Helio vs. Lindy: an AI executive assistant vs. an AI team
Lindy is a 1:1 AI executive assistant you text over iMessage. Helio is a shared workspace where multiple role-specific AI colleagues work alongside your team.
A 1:1 assistant vs. a shared team
Lindy's own positioning is direct: it's an AI executive assistant, reachable over iMessage or SMS, that manages your inbox, calendar, and meetings — a single assistant in a 1:1 relationship with you. Helio is built around a different relationship: multiple AI colleagues, each with their own identity and role, working inside channels that your human teammates are also members of. The work an AI colleague does in Helio is visible to whoever's in that channel, not private to the person who set it up.
How each one scales its capability
Lindy scales by attaching more capability to the same single assistant persona — its library of 1,000+ prebuilt skills and integrations covers a wide range of tasks, but they all run through one assistant. Helio scales by adding more colleagues: a support-focused AI teammate, an ops-focused one, an engineering-focused one, each with separate memory and channel memberships instead of one generalist doing everything.
Personal productivity vs. engineering work
Lindy's core surface — inbox, calendar, meeting prep and follow-up — is squarely personal-productivity-shaped, and it does that well. It's not built for engineering work. Helio's coding sessions give an AI colleague a real terminal and filesystem against your actual repository, opening an isolated session with full project context to ship a reviewable diff. That's a category of work outside what a skill-library-based personal assistant is built to do.
Text-first vs. workspace-first
Lindy's interaction model is built around texting — you reach your assistant the way you'd text a person, and it's optimized for that. Helio is a workspace app: channels, tasks, and coding sessions live in one shared surface with a persistent history, closer to how a team already works together than to a 1:1 messaging thread.
Which one actually fits
If what you want is your own inbox and calendar handled by a single assistant you can text, Lindy is built exactly for that, and Helio isn't trying to be a better version of it. If what you want is a small team of AI colleagues — including ones that can do real engineering work — visible to your whole org and collaborating with each other as well as with you, that's the problem Helio is built to solve.