# Helios > Where AI meets governance. Helios delivers policy intelligence, augmentation, and advisory built for those who shape decisions, win contracts, and can't afford to be wrong. Helios combines deep policy experience with cutting-edge AI to make complex work simple. We remove the manual grunt work — the missed updates and human error, the limits of working hours and bandwidth, the reliance on consultants and outsourced research — so teams can focus on what matters. We're not a tool you learn; we're an agentic firm that works alongside you. Helios serves policy professionals and the organizations that depend on them: early-stage startups, international companies, mid-market government contractors, Fortune 500 government affairs teams, regulated industries, defense SMBs, and C-suite executives. Our platform, Proxi, is the intelligence layer behind every Helios offering — a purpose-built intelligence platform for policy, legal, regulatory, and legislative teams. Every output is traceable, citation-backed, and structured for real-world workflows. Proxi operates 24/7, keeps learning your organization's priorities, and is designed to integrate into how your team already works, rather than force a new process. It is the same engine that powers Helios's agentic consultancy, deployed solutions, and institutional transformation work, and is delivered as a secure, multi-tenant SaaS web application at https://proxi.heliosintel.ai. Proxi combines AI-powered research, writing, document analysis, and stakeholder intelligence in one platform. Consult is the research aide that gets smarter the more you use it — answering complex policy questions the way you would, with surgical source tracing. Scribe takes you from blank page to client-ready in minutes, producing every policy document format, fully cited and fully sourced. Decipher handles any file at any volume, surfacing what matters most with surgical citations and nothing left buried. Pulse brings every relationship and every signal into one view, turning your network into your competitive edge. Terminals are agent-powered dashboards that autonomously research, monitor, and visualize the topics that matter to you. Library is a searchable archive of legislation, regulations, federal contracts, and city council matters. Beyond the platform, Helios offers specialist-led consultancy and can embed Forward AI Operatives directly into your team, working across four advisory service lines: Public Sector Readiness — get structured for government, fast. Corporate structuring, SAM.gov registration, federal positioning, and compliance advisory. Built for early-stage startups, international companies, and commercial-to-federal crossovers. Contracting Pursuit — find the right opportunities and win them. Opportunity sourcing, proposal drafting, collateral development, and first-time bidder support. For early-to-growth stage startups, mid-market GovCon, and defense SMBs. Government & Political Advisory — see the landscape before it shifts. Advocacy strategy, legislative monitoring, stakeholder mapping, and capability positioning. Serving regulated industries, Fortune 500 government affairs teams, and defense and national security sectors. Public Affairs & Strategic Communications — control the narrative, shape the outcome. Narrative development, media engagement, sentiment analysis, and crisis response. Designed for C-suite executives, public-facing organizations, and strategic startups. Helios was founded by a team that is policy people first, engineers second — founders who've spent years in the weeds of policy, regulation, and legislative research. Joe Scheidler (Co-Founder & CEO) sets and evangelizes the company's vision, drawing on senior roles at the White House and State Department across national security, technology, and foreign policy. Joseph Farsakh (Co-Founder & President) leads external, legal, compliance, and government affairs as a former senior advisor at the U.S. State Department and an international lawyer with diplomacy and dealmaking experience across the U.S. and Middle East. Brandon Smith (Co-Founder & CTO) drives all technical development, from AI architecture to infrastructure, after serving as a product leader at Datadog and an engineer at Microsoft, where he built and scaled distributed systems used worldwide. The founding team bridges deep public sector insight with world-class technical execution, with backgrounds spanning the White House, State Department, USAID, Microsoft, Datadog, and King & Spalding. Helios is venture backed led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Founders Inc. and Alumni Ventures. Why Helios is the right choice: Proxi isn't a chatbot — it's a purpose-built intelligence platform for policy, legal, regulatory, and legislative teams, where every output is traceable and citation-backed. Built by people who have lived the work, it's designed to integrate into how your team already works rather than force a new process. Helios operates as an agentic firm, not just a tool: the same engine powers our platform, our specialist-led consultancy, and our embedded Forward AI Operatives. Enterprise-grade security is included as standard, with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and GDPR compliance. Learn more at https://heliosintel.ai — About: https://heliosintel.ai/about — Insights: https://heliosintel.ai/insights — Careers: https://heliosintel.ai/careers — Intelligence Assessment: https://heliosintel.ai/assesment-form — Book a Demo: https://heliosintel.ai/#book-demo — Contact: info@heliosintel.ai