About Helm

Helm is a productivity application for people managers — directors, team leads, and anyone with a handful of direct reports. It gives managers one calm place to see what every person on their team is working on, what's open and who owes it, what they themselves promised, and what has quietly gone stale.

Why it exists

Most teams already have a work tracker. Those tools are excellent at tracking the work — tickets, sprints, releases — and terrible at tracking the management of the work: the one-on-one agendas, the "check on this Thursday" promises, the things you're waiting on from other people, and the running record of what was discussed and decided. Managers end up keeping that layer in their heads, in scattered notes, or nowhere.

Helm is that layer, made into software. It was built by a working engineering and analytics director to run his own team, and is shared so other managers can use it too.

What it includes

• A dashboard of overdue follow-ups, due-this-week items, personal commitments, and work that's going quiet
• Per-person pages with open items, projects, follow-up history, and a full 1:1 meeting record
• One-on-one meeting mode with per-topic notes and automatic agendas
• Follow-ups with dates and named contacts
• A daily "Today" focus list with carry-over
• A captain's log — a searchable, taggable daily journal

Technology

Helm is intentionally simple software: a fast, dependency-light web application served over HTTPS, with accounts isolated per user. There are no advertising trackers and no analytics scripts — see the Privacy Policy for details.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or account help: hugo.bucci@gmail.com.