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No-AI core
The planner is plain arithmetic you can trust. AI is an optional, bring-your-own-model add-on. Never required, never in the critical path.
◎ Helm · personal OS
Your notes, tasks & calendar, finally one thing.
Helm is a private, self-hosted personal operating system. A task is a block on your calendar, scheduled by plain arithmetic, not a black box. Capture fast, see your day, and keep every byte on hardware you own.
A to-do list that respects your clock.
Most tools keep tasks and time in separate apps, so “plan my day” is manual every morning. Helm plans it deterministically: estimate a task, and it finds the block. No AI guessing, no surprises, fully undoable.
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Yours, on your box
Self-hosted (FastAPI + Postgres + a fast PWA). Private by default; your notes and schedule never leave your server.
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Capture at the speed of thought
Quick-capture with intent pills and voice, a Today view, notes-in-stacks, and web push. The friction gone from writing it down.
What's in the box
The whole day-loop, shipped: capture it, plan it, do it, and let your agents carry a share of it.
- Notes, tasks & calendar as one — a task is a time block
- Quick-capture with intent pills & voice capture; a multi-line paste becomes a task with sub-tasks
- Deterministic Plan Today / Plan Week — preview, confirm, one-tap complete
- Agent queue: send a task or note to Claude Code (bundled MCP server) or a local model; replies land back in a review lane
- Orgs, shared projects & share links — send a teammate a task; they accept, counter, or decline
- Bring-your-own-model assistant — Self-Hosted, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI; keys never leave your device
- Web push, plus morning & evening digests
- Odoo two-way sync (tasks & calendar)
- Google & Microsoft calendar sync — rolling out
- Daily Recap card + Recap analytics dashboard, all arithmetic, no model
Read the docs: Helm docs hub · Quick start
Own it. Optional AI, on your terms.
Free to self-host. Pay once for the pro workflows, or add the Odoo/business tier.
Core
Free
source-available · self-host
- Notes, tasks & calendar-as-blocks
- Quick-capture, Today view, dark mode
- Deterministic task planner
Self-host PRO
$79 one-time
includes 1 year of updates · waitlist open
- Everything in Core
- Organize Tasks (deterministic, undoable)
- Bring-your-own-model assistant
- Google & Microsoft calendar sync
- Web push & deeper insights
Business / Odoo
$199 one-time
or $19/mo
- Everything in PRO
- Odoo tasks & calendar sync
- Shared projects / multi-user
- Priority support
Run your day on something you own.
Self-host the core for free. PRO ships soon; the waitlist hears first.
The waitlist hears first
Self-host the core free today. Leave your address and you hear first when PRO ships, at the launch price.
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