Two tools rebuilt and handed over so far — each one a rented product our
client lived in, rebuilt around how they actually work, and owned
outright since the day the repo transferred. Both deeds are held by
their owners. Neither has paid a seat fee since.
rented+ add-ons+ per seatowned · $0
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Case 01 — Helm · project OS
rebuilt from an issue tracker — owned since handover
An issue tracker, rebuilt — with a product owner living inside it.
The client ran a 40-person product org on a tracker that had become a second
job: grooming rituals, plugin sprawl, a config nobody dared touch. We rebuilt
it as Helm — same board, none of the ceremony —
and gave it an AI Product Owner that holds the full context
of the project: every ticket, every decision, every dependency, every
estimate anyone ever made.
It writes the tickets. It runs the standup so nobody else has to. And it
catches scope drift while it’s still cheap —
three tickets quietly added since the estimate is a conversation on Tuesday,
not a surprise at the retro.
Replaces: the issue tracker + the add-ons + the rituals
Cost after handover: $0/seat/mo · owner: the client, forever
helm — payments v2 · sprint 14
Backlog
Refund flow edge cases
Chargeback dashboard (added after estimate)
SCA copy review
In progress
3-DS challenge UI
Ledger reconciliation
Done
Idempotency keys
Webhook retries
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Case 02 — Atelier · design OS
rebuilt from a design tool — owned since handover
A design tool, rebuilt — aware of the entire organization.
A design canvas that doesn’t start from zero. Atelier
is wired into the company it serves: the brand tokens, the live component
code, the flows that already shipped, the research that killed a pattern two
quarters ago. The canvas knows all of it while you draw.
Pick a blue that’s two shades off the token and it offers the
correction. Start sketching a checkout that already exists in production and
it shows you where. New designers inherit the organization’s
memory on day one — the file is never the only context anymore.
Replaces: the design tool + the plugin sprawl + the tribal knowledge
Both cases began the same way: two weeks inside the client’s real workflow, a keep list, a cut list, and a fixed number. Helm’s cut list was two-thirds of the rented tool’s surface area.
The intelligence is native, not bolted on.
The AI Product Owner and the org-context engine aren’t plugins — they’re why the rebuilds beat the originals. A tool built for one company can hold that company’s entire context. A platform built for everyone can’t.
Both clients hold their deeds.
Repos transferred, deploys under their names, teams trained. One kept us on a retainer; one didn’t need to. Both can cancel anything except their ownership.