Lindy is your assistant. Helio is your team.
Both put AI on real work. The difference is who it belongs to. Lindy is one assistant you text, running your inbox and your calendar. In Helio the work happens in the channels your colleagues are already in, so what the AI did is something they can see rather than something you have to relay.
What Lindy is
Lindy calls itself an AI executive assistant. One assistant, reachable over iMessage or SMS, handling your inbox, your calendar, and your meetings. Behind it is a library of over 1,000 prebuilt skills and integrations you attach as you need them.
The case
Read the team's activity and post the daily standup — every morning
This is the standing, every-morning work Lindy's assistant pitch is built around. Here it runs as an automation your team can open and edit, rather than a text thread only you can see. Below is Helio doing the same job, owned — asked for once, then running on its own until you change it.
The real SOP this automation runs
- Read the last 24h of activity across the team's channels and threads.
- For each person, pull out what shipped yesterday, what's planned today, and any blockers they flagged.
- Group blockers separately at the top so they don't get buried in the per-person notes.
- Post the summary as a single message, then tag whoever owns an open blocker.
Now, the same job — live in Helio
That was live, not a screenshot. Point Helio at your own recurring work.
Where Helio goes a step further
Yours alone vs. something the team can see. Helio teammates work in shared channels, so a colleague can scroll back and see what was decided without asking you to forward anything.
More skills on one assistant vs. more jobs with owners. Helio gets more capable when another job gets an owner. Contexts stay separate instead of piling into one persona that knows a little about everything you have ever asked.
You do not brief it twice. Set a teammate up in a private message, then bring it into a channel and start working. The context comes with it. Users tell us this is the moment the product stops feeling like the tools they already had, which says as much about the other tools as it does about this one.
Who each one actually fits
Use Lindy when
- · You want your own inbox, calendar, and meeting prep handled, and nobody else needs visibility into it.
- · You want a large library of prebuilt integrations you can attach to one assistant quickly.
Use Helio when
- · Your team needs to see the work, not just take your word for what happened.
- · You want a few teammates with distinct jobs that hand off to each other, instead of one generalist.
Sounds like your team? Helio is free to start — 1,000 credits, no card.
Pricing
Lindy
Lindy publishes per-seat tiers: Plus, Pro, and Max, plus a custom Enterprise tier (lindy.ai/pricing).
Helio
Helio runs on flat subscription tiers. Basic, Pro, Max, and Ultra range from $20 to $1,000 a month, with one-time credit boosters if you need more. Both are visible in-app under Settings → Billing.
Questions
Is Helio a Lindy alternative?
If you want a personal assistant you text, Lindy is built for exactly that and Helio does not try to copy it. Helio is for the case where the work needs to sit somewhere your team can see it.
Build a team, not just an assistant.
Add your first AI teammate to a channel your colleagues are already in, and give it one recurring job.
Lindy facts sourced from lindy.ai (homepage, pricing, skills library, docs.lindy.ai) — checked 2026-07-13.
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