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Free for 30 days · runs on your own computer

Try Helix on
your own work.

Download it, choose one folder or your mailbox, and Helix shows you what needs you today, with the source of every line. It drafts your follow-ups and asks before anything goes out.

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No card · Mac and Windows · about 10 minutes to set up

A Helix answer with numbered sources, worked out on this machine

Asked: "Summarise where things stand" · demo company

Four steps

From download
to your first answer.

  1. 1

    Download and open Helix

    2 min

    Mac or Windows (Mac gets each release first; Windows runs 1.6.17 today). The first open asks once because the app is not signed yet: on a Mac right-click Helix and choose Open; on Windows click More info, then Run anyway.

  2. 2

    Start your 30 days

    1 min

    Enter your name and email. No card and no account to create. The licence sits on this computer.

  3. 3

    Choose what it may read

    3 min

    Every source starts switched off. Sign in to Microsoft 365, or pick folders and files. Helix sets up its local AI engine as part of setup.

  4. 4

    Read Today

    minutes

    Start with one project folder and Today starts filling in within minutes. A whole mailbox takes longer, and Helix keeps reading in the background.

Once it has read

Do these four things first.

01

Click the first line on Today

It opens the email or file the line came from. That is how you check anything Helix tells you.

02

Ask a question

Try "Summarise where things stand", or "What is happening with" and the name of one of your projects. Each numbered source opens its document.

03

Open a project on the Board

If a project has stalled, Helix may already have drafted a follow-up. Improve it, then send it yourself when you are happy.

04

Open Transparency

See every AI call, where it ran, and every outbound call. Out of the box the only ones that leave are the update and licence checks.

The Helix Today view: counts, and the first items that need you, each with its source file
Today. Each line names the file it came from.
The Helix Transparency view: AI calls, where they ran, and outbound calls
The Transparency view. Every AI call, where it ran, and what tried to leave.

Before you start

What works today, and what doesn't yet.

Works today
  • Mac and Windows
  • Sets up its own local AI, sized to your computer
  • Microsoft 365: mail, files, calendar and Teams chat
  • Folders and files you pick
  • Today: what needs you, with the source of every line
  • Ask questions and get answers with numbered sources
  • Follow-up emails drafted for you to send
  • A board of your projects
  • Knowledge Map of projects, suppliers and people (Mac)
  • Transparency view of every AI call and every outbound call
  • Your own key for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, if you want one
Not yet
  • Google Workspace · built, being tested
  • Signed installers · removes the first-open warning
  • Windows on the latest release · Mac gets each release first
  • Team use · today each person runs their own copy
  • Independent security audit · planned

On Google? Google Workspace isn't available yet. Point Helix at a folder of your files for now; Google will come as an app update once testing is done.

Helix 1.7.2 for Mac, 30 September 2026 · Windows runs 1.6.17 · How Helix handles your data →

After you've tried it

Tell us three things, and get 10 more days.

01

What surprised you, good or bad?

02

What broke, or confused you?

03

Would you keep using it? Why, or why not?

Feedback sent from inside Helix adds 10 days to your trial, up to twice. You can also write to [email protected]. A blunt "this annoyed me" helps more than a polite "nice".

Connect one folder.
See what it finds.

Or see it work first.

Book a 30-min walk-through →

Free for 30 days · No card · Mac and Windows