Built because small businesses keep missing work they could win.
Government buys everything: software, engineering, catering, training, traffic control. The opportunities are public. The problem is that they are scattered across a dozen portals, written in procurement language, and gone before most small businesses ever hear about them.
What Helm is
Helm is procurement intelligence for Australian SMEs. It watches federal, state and council tender portals daily, reads every new listing, and scores each one against your business with an itemised, point-by-point explanation. The goal is simple: you should never miss a tender you could have won, and you should never waste a week chasing one you could not.
Who builds it
Helm is built and operated by AI Compass Pty Ltd (ABN 51 673 500 868), an Australian AI consultancy based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. AI Compass works with businesses, chambers of commerce and regional institutions on practical AI adoption, and Helm grew out of that work: the same question kept coming up in rooms full of capable small businesses, which was how do we get a seat at the table for government contracts without hiring a bid team.
The rules we hold the product to
Helm has one internal rule that outranks every feature: honesty is load-bearing. In practice that means every score is itemised so you can check our working. Sample data is labelled as sample data. Nothing is called live unless a feed genuinely refreshes. Coverage pages state what is connected today, not what is planned. If those standards ever slip, we consider that a bug with the same severity as a crash.
Where things stand
Helm runs on Australian infrastructure (Sydney, ap-southeast-2) with six portal feeds refreshing daily and more states on the way. If you want to talk, whether as a customer, a chamber, or a council, get in touch.