The morning briefing.
Read on waking. Seven sentences or fewer. Helm's one job is to answer what actually matters today before you open Gmail.
Vol. I · No. 3 · Spring MMXXVI
A private office for your inbox, your calendar, and the thinking you do between the two. By invitation.
Plate I · How it works
Helm reads your inbox, watches your calendar, and keeps your notes. That’s it. It does not write for you, post for you, or speak on your behalf.
Read on waking. Seven sentences or fewer. Helm's one job is to answer what actually matters today before you open Gmail.
Five minutes before every meeting, a compact card: who's there, the gist of the thread, three things to raise. It disappears when the meeting starts.
Type a task the way you'd say it; Helm parses priority, people, and due dates, then files it where you can find it. Share without email.
Plate II · The Members’ Charter
No push notifications, no streaks, no engagement metrics. Helm should be the least-used tab in your browser and still the most valuable.
Helm never drafts an email for you, never replies, never schedules on your behalf. The hands on the keyboard are yours.
Every note, every task, every briefing exports to plain markdown. If Helm disappears tomorrow, you keep the work.
We cap membership. We price for seriousness. We do not run a free tier. Growth is the wrong measure of a club.
Your email and calendar are never used to train a model. Ever. Your data is yours alone — even from us.
The test of a Helm update: did it let the member close a tab? If not, we did not ship it.
Plate III · Architecture of trust
A plain-text answer to every question a careful member asks before signing in.
§ I · Reading
Helm requests Gmail and Calendar read scopes only. We cannot send, archive, delete, or schedule — and we would not, even if Google permitted it.
§ II · Residency
Email bodies are held in an encrypted read-only index for thirty days so briefings can reference recent threads. The index is never used to train a model — ours or anyone else's.
§ III · Exit
Every artefact exports to PARA-structured markdown in one click. Close your account and your vault downloads as a zip before the session ends.
§ IV · Audit
A monthly members' ledger shows you exactly which threads Helm read, which it surfaced, and which it set aside. Opt out at any time.
“The mark of a good assistant is not what they do when you ask — it is what you never need to ask.”Members’ Charter · § II
Plate IV · By invitation
Helm is not a product one buys on a whim. Leave your email and we’ll send a short application. We read every reply. We invite deliberately.
Membership is €48 / month, billed annually. No free tier, no trial — a fourteen-day return is offered after first invitation.