Helmed takes the Handoff tab out of every kit workbook and puts the whole business on one page, oldest and most expensive first. It runs in your browser, it has no account, and nothing you connect to it is uploaded. It ships inside The Complete Standard, $495.
Written by JD Davenport, who still sells for a living.
Four kits answer four questions well and none of them can see the others. Helmed is the part that looks across all four, because the question whoever runs the place actually has on the first of the month is not how is job costing or how is production.
Of everything that went wrong this month, which part of the business cost me the most, and is it the same part as last month?
You cannot get that from four separate files, because the answer is a comparison across them. A job that lost money shows up in job cost. The reason it lost money is usually in production or in the estimate. Whether the person who sold it got paid on a number that was never true is in commission. Four files, one answer, and a comparison somebody holds in their head is the definition of a thing that stops happening in a busy March.
Every workbook in every kit ends at a tab called Handoff. It is a small block, the same shape everywhere, that says what that file found: how many, how much, how old the oldest one is. It exists because a number that has to be copied by hand is a number that goes stale.
Helmed reads that tab and nothing else. Rename a column, insert a row, restyle a whole workbook, and it still works, because the only thing it looks for is the block whose shape it knows. It reads the cached results that Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets all write when you save.
A workbook that has never been opened has no cached results. Helmed says so, by name, instead of printing a zero. A blank is a different fact from a missing file, and a board that shows you the same number for both is worse than no board.
| It has no | Which means |
|---|---|
| Server | There is nowhere for your figures to go. Not a policy. There is no endpoint to send them to. |
| Account | Nothing to sign up for, nothing to forget the password to, nothing that locks you out of your own numbers. |
| Database | Your workbooks are the record. The board is a reader, not a second copy of the truth that drifts away from the first one. |
| Monthly fee | Nothing expires and nothing phones home. Buy it once, keep the file, and it works on the day you open it in four years. |
You may host it on your own domain for your own business. The website version is in the box, as a folder you upload.
Helmed reads workbooks. If none of the kits are installed, it has nothing to read and it will tell you that rather than drawing an empty board.
The install order in the box puts it fifth on purpose: connect it once the workbooks have something in them. A board wired up to four empty files is a week spent learning that it works, followed by a month of looking at zeros.
Helmed is not held back to force a bigger sale. It is that a board with one workbook behind it is a worse version of that workbook. The whole of its value is the comparison across four, so selling it alone would be selling something that does not do the thing it is for.
It ships with The Complete Standard, which is all four kits, both books, the seven AI prompts and the install order. $495.
Instant download. Yours to keep. No monthly fee.