Helium AI
The Enterprise AI Operating Layer
One platform.
Every model.
Zero lock-in.
An orchestrated, governed, role-aware workspace that ends single-LLM dependency for businesses of 50 to 5,000, and scales to enterprises on-premises.
Document
Strategic Brief
Category
AI OS Platform
Year
2026
A Product By
Neural Arc Inc.
Helium AI · Confidential
Section I
What you're already hearing from portfolio CEOs
The bills are real.
The frustration is louder.
Open LinkedIn this week. You'll find founders, CTOs, and finance leads posting actual invoices, actual frustrations, and actual numbers. The Images on the right are not a stock illustration. It is the conversation happening across the mid-market right now.
◆Invoices crossing $100K/month without budget approval
◆Rate limits and timeouts mid-workflow
◆Hallucinations confidently shipped as fact
◆No way to audit, attribute, or govern any of it
Real posts. Real titles. Real bills. Names blurred for privacy as marked in source.
The Reality · What the Market Is Saying
Section II
What the market still hasn't solved
Enterprises are marrying one model
and paying for the wedding every day.
The current AI stack forces single-vendor exclusivity, fragments context across every prompt, ignores team structure, refuses to integrate with legacy systems, and leaves no audit trail. Five gaps. Every one of them ours to close.
i.
Single-LLM lock-in
Enterprise exclusivity deals with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Microsoft force every task, trivial or strategic, through one heavyweight model. Token costs balloon. Dependency deepens. Switching becomes painful.
ii.
Context is never persistent
Your business context resets at every prompt, every chat, every tool. Teams re-explain who they are, what they do, and what they've decided, thousands of times a week.
iii.
No team-grade collaboration
No major LLM gives a team a coherent shared knowledge base with role-based access. Mid-market and enterprise both suffer. Without shared context, AI output quality collapses.
iv.
Integration is a closed garden
Custom integration with legacy ERPs, CRMs, internal databases, and industry-specific tools is shallow or non-existent. AI lives in a sandbox; the business lives outside it.
v.
Zero governance, zero audit, growing shadow AI
Current platforms cannot tell you which prompt referenced which document, which employee did what, or whether sensitive data left the building. Meanwhile, employees use unsanctioned AI on personal accounts. A compliance time bomb already ticking in every enterprise.
The Gap · Five Structural Failures
Section III
Introducing
A single workspace that orchestrates the entire AI stack.
Governed, integrated, and owned by you.
α
Multi-Model Orchestration
Our proprietary orchestrator routes each prompt to one of 16+ LLMs based on task weight, cost, and capability. Always backed by the best frontier models in the background, automatically.
β
Shared Knowledge Base with Role-Based Access
One persistent context for the whole team, with permissions mirrored from your org chart. Finance sees finance; legal sees legal.
γ
Personal and Company Workspaces, One Platform
Employees get a private personal section the company cannot see. Kills the shadow AI habit without invading privacy.
δ
Auditable Report
Every prompt, source, model call, and employee action is logged. Full governance trail for SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and beyond.
The Helium Stack
v1.0 / 2026
Layer 01
User Interface Teams, Roles, Personal Workspaces
▼
Layer 02
Knowledge Base Shared context, RBAC, Integrations
▼
★ Core
Helium Orchestrator Routes tasks to the right model
▼
Claude
GPT
Gemini
Llama
Mistral
Grok
DeepSeek
Qwen
+8 more
▼
Layer 04
Governance and Audit Every prompt logged, every source cited
Solution Architecture · Helium Teams
Section IV
Our defensible moat
Right model. Right task.
Right cost. Always.
Heavyweight LLMs charge heavyweight prices for lightweight tasks. Our orchestrator reads every prompt, identifies its true weight class, and routes it across 16+ models. Cost down. Quality up. Always backed by the best frontier models in the background, no matter which one is newest this week.
45–60%
Token cost reduction observed in deployed environments vs single-LLM baseline.
16 models
Currently orchestrated. Frontier, open source, multimodal, specialist, and on-prem.
Task-weight detection at the prompt level
Capability-aware routing (code, vision, long context, structured output)
Cost ceiling controls per workspace, role, and project
Failover and self-healing across providers
Bring-your-own-model and on-prem-model support
You never need to wonder which model is best this week.
