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One screen at the front desk. Catches problems before your players do. Live match stats on your crew's screen. Replaces the bare desktop with something they actually want to use.
Right now the answer to most of these is "have a person watch for it." Helm watches for you.
Your manager goes station by station, checking what is on, what is signed in, what reset overnight. That is thirty minutes before the door even opens. Helm runs the morning check while your staff is still making coffee.
A frozen game. A signed-out account. A controller that will not pair. Right now the only way you find out is when a player raises a hand or, worse, goes quiet. Helm tells the front desk first.
They want to help. Right now they squint at six stations and guess who needs it. With Helm, every active player shows up on your crew's screen with the game stats that matter. The right player gets the right note at the right moment.
Updates. Account refreshes. Install checks. Manual reboots. One staff member babysits the floor until midnight. Helm runs the update on every station in parallel and signals when each one is ready to play.
Helm is four connected views: one for the floor, one for the morning, one for the crew, one for the player. They share one database, one login, one set of updates.
A live map of your room. Each tile shows who is playing what, how long they have been at it, and whether anything needs a hand. The whole floor at a glance, without walking it.
Helm runs through every station first thing each day. Wallpapers, sign-ins, installed games, scheduled tasks. Anything that drifted overnight gets fixed automatically or surfaced for staff to handle.
Tap any station to see who is on it. Their history at your venue, what they like to play, who they came in with last time, what they are working toward. The screen never touches the player. It just makes the crew sharper.
Replaces the bare desktop. Tonight's featured game up front. The rest of the lineup one click away. Tracks personal progress, hands out rewards earned by playing, and stays out of the way once they hit launch.
Helm is priced per location, billed annually. Most software in this space lists in the high five and six figures. Helm does not.
The full product in Helm's own brand. Operator dashboard, morning check, crew tools, clean player screen.
or $1,200 / month annually
Your venue, your brand on the player screen. Custom art, scheduling, and a direct line to the founder.
includes branded onboarding
Helm Custom, year one only, at a price that says thank you for being early.
then $24,000 / year (Helm Custom)
Helm started as the software one venue manager wished existed. Every screen on this page began as a problem we hit on a busy afternoon, with players waiting and a station refusing to cooperate. The fix shipped the next weekend.
Most software in this space assumes you have an IT team and a procurement department. We assume you have a manager, a small crew, and customers who paid for the next two hours. The product was written to that room.
Helm Custom wears your venue's brand on the player screen. The operator screens stay Helm so your staff has one place to find help.