The instrument panel for people managers.
Helm is a lightweight management tool for engineering and analytics leaders. Your work tracker knows what the team is building. Helm tracks the part that's actually your job: who owes what, what needs checking, and what's quietly slipping through the cracks.
Open HelmWork doesn't get dropped because it was forgotten — it gets dropped because nothing surfaced that it had gone quiet.
What Helm does
A dashboard that reads in a glance
Overdue follow-ups, commitments you made, things you're waiting on from others, and work that's going quiet — five numbers, scanned in seconds, many times a day.
1:1s that run themselves
Flag any task or project for someone's next one-on-one. When the meeting starts, the agenda is already built. Take notes per topic, set follow-ups on the spot, and every meeting becomes a searchable record.
Follow-ups with teeth
Every follow-up has a date and a person you're chasing. When the date passes, it turns red on your dashboard. Nothing relies on your memory.
A captain's log
Dump notes all day; Helm aggregates them by date into a scrollable, searchable journal. Tag with #hashtags and group related notes across weeks.
A "Today" list
Star what you'll do today and roll through it. Anything unfinished carries over tomorrow — keep it, or drop it back to the backlog.
Staleness, surfaced
Projects and tasks that haven't been touched or discussed in weeks are marked plainly. Decay is the one thing Helm uses its accent color for.
Who it's for
Helm is built for directors, team leads, and managers of small teams — especially in engineering and analytics — who run their team's delivery in a work tracker but have nowhere to manage the human side: one-on-one agendas, verbal commitments, follow-ups promised in hallways, and the running context of who said what, when.
It is deliberately not a project management suite. There are no Gantt charts, sprints, or story points. Helm tracks the management of the work, not the work itself.
How it works
Sign in, add your team members and the projects you're overseeing, and start capturing items — tasks, questions, promises, loose ends. Set follow-up dates with one click, build 1:1 agendas as things come up, and let the dashboard tell you each morning what needs your attention. Every conversation you log becomes part of a per-person history you can search when review season arrives.