes within 3–6 months. Programs with hard windows (Petro-Points 90 days, Hilton 1 year) we file inside the deadline.

Do you need the executor to share account passwords?

No. We never ask for and never accept loyalty-program credentials. Every program interaction uses the published estate process: executor authority, death certificate, probate documents. If the deceased preserved account numbers in their will or in a Treasure Map™, that's helpful but optional.

Is this only for Last Treasure Map customers?

No. We'll work loyalty recovery for any estate — whether the deceased used Last Treasure Map or not. Existing executor-portal users get a smoother integration; everyone else starts with a simple intake call.

What documents do you need?

Death certificate, executor authorization (probate / certificate of appointment / letters), executor government ID. Some programs ask for more (a copy of the will excerpt naming a beneficiary, an affidavit of intent, etc.) — we handle those program-by-program.

You'll never know what's there until you look.

The discovery questionnaire is 5 minutes. No commitment, no fee, no obligation — we'll tell you what's likely there before you sign anything.

No recovery, no fee.
30% of net recovered value.
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