Three reasons People Teams
choose Helm.
Automate manual HR work. Create employee moments that last. Build the organisational intelligence that helps leaders understand how work actually happens.
Use case 01
Stop spending hours on
document requests.
People Teams at 50-2,000 person companies process the same 5-8 document types over and over - manually drafted, chased for approval, emailed back and forth. Helm Docs eliminates that entirely.
Employees request documents through a self-service portal. Helm generates them instantly. A manager approves with one click. The employee downloads the finished PDF in minutes, not days.
Helm Docs - coming soonEmployment confirmation letters
Generated instantly from verified employee data. Used for rental applications, bank accounts and loan requests. Auto-approved or routed to manager - your choice.
Salary confirmation letters
Pre-filled with current compensation data. HR approval required by default. Audit trail created automatically. No sensitive data in email threads.
Visa support letters
Destination-specific language, employment confirmation and travel authorisation in one document. Generated in minutes, not days. Auto-assigned reference number.
Reference requests
Employees request, managers review and approve. Consistent format, full audit trail, no information leaking through informal channels.
Policy acknowledgements
GDPR, code of conduct, remote work policies - distributed, signed digitally and tracked to compliance. No spreadsheet required.
Full audit log
Every request, approval and download is logged immutably. Seven-year retention. HR admin can export at any time. GDPR-ready by design.
5 hrs
saved per People Team per week
<10 min
from request to download
60%+
of requests auto-approved
0
documents manually drafted
“I used to spend a Friday morning every two weeks on letter requests alone. With Docs, that time just disappears.”
Mei Tanaka
HR Operations · 340-person company
Use case 02
Employee moments that people
actually remember.
Culture isn't built in annual surveys or all-hands meetings. It's built in the small moments - a farewell that feels genuine, a promotion that the whole team celebrates, a first day that doesn't feel like being dropped in the deep end.
Moonboard handles the celebrations. Spotlight handles the recognition. Together they make employee experience feel intentional, not accidental.
Moonboard - live now · Spotlight - coming soonFarewell boards
One link. The whole team contributes - messages, photos, reactions. Presented as a slideshow. Kept as a Memory Book PDF. Set up in under two minutes.
Birthday celebrations
Automated reminders so no birthday is missed. Boards created and shared before the day. Remote teammates included equally.
Promotion announcements
Turn a Slack message into a moment the whole company is part of. Messages from across teams, captured and kept.
Work anniversaries
Auto-triggered from employee records. Boards created automatically. A five-year milestone that actually feels like one.
Peer recognition
Always-on Spotlight recognition tied to company values. Shoutouts that live on profiles - not buried in a Slack thread from three weeks ago.
Remote-first celebrations
No account needed to contribute. Works from any device, any timezone. Remote teammates are part of the moment in exactly the same way as those in the office.
2 min
to create a board
1 link
whole team contributes
∞
boards on Team plan
$0
to start, no card required
Priya R.
Five years of making the impossible look routine. It’s been an honour.
♥ 12
Sam K.
You made every launch feel calm. That’s a rare skill - use it well.
♥ 9
Aisha L.
The team you built will outlast you here. That’s the real legacy.
♥ 15
Tom C.
Shipping with you was the highlight of my time here. Thank you.
♥ 7
Use case 03
Ask questions your
HR system can't answer.
Who in the company knows Kubernetes? Which teams are isolated? Who would be a good mentor for a new engineer? Who is ready for a senior role?
These are questions every People Team and leadership team has. None of them can be answered by a directory, an org chart, or a performance tool. Atlas answers them - with confidence scores and evidence, not guesswork.
Crew + Atlas - roadmapExpertise discovery
“Who in the company knows GDPR compliance?”
Returns employees ranked by confidence - based on certifications, peer recognition, project contributions and skill tags - not just what they put on their profile.
Level 1 insightMentorship matching
“Who would be a good mentor for our new engineer?”
Atlas identifies candidates based on skill overlap, previous buddy assignments, mentorship signals and cross-team relationship edges - with evidence for each recommendation.
Level 2 insightOrganisational health
“Which teams are most isolated from the rest of the company?”
Cross-team collaboration edges, mapped from every signal source, reveal which parts of the organisation are well connected and which are operating in silos.
Level 2 insightSkill gap analysis
“Where does the product team have single points of failure?”
Skills held by only one person above a meaningful confidence threshold, surfaced before they become a problem - especially where mobility signals exist.
Level 2 insightSuccession planning
“Who is ready to step up into a senior engineering role?”
Readiness signals - leadership recognition, project ownership, mentorship activity, skill confidence - ranked by evidence. Human decision, supported by organisational data.
Level 3 - HR admin onlyRecognition patterns
“Which teams have gone quiet on recognition this quarter?”
Recognition flow across teams and departments, surfaced as a proactive Copilot card - before disengagement becomes visible in survey scores or exit interviews.
Level 2 insightAtlas - example query
↓ Why this recommendation?
How Helm learns
The graph builds itself. You just use the products.
This is what makes Helm different from buying separate tools for recognition, onboarding, documents and directories. Every Helm product feeds the same graph. The more you use, the smarter the graph becomes - without any extra effort.
01
You use Helm products
Create a Moonboard. Process a document request. Send a Spotlight recognition. Run a Showcase demo day. Each action is a workflow that solves a real problem.
02
Helm captures signals
Every action emits an organisational signal - a relationship, a skill, a milestone, a recognition, a lifecycle event. Passively. Automatically. Without asking anyone to fill out a profile.
03
Crew builds the graph
Signals accumulate into confidence-weighted edges between people, teams, skills and expertise areas. The graph grows in the background - visible in Crew, queryable in Atlas.
04
Atlas surfaces intelligence
When the graph is rich enough, Atlas answers questions no other tool can. Who knows what. Who collaborates with whom. Where the gaps and risks are hiding.
Why this is better than buying separate tools.
Every point solution you buy - a recognition tool, an onboarding platform, a directory - sits in isolation. Its data never talks to anything else. You end up with five sources of truth about your people, and a sixth problem: figuring out which one is right.
The employee lifecycle
How Helm covers every stage, from first day to farewell.
The employee journey arc is still how we think about product coverage. Every stage has a Helm product behind it - and every product feeds the same organisational graph.
01
Join
Launchpad
02
Learn
Launchpad + Learning
03
Connect
Crew
04
Contribute
Showcase
05
Grow
Compass
06
Be Recognised
Spotlight
07
Be Celebrated
Moonboard - Live
Start with Moonboard.
The graph starts building itself.
Every Moonboard message is a relationship signal. Every Docs request is a lifecycle event. By the time Crew and Atlas ship, your organisational graph is already populated. That's the platform advantage.
No card required. Free to start.