Absorb the Bottleneck. De-Risk the Team.
Without Another Senior Hire.
Helix is an agentic AI workforce that stabilizes the run-the-business work — the steady stream of small, repetitive, easy-to-drop tasks that quietly hold a team together. Not a prototyping or POC tool — built so 20–200 person teams de-risk key-person concentration without another senior hire.
The Problem
- 20–200 person teams run on one or two key contributors who gate everything.
- Turbulence (departures, leave, overload) takes the whole team offline.
- Productivity copilots make seniors faster; nobody absorbs the bottleneck itself.
- Hiring another senior FTE is slow, costly, and rarely available in time.
The Solution
Agents that reliably run the business.
- Ember — captures team knowledge so it accumulates instead of evaporating.
- Compass — triages incoming requests, sharpens them into clear work, and keeps the work flowing.
- Forge — absorbs the steady stream of smaller, repetitive build work autonomously.
Target Customer (ICP)
- Size: 20–200 person teams with key-person risk.
- Buyer: Founder, COO, or dept head — signs without procurement.
- Trigger: One contributor gates the team; no fast backfill.
Value & Pricing
- Senior FTE cost ≈ $100/hr+[1] loaded; bottleneck drag $1–2K/mo.
- Preview tier: $2.5K/mo — replaces bottleneck cost + unlocks team.
- Standard tier: $5K/mo — repeatable mid-market revenue.
- Sits in the mid-market zone — below seat-based copilots, above point tools.
12–18 Month Roadmap
Captive Deployments
Ship Helix into Spark's captive portfolio. Full control over the rollout, no NDAs, no customer permissions needed to share what we learn.
Paid Design Partners
2–6 paying preview customers at $2.5K+/mo. Sells on product + Phase 1 proof. Becomes our first outside references — customers with no Spark ties.
SMB Scale + Enterprise
Standard tier at $5K/mo + early enterprise lean-in. Repeatable revenue and formal security posture. International expansion (EU/UK) gated on Series A.
Why Now
- Agentic AI is finally reliable enough to absorb the steady, repetitive work that quietly drains teams — not just suggest fixes, but actually handle it.
- The next layer is orchestrated AI workers that stabilize run-the-business work alongside the copilot stack — not replacing builders, but keeping the noise from burying them.
- Mid-market teams are squeezed on hiring and exposed to key-person risk; the smaller, "annoying" work is where things rot first.
- An AI workforce designed to stabilize a team — not just speed up the experts — is a defensible position to take before the category locks in.
Why Spark
- Founder-led, with deep agent-runtime expertise — engineering is our home turf.
- Dual-portal control plane already built (Nucleus + Client) — not a prototype.
- Captive deployments live today — shipping PRs, capturing knowledge, and triaging work daily.
- Architecture designed from day one to extend beyond engineering.