New York guardians rely on spreadsheets, accountants, and manual paperwork. Vigil.is replaces all of it. One platform for financial compliance, care management, and court-ready filings across Article 81, Article 17, and Article 17‑A.
When a court appoints you as guardian, you must file detailed financial accountings every year in a rigid statutory format. Failure means court surcharges, malpractice claims, or personal liability. New York has three guardianship statutes. Each has its own court, report structure, and 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 knows the difference between an Article 81 annual accounting and a Surrogate's Court G-7. None of them track care. Visits, medications, and service providers matter just as much 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 filings |
Vigil.is handles financial compliance, care management, and court-ready filings — 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, workflow, and report format was designed around the actual obligations of a New York guardian. The team that built it has lived them.
Import data in minutes, not hours. Generate court-ready filings in the exact statutory format. Save $350–$650 per ward per year versus an accountant. Take on more cases with the same time investment.
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.
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 accepting early access requests from New York guardians and attorneys. Join the waitlist. Be among the first to replace spreadsheets with a system built for the work you actually do.