A CEO we met was putting three years of company data into ChatGPT.
She could take that risk. Her analyst couldn’t.
So in most companies, AI speed follows seniority.
Local AI already exists. Helix makes it usable for a business.
AI on the data you can't put in the cloud.
Helix runs on your own computer. It keeps sensitive details local, waits for your approval at the boundary, and keeps a record of what left and who approved it. No AI team needed.
Free for 30 days · No card · Mac and Windows
How it works
The AI comes to your computer. You keep the keys.
Helix installs a local AI on your computer and works there. You decide what it reads. Anything it drafts passes you before it leaves. Out of the box, only an update check and a licence check go out on their own.
Every source starts offMail, files, calendar, chat: you switch on what Helix may read, and switch it off any time.
One morning with Helix
It noticed, answered and drafted. You pressed send.
The real app on a demo company. Watch one morning play, or pick a tab.
It does the work. You press send.
Autonomous inside. Approval at the boundary.
You don't prompt Helix. It runs on its own and stops where a person should decide.
How far it may go
The question every AI project has to answer
What left the machine, and who approved it?
Helix answers it on every item, from day one, without a governance team. That is what lets you use it on work that could not go to a cloud AI.
Every claim names its source. Click it, check it.
Approval at the boundary. Nothing it drafts leaves your computer until you say so.
A record you can verify. It shows if anyone changed it.
Helix · Meridian Controlson this computerNeeds you this morning
At risk
Cascade - Kestrel Machining has not confirmed the revised delivery date.
Kestrel-quote-rev3.pdf · line 14Waiting on you
Harbor - Elena Vasquez asked for the updated quote on Tuesday.
Mail · Elena VasquezGone quiet
Atlas - no reply from Marcus Reed for 9 days.
Mail · Marcus ReedWhere does Cascade stand?
[1] Kestrel-quote-rev3.pdf · line 14[2] Cascade-minutes.docx · line 8
This answer stayed on this machine
ToKestrel Machining
SubjectCascade - revised delivery date
Drafts wait for your approval
Transparency · today
Read 14 mail threadsstayed on this computer
AI call, local modelstayed on this computer
Follow-up to Kestrel Machiningleft · approved by Dana Whitfield
Update checkleft · automatic
Licence checkleft · automatic
hash chain intact · 5 of 5
Selected forBITSoM Vertex AI incubator (Top 25, Builders' Pitch Fest 2026) · Stanford Seed Spark, Cohort 13
Selected forBITSoM Vertex AI incubator (Top 25, Builders' Pitch Fest 2026) · Stanford Seed Spark, Cohort 13
Why we built Helix
Why nowAI runs on an ordinary laptop
Open models are now good enough to do real reading and drafting on the computer you already have. You don’t need a server to run it.
Why nowData is a board question
India’s DPDP Act puts the responsibility for personal data on the business. “We pasted it into a chatbot” is no longer an answer.
Who it’s for
One condition, not a size.
Your data can’t go to a cloud AI, and you have no AI team to work around it. Regulated work and owner-run firms come first.
Owner-run businesses
Companies of ₹10-500 crore, where the owner decides the data risk.
Start with your inbox: what needs a reply
Law and CA practices
Client files and mail you would rather not upload anywhere.
Start with finding anything in one client folder, with the source
Clinics
Letters, reports and mail that must stay in-house.
Start with the report you keep searching for
Manufacturers
Quotes, orders, drawings and supplier mail across many projects.
Start with the supplier who went quiet
Consultants
One person, many clients, a lot of calls to follow up.
Start with turning a call recording into tasks
Start small: mail, documents and reminders are plenty for the first week. Each person runs their own copy today; if you already have an AI team, you may not need us.
What it can do today
Give it a source. Get the work back.
The whole map, including what is still coming and what it does not do yet.
Give itHelix doesYou getStatus
Helix 1.7.2 for Mac, 1.6.17 for Windows. Mac gets each release first.
Why Helix, not just a local model
The model is the engine.
Helix is everything around it.
Running an AI model on your own computer is free and getting easier. Making it safe and useful for a business is the hard part, and that is what Helix does for you.
A local model on its own
- –Someone technical installs and tunes it
- –A chat box: it knows nothing about your work
- –Nobody decides what it may read or send
- –No record of what it did
Helix
- ✓Installs itself and picks a model that fits your computer
- ✓Reads the mail, files and recordings you switch on, and cites them
- ✓Runs through the day, drafts the work, and stops at your gate
- ✓Keeps sensitive details local, even if you add an online model
- ✓A record of every read, AI call and outbound call that shows if anyone changed it
Our interests match yours.
Helix sells no AI usage. The local model is free, and your own key for an online model carries no markup. Usage pricing rewards processing more of your data; with none, we do well when you get more done with less.
It keeps getting better
The next AI, without the next project.
AI changes every week. You shouldn’t have to. Helix takes in what is new, puts the same gates around it, and hands it to you ready to use.
Our commitmentNew AI inside Helix within seven days
When a new model or tool is released, we put it behind the same consent, gate and record, and ship it to you within seven days.
NextYour repeated work becomes a workflow
Today Helix drafts follow-ups, tracks orders and turns calls into tasks, with your gate on every step that matters. Next, it will notice the work you repeat and propose the workflow, so the work you hand an intern runs as an agent.
Price
Free for 30 days. Then the founding price.
Start before 31 December 2026 and keep the founding price for your first 12 months. Nothing is charged automatically: when your trial ends, you decide.
Founding price
₹799
/ computer / month · $10
Local AI included. Your own online key, no markup. Locked for 12 months.
Founding window31 December 2026
Standard price, from 2027
₹7,999
/ computer / month · $100
For everyone who starts after the founding window.
Try it on one folder.
A short setup from download to your first answer. Free for 30 days, no card.
01Download and open
Mac (1.7.2) or Windows (1.6.17). The app is not signed yet, so the first open asks once on either.
02Pick one folder
Start with one live project folder. Every source is off until you switch it on; Helix sets up its local AI meanwhile.
03Ask one question
"Summarise where things stand." Click a source to check it. If Today is still empty after ten minutes, give it a second folder.