— Reviews & founding story
We're new. We won't pretend otherwise.
Velati launched in 2026. We don't yet have the kind of long-running review history a fifteen-year-old will-writing firm would. Here's who we are, who reviews the legal work, and how we're going to handle reviews as they come in.
The founders
A note from the founders
Velati exists because the wills our friends were being sold did not fit the families they actually had.
We started Velati after watching three close friends — a cohabiting couple of fourteen years, a blended family with children from both sides, and a single mother of two — try to get wills made. All three found the same thing: a flat-priced high-street will that didn't ask the right questions, or a questionnaire on a generic platform that didn't recognise their household at all.
The legal templates are not the problem. The problem is the gap between the questionnaire and the family. Velati is an attempt to close that gap — to ask the right questions, to write back what the will actually does in plain English, and to do it for a price that doesn't punish people for having complicated love.
We are deliberately small. We don't have an office, a sales team, or a marketing budget. We do have a regulated solicitor who reviews every template before it goes live, a careful questionnaire built around real cases, and a commitment to treat the document — and the reader — with the seriousness the moment deserves.
The Velati founders
London & Manchester · 2026
We don't publish portraits — the work, not the founders, is what we'd like you to assess.
— Legal review
Every template reviewed by a regulated solicitor.
Velati partners with a private-client solicitor regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) of England & Wales. Every will template — and every change to it — is reviewed and signed off before it can be issued to a customer. We can name our partner firm by email on request; we don't publish the name on the marketing site to avoid implying that customers receive a personal solicitor relationship as part of the standard service. They do not. The service is template-based; the review is template-level.
Velati Ltd itself is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the SRA. Will-writing is unregulated in England & Wales — which is one of the reasons we publish so openly about how the legal work actually gets done. See our terms for the full position.
— How we'll handle reviews
Three rules we've made for ourselves before the first review goes live.
We won't fake the early reviews.
Most new services launch with five-star testimonials from people you can't find on the internet. We refuse to do that. This page will fill up over the next few months as real customers complete their wills and choose to write about it.
Every review is verified by a real order.
When we do publish reviews, each one will be tied to a real, paid order in our system. We won't allow anonymous submissions and we won't edit for tone — only for personal details the reviewer asks us to redact.
The bad ones get published too.
If someone finds the questionnaire confusing, or the signing pack unclear, that's something we need to know — and so do you. We'll publish considered criticism alongside the praise.
No reviews yet
This is where the first verified reviews will appear.
When you complete a will with Velati, we'll invite you to write about the experience. Until then, we'd rather show you an honest empty page than a populated one we couldn't stand behind.