A private room for the people who run the business.
Helm brings founders, owners and department heads into one encrypted space: leadership chat, expense approvals, your own calendar, a personal assistant who can manage it, and a founders' club. You run it by voice.
Free during the beta · Android 9 and newer · About 11 MB
Built for the top table
For the people whose time costs the most. Not for everyone on payroll.
Helm is deliberately small: owners, co-founders, department heads, their personal assistants and trusted advisors. Fewer voices, faster decisions.
Family businesses
The owner, the next generation and the people running each unit, on one private line, with approvals the owner signs off.
Startups
Founders and heads of Marketing, Finance and Product. Projects and departments that mirror how you actually run.
Large companies
The leadership circle of a business unit, with roles, a full activity log and nothing shared outside your own server.
Run it by voice
Say it once. Helm handles it.
Pick your own wake word. Helm understands names, teams, amounts in lakh and crore, dates and times. It works the same way every time; there's no AI guessing in the loop.
- Message Ravi: the client signed, send the invoice todaySent to Ravi Menon. End-to-end encrypted.
- Add expense 1,200 rupees Uber, client visitSent 1,200 rupees to Prootto for approval.
- Approve Priya's expenseApproved Priya's 8,400 rupees. 2 still waiting.
- Schedule budget review with Finance tomorrow at 11Scheduled. Invited 3 people.
- Read my messagesNeha in Leadership: board deck is final…
Inside Helm
Everything a leadership team needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Leadership chat
Group chats for the whole leadership, each project and each department, created for you. Private one-to-one chats. Priority pings for what can't wait.
Up to 5 priority pings a day, so they keep their meaning.
Approvals
Anyone adds an expense by voice or by tap. The owner, or whoever they trust with approvals, approves or rejects with a reason.
“Reject Ravi's expense because there's no receipt.”
Your own calendar
Meetings, invitations, replies and reminders ten minutes before. Appoint a personal assistant who can manage your calendar, and you can manage theirs.
Every change shows who made it.
Projects and departments
Create a project like Prootto, add Marketing, Finance and Operations, and place each head by their Helm ID.
Department chats follow who's in the department.
Founders' club
Connect with other founders by Helm ID. Invite-only: both sides accept. Introduce two of your connections; both must agree. Private circles for your inner table.
No feed. No public profiles.
Reports
Spend by project, department, person and category. Meeting hours. Tasks done. Exported to PDF or CSV on your phone, shared only when you choose.
Built from your data, on your device.
Private by design
Your conversations are yours. Even we can't read them.
- End-to-end encrypted chatsMessages are locked on your phone and only unlocked on the phones of the people in the chat. The server stores scrambled text.
- Your own serverHelm runs on the organisation's own hosting, here at escapeplan.in. No Google, no ad networks, no outside services.
- Locked on the phoneFingerprint or screen lock to open, hidden from recent apps and screenshots, and notes that never leave the device.
- Instant removalWhen someone leaves, the owner removes them and their access to chats, calendar and expenses ends straight away.
Get started
Ready in two minutes.
Download
Tap Download for Android on your phone.
Install
Open the file. If Android asks, allow installs from your browser, then tap Install.
Create your Helm ID
Pick a password, save your recovery code, choose your wake word. Then create your organisation or share your ID.
Invitation only
Request an invitation.
Tell us who you are and we'll get back to you. Your details stay on Helm's own server.