Vigil.is replaces the spreadsheets, accountants, and manual paperwork that New York guardians rely on — with a single platform that handles financial compliance, care management, and court reporting for Article 81, Article 17, and Article 17‑A.
When a court appoints you as guardian, you inherit a legal obligation to file detailed financial accountings — every year, in a rigid statutory format, under penalty of court surcharge resulting in malpractice claims or personal liability. New York has three guardianship statutes, each with its own court, its own report structure, and its own filing cadence.
Most guardians piece it together with spreadsheets, a shoebox of receipts, and an accountant billing $750–$1,000 per ward per year. The accountant rarely understands the difference between an Article 81 annual accounting and a Surrogate's Court G-7. And none of them track care — the visits, medications, and service providers that are just as important to your ward's safety and well-being as the financial numbers.
Before Vigil.is, there was no software designed for any of this. Not for Article 81. Not for Article 17. Not for 17-A. Not for a single one of the workflows that define your obligations as a guardian.
| Alternative | Annual Cost | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheets | Free | Error-prone, no statutory format, days of manual work per ward |
| QuickBooks | $20–$275/month depending on plan | Cannot generate any guardianship report format |
| Accountant | $750–$1,000 | Financials only — no care tracking, no deadline alerts |
| Vigil.is | $400 | Purpose-built: financials, care, alerts, and court-ready reports |
Vigil.is handles financial compliance, care management, and court reporting — purpose-built for the three statutes that define New York guardianship law.
Article 81 initial, annual and final reports for Supreme Court. Nine-schedule G-7 forms for Surrogate's Court. The system knows which format your ward requires and generates it automatically — no reformatting, no guesswork.
Import bank and brokerage data via CSV. Transactions auto-categorize by statutory category. Multi-lot cost basis tracking with FIFO computation. Balance reconciliation catches errors before the court examiner does.
Guardian visit gaps, medical appointment lapses, medication refills, insurance renewals, filing deadlines — all monitored continuously and surfaced by severity before they become problems.
Log visits, track medications, manage insurance policies, maintain a provider directory. Every care event feeds directly into the annual report. The guardian's full scope of duty in one place.
Forecast how long the ward's estate will last based on current spending. A defensible basis for discussions with the court about care expenditures and long-term planning.
Navigate to a case on NYSCEF, click the extension, and import case metadata and document references into Vigil.is in one action. New ward activation in a single session.
Every screen, every workflow, every report format was designed around the actual obligations of a New York guardian — because the team that built it has lived them.
Managing 5–30 wards? Import data in minutes, not hours. Generate court-ready reports in the exact statutory format. Save $350–$650 per ward per year versus an accountant. Take on more cases with the same time investment.
Thrust into a compliance obligation you didn't fully understand? Vigil.is gives you a guided interface that produces the right report in the right format. For 17-A guardians, that means decades of annual filings — at a fraction of the cost of an accountant.
50–200+ wards across multiple statutes? A multi-ward dashboard with caseload-wide alerts, statute-aware behavior, and consistent output quality regardless of which staff member handles data entry.
One price. Every feature. No tiers, no add-ons, no surprises.
Billable to the ward's estate as an administrative expense. Less than half the cost of an accountant.
Vigil.is is currently accepting early access requests from New York guardianship attorneys. Join the waitlist and be among the first to move your practice from spreadsheets to a system built for the work you actually do.