There is no bigger version of Helm.
Every new feature is $49, charged only after you have seen it working. Free builds your first site; Live keeps it running on your domain with your team on call. What you are choosing is how much of the running you hand over.
- $49 a feature, charged when you approve itWe build the next thing, show it to you working, and only then does it cost anything.
- One product, two plansFree builds and hosts your first site. Live keeps it on your domain, badge off, with your team on call.
- Free gets you a real, published siteWe build your first site and put it live on a Helm address. No card, and nothing to undo later.
Two lists. One of them costs.
You are charged for new work your team delivers, and for nothing else. One list below costs, the other never does, so you are never working out which product a charge came from.
- Build a site from a conversation
- Change an already-built site
- A roadmap phase — the next feature of your plan, built onto the site you already have
- Redraw a picture on a live site from a typed request
That is the entire list. As new tools ship — marketing, then analytics — they are charged the same way rather than becoming another subscription.
- Your first site published, live on a Helm address
- The page view count on your published site
- Your published site's staged engine actually running (e.g. a personalized story)
- Your published site's standing work — a reminder before a lesson, a recap at the end of the week
- Sign-in and accounts for your published site's visitors
- Paid memberships on your published site — who has actually paid, and letting them in
- Orders and stock for your shop — every paid cart recorded, counted and sent to you
- Your published site texting your customers — a reminder, a 'your order is ready'
- Rewriting your page's copy in a different voice — warmer, bolder, plainer
- Asking the studio to change your pages, logo or flows in your own words
Work is only charged once it’s actually delivered — if it can’t finish, you’re not charged for it. A new feature goes further: we build it, show it to you, and charge you only if you keep it. No meter running while the AI fixes its own mistakes.
Why those are free. Reading your plan is a page load, so it is free — the work your team does is in changing it, and that is what a feature pays for. Putting your first site on the web is free too: the moment you finally see it working is the one we least want to tax. And charging for a typo fix would just leave typos on your site.
A new feature is $49 — and you pay it after you have seen it. We build the thing you asked for, put it in front of you, and you decide. Keep it and it costs $49. Turn it down and your site is exactly as you left it, and there is nothing to pay. Nobody else does it this way: everywhere else you buy the attempt, argue with a chat box, and hope. Here you are buying the finished thing.
The three things everybody asks first.
This is the work you would be paying for.
Every one of these came out of a conversation, a plan somebody approved, and the same team you would be paying for.
Real Helm builds on Helm-owned accounts — our own and demo businesses, not customer endorsements. Every one of them was built by the same team, from the same conversation, on a plan from this page.
The rest of the questions.
- 01What exactly do I get for free?
- One complete site — the consult, the design spec and the first build — and you can publish it. No credit card. It is a real build rather than a watermarked preview: the point is that you see what Helm actually produces for your business before you decide anything. It is one time rather than something that refreshes each month, and the site carries a small “Built with Helm” badge that any paid plan removes.
- 02Is the free plan a trial in disguise?
- No. It isn’t time-limited, there’s no card at signup, and nothing expires — the site you build is yours and stays published. What free covers is one complete first site: the consult, the design and the first build. After that, new work is what a plan pays for. We would rather you pick a plan because you want more built than because a countdown finished.
- 03Do I own the site?
- You own it — your content, your domain, your Stripe account. Customer payments settle directly into your own Stripe rather than passing through Helm, and Helm takes no cut of what you sell. What you pay us is the subscription on this page and nothing else.
- 04Can I move between plans?
- Any time, in both directions, from your account page. Upgrades take effect immediately; downgrades and cancellations run to the end of the period you have already paid for. No fee, no phone call.
- 05Which plan should I pick?
- Pick the one that matches how often you expect to change things, not how big the business is. Live suits wanting it built properly and then mostly left alone — it keeps the site up, and you pay for a new feature when you actually want one. If you find yourself putting work off, that is the signal to move up — and you can, mid-month, effective straight away.
- 06What happens when marketing and analytics land?
- They arrive on every plan at once, including free, and they are charged the same way as any other work rather than becoming a second subscription. Your price does not change because they shipped.
Still deciding? See exactly how a build works — you read and approve the plan before anything gets built, and that part costs nothing.
Pick the pace. Change it whenever.
Your first site is free. Every feature after it is $49, charged when you approve it. You are only deciding how much of the running you hand over.