INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When OpenAI was having its ChatGPT moment in 2022, Joe Scheidler, co-founder and CEO of Helios, was tackling a different kind of challenge:
His current co-founder, Joseph Farsakh, was also at the State Department, working on Yemen Houthi peace negotiations
The two overlapped in national security discussions and started trading notes on how large language models might transform public policy on
The founders thought: What if there was a better way to support decision making, one that combined AI-native tools with an understanding of
how public policy is decided?The answer to that question was the idea behind Helios
payroll/HR management solution, or the climate/economic forecasting product of the same name) emerged from stealth last month with $4
The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Founders Inc
policy, regulatory affairs, legal, compliance, and government teams, is still in beta
But, Scheidler says, the company is already seeing early traction with workers in federal, state, and local agencies, as well as Fortune 500
sort of a web of secure AI agents that are trained and fine-tuned against really robust public policy datasets to support them on anything
their portfolio, their focus, and objectives
collaborative AI editing and writing tool that helps policy professionals turn their soundboarding sessions with Consult into memos,
filings, and policy documents
Proxi offers a CRM (customer relationship management) tool that helps people visually map out their stakeholder environment and track their
engineering team, with a focus on finding the right tech talent
Rather than rushing to monetize quickly, Scheidler says the startup is focusing on building long-term business relationships and collecting
