About Flow Estate
Our story, mission, and the team behind Flow Estate.
Our Story
Flow Estate was founded by Robert Skinner in 2025 after experiencing firsthand the challenges and inefficiencies of estate administration following his father's passing in 2024.
When Robert lost his father, he found himself navigating the complex, paper-heavy process of settling his estate. What should have been a time for grieving and remembrance became overwhelmed with administrative tasks, repeated phone calls, and mountains of paperwork.
"I was shocked by how fragmented and inefficient the process was," Robert recalls. "I had to notify dozens of organizations individually, fill out similar forms repeatedly, and spend countless hours on the phone. There had to be a better way."
With a background in technology and process improvement, Robert set out to build software that lets the people administering an estate enter its details once and work from one shared record.
Flow Estate is estate administration software for New Zealand law firms, with the executors and beneficiaries of each estate kept in the loop. Its aim is to reduce the administrative load on lawyers and families at an already difficult time.
Our Mission
Less paperwork at a hard time
Estate administration is paper-heavy and repetitive, and it happens while families are grieving. Flow Estate is built to take some of that weight off.
- Empathy First
Estate administration happens at a difficult time. We design Flow Estate to reduce stress, not add to it.
- Enter it once
Enter an estate's details once and reuse them in the court forms, notices and letters, instead of retyping them.
- The right people, the right access
Everyone on an estate sees what their role allows, and we look after the information we hold as our Privacy Policy describes.
Our Team
The people behind Flow Estate
Flow Estate was founded by Robert Skinner.
Robert Skinner
Founder & CEO
With a background in technology and his own experience of administering his father's estate, Robert leads Flow Estate.
Featured Service
NotifyFlow
NotifyFlow came straight out of Robert's experience. It prepares a formal notice of the death and emails it to each organisation chosen, instead of contacting each one separately.