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The operating system for your business

Run the quarter
without running after it.

Built by a career COO to run your business better.

A clear plan. An aligned team. The intelligence to see what needs to happen next.

~15%

More revenue per employee.

Improvement among Helm customers tracking revenue per employee as an objective.

2 quarters

A full year’s goals. Half the time.

One Helm customer achieved its annual goals in two quarters while running Helm.

Your quarter. In focus.
Helm leadership briefing showing quarter health, risks, and next moves
Michael Koenig, co-founder of Helm
Michael KoenigCo-founder, CEO. 3x COO.

Built from the operator’s seat

“Helm is the operating system I wish I’d had as a COO.”

I’ve been a COO three times across public and private companies. Leadership had strategy. Teams had work. Nobody had a reliable way to see whether execution was actually tracking.

Over 40 quarters, I refined an operating system for execution.

I stopped looking for the software I wanted and built it.

Helm brings those workflows into a system your team can use, with intelligence inside the work.

Michael

See the operating system in action

You know this feeling

Your strategy is clear.
Execution gets blurry.

The plan is in a deck. Progress is in Slack. The real story comes out in a meeting.

You shouldn’t have to reconstruct the company to know how it’s doing.

Helm brings the plan, the work, and the decisions into one operating rhythm.

01

Expert workflows

A repeatable way to run the quarter.

02

Company intelligence

Context that helps you see and act.

03

Operator support

Experienced people to help it stick.

The platform tour

A better way to run.
From plan to progress.

Follow one goal through the quarter. See how team input becomes intelligence, decisions, and better execution.

01 · Plan

A stronger plan, built together.

Bring your team into the planning process. Use AI to sharpen Goals and Initiatives, challenge assumptions, and resolve feedback before the quarter launches.

Current product screen · Plan
Shared planning workspace
Current Helm quarter planning workspace, with governing principles, team feedback stages, and Ask Helm

02 · Align

Connect the work before it starts.

Make ownership and progress visible. See how each commitment contributes to the plan, and where a dependency needs attention.

Current product screen · Align
Ownership and objective health
Current Helm objective health view showing an owner, Key Result health, a bright spot, and alignment

03 · Check In

Useful updates. A clearer operating record.

Capture progress, bright spots, blockers, and the next step. Keep the context behind the number, so a leadership conversation starts with what actually happened.

Current product screen · Check In
Weekly updates and trend history
Current Helm Key Result trend, open weekly check-in, and update history

04 · See

See what needs attention while there’s time to act.

The leadership briefing brings quarter health, risks, dependencies, and next moves together. Understand what changed without reconstructing the company in a meeting.

Current product screen · See
Leadership briefing
Current Helm leadership briefing showing quarter health, risks, dependencies, and next moves

05 · Decide

Turn a signal into the next move.

Ask Helm helps you explore the response: reframe the objective, nudge the owner, change ownership, or record a tradeoff. Keep the decision with the work.

Current product screen · Decide
Resolve drift and record the decision
Current Helm resolve drift dialog with options to message, reframe, change ownership, or accept drift

06 · Learn

Make the next quarter smarter.

Review where the plan held, where it changed, and what the results reveal. Carry the useful lessons forward with the operating record behind them.

Current product screen · Learn
Quarter review
Current Helm quarter review showing the route from the plan to actual results

New · Collaborative AI planning

Your team’s judgment.
A sharper starting point.

Bring the right people into the plan before the quarter starts. Let AI help them make it better.

01

Shape the Goals together.

Discuss the outcome, challenge assumptions, and resolve feedback in a shared workspace.

02

Refine the Initiatives with AI.

Use Ask Helm to make the work more specific and connect it to the outcomes that matter.

03

Review. Agree. Launch.

Your team owns the final plan. Keep the thinking behind it available as the quarter unfolds.

Explore the planning workspace

Slack + voice dictation

Less writing updates.
More useful updates.

Type where your team already works, or dictate what happened. Review a clear update before you send it.

In Slack

A short reply.
Useful company context.

Respond to your weekly check-in with progress, a blocker, and the next step. Keep the update connected to the work in Helm.

  1. Reply to the weekly prompt
  2. Review the update
  3. Send it into the operating record

With your voice

Say the messy version.
Send the useful version.

Dictate a rough update. Let Helm help organize your meaning into progress, blockers, and next steps, then review and edit the draft.

  1. Dictate what happened
  2. Refine and review the draft
  3. Send the high-quality Slack update
See where weekly updates go

The intelligence layer

Your company creates the context.
Helm connects the dots.

Goals, updates, dependencies, decisions, and learning belong together. Helm works across that record to help you understand what changed and what to do about it.

01 / UNDERSTAND

Know the real context.

Work with the company’s priorities, owners, history, and decisions inside the workflow.

02 / SEE

Find the signal.

Surface pace, drift, and ownership gaps while there’s still time to respond.

03 / ACT

Make the next move.

Explore the decision, act on it, and preserve why the plan changed.

Input → Intelligence → Signal → Decision → Action → Learning

What better operations can make possible

The outcome is
a better business.

“Execution runs without me chasing it.”
Brad HoosCEO
“Strategic priorities don't lose to client work anymore.”
Matt LeeCSO
“I know what we're focused on and why.”
Liam McDonoughEngineering

Start with a conversation

Don’t let Q1 of 2027
sneak up on you.

Use Q4 to identify what’s slowing your business down, clarify your priorities, and prepare your team for the year ahead.

50% off · Limited time$5,000standard rateOperating Diagnostic · $2,499 introductory rateA written operating assessment, prioritized 90-day recommendations, and a debrief with Michael.Offer ends .

Book a discovery callThe discovery call is free. No obligation to work together.

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