Business platform
HelmOne
Connected technology for running and growing a business.
From an initial idea to a connected online platform for managing customers, automation, day-to-day work and business information.
Practical technology that makes your business work better.
You don’t need to know what technology you need. Tell us what you want to work better and we’ll help find the right way forward.
A few quick questions. We’ll suggest a starting point.
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business
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The right technology for the job.
Better doesn’t always mean starting again.
Sometimes that’s a better website. Sometimes it’s AI or automation. Sometimes it’s connecting the software you already use. And sometimes it’s building something new.
We start with what you’re trying to achieve — not the technology. We’ll look at what already works, what could work better and what’s missing, then recommend the simplest way forward.
Keep what works. Connect what’s separate. Automate what’s repetitive. Build what’s missing.
Common problems. Simple solutions.
See how your business could work better.
Most people come to us because something is getting in the way. Does any of this sound familiar?
What we can help you build and improve
Need a better website, less admin or a tool that fits your business? Tell us what you want to change. We’ll help you find a sensible way forward.
Websites
Make it easy for people to understand what you do, trust your business and get in touch, book or buy.
Test a new idea
Have an idea for a new business or service? We can build a simple first version so you can put it in front of real people and learn what works.
Apps & platforms
Give your customers or team a tool built around what they actually need to do.
Automation & connected systems
Spend less time copying information, chasing updates and doing the same tasks over and over.
AI & smarter ways of working
Use AI to save time, serve customers better and find new opportunities. Whether you’re exploring ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, we can help you start with one useful task or plan how AI could work across your business.
Business systems
Bring your customers, jobs and important information together so your business is easier to run.
For businesses like yours
From trades and restaurants to membership clubs, agencies and online shops, we shape websites, apps and business tools around the way you work.
See the difference when your tools work together.
Follow one new customer enquiry through a typical business. Then see what changes when everything is connected.
Website form
Inbox
Spreadsheet
CRM
Accounts
The same details, entered four times. Slow, and easy to miss.
A new enquiry can move through the business without the same details being copied from place to place.
We can connect common business tools such as accounting, CRM, ecommerce, email, calendar, spreadsheet and messaging platforms. Any product names we mention are examples of software that can be connected, not clients or partners.
Different ideas. Built around different needs.
Heading Studio is a new name, not a new team. These products were designed and built within Helm Ventures, our parent company — each shaped around a particular audience, process or market.
Specialist online platform
Creator Agency
Turning platform data into actionable business intelligence.
A specialist platform designed around the operational and revenue challenges of managing multiple creators.
Website & interactive game
TakeTheGrid
Taking an original idea from concept to working digital product.
An original consumer concept transformed into a working website and interactive digital product.
Concept designMarketplace web app Early-stage project
ShiftPool
Turning a real-world staffing problem into a simple digital marketplace.
A real hospitality staffing problem translated into a two-sided digital marketplace.
From where work gets stuck to a first useful step.
Start with the business problem or idea, then agree one useful step.
Start with one useful step. Learn from it, then improve from there.
Describe the friction
Tell us where work gets stuck, or the idea you want to test, in a few short answers.
See an initial Project Shape
A suggested starting direction and the questions that still need clarifying. It’s based only on your answers — not an audit, a quote or a proposal.
Explore the choices together
We talk through the practical options and give you an honest recommendation — including when a new build isn’t needed.
Agree a focused first step
We build that step with you, see how it works in practice, and improve from there.
What are you working on?
Need a better website, have an idea for an app, or want to make the day-to-day work in your business easier? Tell us a little about it. You don’t need to know what technology you need.
Plain English. A sensible first step. No obligation.