Helio

Helio is a workspace built around AI teammates that take long-term ownership of recurring work — not just answering questions, but running scheduled jobs, tracking tasks, and delivering output into the tools a team already uses. Based in San Francisco, Helio is available as a web app and as a downloadable desktop app for macOS and Windows.

What It Is

Helio positions itself in the emerging category of autonomous AI agents rather than copilots or chatbots. Each AI teammate in Helio has a name, a role, a model assignment, and a persistent memory — so it doesn't restart from zero each session. The core idea is that recurring work (reading updates, summarizing messages, following up on tasks, drafting replies) can be handed off to an AI teammate that owns it over time, rather than being re-prompted manually each day.

How the Teammate Model Works

Unlike a chatbot that answers and forgets, or a copilot that assists while a human drives, Helio teammates are designed to own a lane of work autonomously. Key capabilities include:

• Automation: Recurring jobs run on their own schedule (daily, weekly, or custom) without re-prompting.
• Memory: Teammates retain standards, context, past decisions, and preferences across sessions.
• Skills: Domain-specific methods for research, documentation, email, marketing, or support — rather than generic prompting.
• Tasks: Work progresses through a task board visible to the whole team, with status updates posted automatically.
• Artifacts: Reports and dashboards publish as persistent pages accessible by link, always showing the latest version.
• Inbox: Email-style work — reading, drafting, routing — handled in a dedicated inbox (in preview).
• Calendar: Scheduled reminders, reviews, and daily routines triggered at the right time.

Integrations and Platform Reach

Helio is designed to meet teams where they already work. Chat adapters connect AI teammates to Slack, Lark, Microsoft Teams, and Discord. Runtime and model support includes Claude Code, Codex, custom MCP servers, and Docker. Tool integrations cover Linear, GitHub, Vercel, Gmail/SES, Zoom, and Google Meet. This means AI teammates can read from and write back into the tools a team ships with, rather than staying confined to a single chat interface.

Approval and Control Model

Helio includes a human-in-the-loop approval layer for high-stakes actions. Anything sensitive — an external email, a deployment, a message sent on behalf of a user — is routed for one-click approval or editing before it executes, similar to reviewing a pull request. All activity remains visible in channel history, and users retain sign-off on outcomes.

Deployment and Access

Helio is accessible via the web at app.helio.im and as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows. Workspace setup is described as taking about a minute after sign-up. The platform supports a credit-based usage model where AI teammates spend credits as they work, with the display rate published as 200 credits = $1. Annual billing offers a 20% discount versus monthly billing, and the homepage notes model usage can be up to 76% cheaper on annual plans due to combined plan and usage discounts.