Solutions / Founders / CTOs

Run founder work through ceilings, approvals, and receipts.

Founder and CTO teams can let agents draft real business work while HELM keeps code, money, messages, and production actions behind policy, P0 ceilings, approval, and receipts.

Audience

solo operators, agentic startups, and founder-CTOs putting agents into real workflows.

  • founder operating system
  • agent approval boundary
  • founder CTO governed AI
  • Company AI OS

Objection

Speed is not the same as authority.

A startup can move faster with agents. Company authority still needs ceilings, approval, and proof.

Workflow

Production-change approval workflow

An agent drafts a production configuration change from an incident and a founder request.

Founders / CTOsaction boundary
StageBoundary detail
DraftThe agent produces a change proposal with source links, risk, and rollback notes.
ReviewThe founder or CTO approves the exact effect, not a general permission to deploy.
GateHELM checks actor, policy, approval, target system, and proof requirements before dispatch.
RecordThe allowed or denied action writes a receipt for later review.

Proof artifact

Founder proof path

Founders / CTOs mechanism demo

AI proposes workflow work. HELM decides whether it may run. The receipt makes the decision checkable later.

ESCALATET2 / pending review
ProposeDecideReceipt
Deploy workflowESCALATE · prod_deploy.v2 · rcpt-demo-26fae4c3

Tamper detectable: changing the verdict produces a different receipt.

FAQ

Founders / CTOs FAQ

Can a founder use HELM before the reviewed-access company layer is generally available?

HELM AI Kernel is public. HELM AI Enterprise is reviewed access for teams with real action boundaries to map.

Does HELM let agents deploy autonomously?

Only if policy, approval state, connector scope, and proof requirements allow the specific action. Otherwise HELM denies or escalates.

Next step

Move from reading to review.

Use public HELM AI Kernel for developer evaluation. Use reviewed access for company architecture review.