Helium picks. Helium routes. Helium evolves.
Helium picks. Helium routes. Helium evolves.
Proprietary Orchestrator · The Core Moat
Section V
What nobody else has built
A common brain for your team.
With strict permissions, total audit, zero leakage.
Every other AI platform treats the employee as the unit. Helium treats the team as the unit. Same knowledge base. Role-based access. Every prompt logged against every user. This is the workspace layer the entire AI category forgot to build.
One common brain for the team
A persistent shared knowledge base ingests your docs, conversations, decisions, and SOPs. Every team member queries the same source of truth. No more re-explaining context.
Role-based access, mirrored from your org
Finance sees ledgers. Legal sees contracts. Sales sees the CRM. Permissions enforced at the document, conversation, and prompt level. No accidental data crossover.
Fully auditable, per user, per prompt
Every prompt logged with sources referenced, model invoked, output produced, timestamp, and user identity. Drillable reports for compliance, security, and HR.
Personal section, invisible to the company
Each employee gets a private workspace the company cannot inspect. Same platform, two contexts. Shadow AI dies here, not employee privacy.
Team Workspace · The Category Nobody Built
Section VI
Where we stand
The only platform that does all of it.
In one place. With your governance.
| Capability | Helium AI | OpenAI | Anthropic | MS Copilot | Manus | Genspark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams Workspace with shared brain & RBAC | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Multi-model orchestration (16+ LLMs) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ~ in-family | ~ limited | ~ limited |
| Auto cost optimization per task | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Personal + company workspace split | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Custom legacy system integrations | ✓ | ~ via API | ~ via API | ~ MS stack only | ✕ | ✕ |
| Full audit trail (prompt to source to output) | ✓ | ~ partial | ~ partial | ~ partial | ✕ | ✕ |
| On-premises / private deployment | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ~ Azure only | ✕ | ✕ |
| Autonomous self-healing agents | ✓ Hermes x Bees | ~ Operator | ~ Computer Use | ~ Studio | ✓ | ~ limited |
| Vendor neutral (no exclusivity risk) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
✓ Native capability
~ Partial / restricted
✕ Not supported
★ Highlighted row = category-defining capability unique to Helium
Competitive Position · Category Creation
Section VII
The autonomous layer
When orchestration isn't enough,
Hermes x Bees does the work itself.
Hermes x Bees is Helium's autonomous agent architecture. Self-healing, orchestrator-backed, grounded in your knowledge base. Switch on as a premium add-on. Deploy as a digital teammate.
Self-healing execution & Healing
Agents detect failure, reroute via the orchestrator, retry with a different model, and recover without human intervention.
Grounded in your context
Every action is anchored in the company knowledge base. No hallucinated decisions, no rogue actions.
Multi-step autonomous workflows
Research, draft, decide, execute, and report across systems your humans already use. Built for back office, ops, sales, and analyst work.
Premium value-add SKU Coming Soon
Hermes x Bees attaches to any Helium Teams workspace. Higher ARPU. Stickier deployment. Stronger expansion economics.
Hermes x Bees Architecture · Autonomous Agents
Section VIII
Who we serve
Three motions. One platform.
Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid.
B2B · CORE
Mid-Market
Mid-Market
50 to 5,000
Primary motion
Mid-sized businesses adopting AI seriously for the first time. Need governance and team coherence from day one. Highest conversion velocity, fastest payback.
→ Cloud-hosted · Multi-tenant
B2E · ENTERPRISE
Large
Large
Enterprise
Highest ACV
Multi-location, international, regulated. Strict governance, data residency, internal model preferences. Deployed on enterprise infra or fully on-premises with locally-approved models.
→ On enterprise infra · On-premises
B2C · INDIVIDUAL
Power
Power
Individuals
Funnel · awareness
Individuals who want one subscription instead of five. Drives top-of-funnel brand awareness and creates bottom-up enterprise pull. Not the focus, but it compounds.
→ Cloud-hosted · Self-serve
"Shadow AI inside the enterprise is no longer a future problem. It is a present liability. Helium is the only platform built to absorb it without restricting employees."
