The instrument panel for the people side of your job.
Whether you lead a team or you're heads-down on your own work, your work tracker already knows what's being built. Helm keeps the rest: your 1:1s, the follow-ups you're owed, the meeting notes, and what's quietly slipping through the cracks.
Built for managers and individual contributors. You pick which when you sign up.
You don't lose track of work. You lose track of what went quiet.
What it does
The morning glance
Open it, read three numbers: overdue, due this week, who you're waiting on. Then get on with your day. Nothing red means nothing's on fire.
1:1s that show up ready
Flag things for your next 1:1, with your team or your manager, as they come up. Sit down and the agenda's already written. Take notes against each point, hand out a follow-up, mark what you covered, move on.
Notes from every meeting
1:1s, team syncs, the ad-hoc thing that came out of an email. Each one gets a home. Paste the invite as context, take notes as you talk, tag who was there. It's all still there, and searchable, six months later.
Follow-ups that follow up
Every follow-up gets a date and a name. Let one slip and it goes red. You stop keeping a running list of who owes you what in your head.
A page for everyone you work with
One screen per person, whether it's a report, your manager, or a stakeholder: what they owe, what you owe them, what's overdue, and every 1:1 you've had. Come review time, it's already there.
A daily journal you'll actually keep
Jot down whatever crosses your desk: a hallway conversation, a decision, a half-thought. Helm threads it all into a journal by day. Tag a person with @, a topic with !, a theme with #, and it's yours to search forever.
It notices what you don't
The task stuck "in progress" since March. The thing you promised to circle back on. Helm flags what's going quiet before it bites you.
Two ways to run it
Same app underneath. You pick which when you sign up, and you can switch anytime.
Run your team
Run tight 1:1s, keep every follow-up on the hook, and log the day. The system remembers, not you.
- A talk-track per report that surfaces stale topics and open promises
- Follow-ups that resurface the moment they go overdue
- Meetings and a captain's log, tagged to people and topics
Fly solo
Track your topics, prep your 1:1 with your manager, and keep a daily log. The same teeth, just for you.
- Queue talking points for your next 1:1 with your manager
- Your topics and tasks in one place, with follow-ups that resurface
- A searchable daily log and notes from every meeting
Who it's for
Managers running a handful of people, and individual contributors staying on top of their own work and 1:1s. Mostly in engineering and analytics. You already live in a work tracker. This is for everything it doesn't hold: the agendas, the promises made in hallways, the memory of who said what.
It's not a project manager. No Gantt charts, no sprints, no story points. Your tracker already does that. Helm handles the part that's about people.
How it works
Sign in and pick your setup, whether you're running a team or flying solo. Add your people (or just your manager), and start throwing things in as they happen. Helm keeps the dates, builds your agendas, and taps you on the shoulder when something's slipping. There's not much to learn.