The operating partner for solo software consultancies.
Helmwatch keeps the business moving while you build: it watches your stack, drafts and follows up on invoices, replies to tier-1 clients in your voice, and posts the daily status your customers should not have to chase.
Practice · $149/month after trial
Start with your email, open the magic link, land in the dashboard, and connect the tools Helmwatch should watch. Your 14-day Practice trial is free; continue at $149/month when it earns its place in your operating rhythm.
- Watches your stack
- Drafts invoices
- Chases payments
- Replies in your voice
- Posts daily updates
- Sleeps so you can
live activity
- INCIDENTedge-prod latency SLO breach02:14
- INVOICEAcme Holdings — Q3 retainer02:13
- REPLYtier-1 client · drafted in voice02:12
- PAYMENTfollow-up overdue day 302:11
How the night shift works
Once connected, Helmwatch handles the overnight work that keeps a solo consultancy moving, without asking you to stay online.
Helmwatch watches deployed apps, uptime, and connected infrastructure through the night. You get a clear view of anything that needs your attention in the morning.
It uses alert context and runbooks to sort noise from the work that matters. Only the issues that need you are escalated.
It turns your retainer terms into ready-to-send client invoices. Helmwatch sends them from the connected account and leaves a clear record.
When you open Replies, it reads recent Gmail threads that match your visible clients, then uses the relevant inbound context and your saved voice to prepare reviewable drafts. Nuanced threads stay with you.
The night shift, on autopilot.
Every chore that pulls a solo operator away from engineering, scoping, or sleep — handled by an autonomous agent that runs your business while you don’t. Six jobs, one always-on watch.
Continuous incident watch on your deployed apps and cloud — PagerDuty and Better Stack paged, false positives filtered, the right runbook surfaced before you wake up.
Invoices drafted from your retainer terms, sent from a verified address, and logged — so the "send invoice" pile never grows while you sleep.
Detects overdue Stripe invoices, follows up with the right client in the right tone, and stops the moment it is paid — no awkward 11pm emails.
Drafts tier-1 client replies in your writing style, signed off with the context that only you could write — you approve or edit, you never start cold.
Slack and email updates posted every morning — what went out, what came in, what the numbers say — so stakeholders never wonder "what is happening".
Designed for the messy realities of a solo consultancy, not the tidy enterprise workflows generic agentic platforms target. Connects to the tools you already use.
The business doesn’t pause when you do.
Helmwatch handles the always-on work so the consultancy keeps running overnight — and you get back the hours that used to leak into late-night email and brittle automation.
- Answering tickets at midnight because something paged and nobody triaged it.
- Paying an AI automation agency to bolt together brittle Zapier chains that rot in a month.
- Writing the same kind of email 20 times this week — invoice, nudge, status update, another nudge.
- Quietly accepting that "running the business" really means stopping engineering for a day a week.
- Incidents watched, tiered, and queued — your phone only lights up when it has to.
- Invoices, follow-ups, and replies drafted in your voice and shipped from a verified address.
- A daily Slack + email status post lands before you open the laptop — stakeholders never ask "what happened?".
- You spend the night on scoping and engineering — the work only you can do.
Practice is the clear place to start.
Practice starts with a free 14-day trial: no card, no automatic charge, and no automatic renewal. A separate signed-in upgrade confirms the $149/month recurring plan, with the provider cancellation path shown before payment.
A lighter 14-day preview for a single stack.
no card, no auto-renew
- 14-day watch on a single stack
- 1 retainer template, email drafting only
- Drafts queued in Slack + email for review
- Voice training from up to 3 example emails
- Daily status post to your inbox
For a solo consultancy or indie shop ready to go on autopilot after a no-card trial.
14-day trial · no card · no automatic renewal
- Active watch on 1 stack, 24/7
- Full job set: incidents, invoices, follow-ups, replies, daily status
- 1 connected user — ya, that’s you
- Voice + policy trained from 3 sample emails and 1 retainer
- Morning review queue in Slack + email
- Auto-send threshold you set, with audit trail
For a small consultancy running multi-stack, multi-client work.
monthly review call included
- Multi-stack watch — PagerDuty, Better Stack, Stripe, Linear, Gmail, Slack
- Team Slack channels + per-client escalation policy
- Custom escalation + auto-send policy per client
- Monthly review call + on-call Slack channel with the team
- Priority routing on incident triage
- SLA-aware invoicing across retainers and change orders
All plans ship voice + policy training, the morning review queue, and Helmwatch-hosted OAuth — no Zapier maintenance, no extra bills.
Connects to the tools you already use.
Helmwatch reads from and writes into the consultancies standards — incident watch, payment, comms, status. No new system to learn, no brittle Zapier chains to maintain.
- PagerDutyIncident watch
- Better StackUptime + status
- StripeInvoices + payments
- LinearIssue context + scope
- GmailRead-only client context + reply drafts
- SlackDaily status posts
Hand the night shift to Helmwatch.
Give the routine work to Helmwatch and keep your attention for the work only you can do. Start a 14-day Practice trial, connect your tools in the dashboard, and decide what stays in review and what can run on its own. Continue at $149/month when it proves its value.