Internal Thesis · 2026
Go-to-Market · Three Motions
Section IX
Where we stand today
Already in market.
Already paying.
We are not pitching a thesis. Helium is shipping, customers are deployed, partners are co-selling, and users are paying. The category is just opening up, and we are already inside it.
i.
$9.37M
Sales Pipeline
Active pipeline co-developed with channel and technology partners. Validated, not cold.
ii.
73,000+
Users on Platform
Real users engaging with Helium today across individual and team workspaces. Engagement compounding monthly.
iii.
4 live
B2B Clients on Teams
Enterprise customers deployed and paying on Helium Teams. Reference-able, expandable, contracted.
"Most enterprise AI pitches still begin with 'imagine if'. Ours begins with a customer list."
Helium AI · 2026
Traction · Live Deployments & Pipeline
Section X
The numbers behind the conviction
A category-defining window.
Open now. Closing fast.
Capital is consolidating around enterprise AI. The infrastructure layer is being claimed. The orchestration and governance layer is still up for grabs, and only one platform is shipping all of it.
Cost Reduction
52%
Average token cost saving in customer deployments vs single-LLM baseline.
Models Orchestrated
16+
Frontier, open source, multimodal, and on-prem models, all routed automatically.
Target Segment
50–5K
Mid-market employees, the sweet spot underserved by both startups and hyperscalers.
Deployment Modes
3×
Cloud, on enterprise infra, on-premises. Every governance posture covered.
A $1.5B joint venture was just announced to embed a single LLM into mid-size company operations. That validates the market. Helium serves it without the lock-in.
Market Signal · May 2026
Traction & Market Timing
Section XI
Why partner with Helium
We're not betting on a model.
We're betting on every model.
01
Vendor neutral by design
As frontier models commoditize and compete, our value compounds. We win when the model landscape gets messier.
02
Built for the portfolio operator
Mid-market and enterprise companies, exactly the operating profile of PE-backed businesses, are our primary customer.
03
Hard-to-replicate moat
The orchestrator is years of routing logic, evaluation infrastructure, and cost optimization. Not a wrapper, an operating layer.
04
Governance as a feature, not an afterthought
Audit, RBAC, on-premises, shadow AI elimination. Table stakes for regulated industries. We ship them by default.
05
Expandable revenue surface
Teams → Hermes x Bees Agents → Enterprise on-premises. Three SKUs, one platform, compounding ARPU.
Let's talk
The next category leader in enterprise AI.
Deploy across portfolio companies as a single, governed AI layer
Capture the orchestration value the hyperscalers cannot
Hedge against single-vendor exposure as the model market reshuffles
Co-create the audit and compliance standard for enterprise AI
We're opening a focused round to scale go-to-market and harden enterprise deployment.
→ HE2.AI
A PRODUCT BY NEURAL ARC INC.
→ HE2.AI
A PRODUCT BY NEURAL ARC INC.
Helium AI by Neural Arc Inc. · Confidential · 2026
Section XII
Behind Helium AI
Built by operators who've shipped,
scaled, and led at the highest tier.
Neural Arc is building the intelligence infrastructure layer for the enterprise AI era. Enabling organisations to govern, orchestrate, and operationalise AI across the entire enterprise through a single, unified intelligence system.
AT
Aniket Tapre
Founder & CEO
- 26+ years of experience in building products and scaling businesses
- Multiple successful exits across Telecom, Security, SaaS, and Healthcare
- Architect of Helium AI and Neural Arc's product vision
- Track record of identifying market opportunities and structuring scalable businesses
Vision · Strategy · Product
SP
Sheetal Patole
Co-Founder
- 24+ years in AI and data leadership
- Former CDO & CIO at Barclays, CDAO at Macquarie, Global Head of Data & Analytics at Rio Tinto
- Previously at EY, Deloitte, and PwC across enterprise data and AI transformation
Awards & Recognition
◆Winner, Top 100 Women in Data, 2025
◆Top 10 Global Data, Analytics & AI Leaders, 2024
AI · Data · Enterprise Delivery
The Team · Neural Arc Inc.
End of Brief