Context, already connected.
Bring the systems around a responsibility into one native app, so the next step begins with the right information.
Purpose-built software for the people on callYour runbook.
Your runbook.
With a run
button.
We build native apps that turn your team’s scattered tools into a clear picture—and a considered next move.
Your systems.Your workflows. Built to order.
FIG. 01 / CONTEXT BECOMES ACTION
Tools, brought
together.
together.
Built around the tools
your team already uses.
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The work between the toolsYour team owns the service.
Your team owns the service.
Give them the whole picture.
Every handoff asks an engineer to connect the dots: the alert, the ticket, the code, the customer. A run-app carries those connections as software.
An answer you can act on.
Connect a failure to the service, deployment, and customer behind it. Make the operating question the center of the screen.
Care at the point of action.
Put the details and confirmation beside the consequential decision. Build the safe path into the flow.
Our own work / two ways to carry a responsibilitySpecific work.
Specific work.
Specific software.
A bridge for an engineer. A cockpit for a service. Both built for ourselves first: Helmhouse runs its own fleet on the apps below.
01 / Wheelhouse · The personal bridgeYour engineering day.
Your engineering day.
Within reach.
Wheelhouse joins a team’s issues, pull requests, monitoring, deployments and coding sessions in a native iPhone app. The reads run on the engineer’s own Mac. This is the instance our own team carries.
Our own engineering, on our own app. Existing app screens, sample data.
02 / STUNL Admin · The service cockpitOne service.
One service.
The whole operating picture.
Built for the operators of STUNL, the tunnel service our fleet is reached through. STUNL Admin connects edge health, live tunnels, accounts, abuse reports and guarded actions over the service’s own admin API, straight from the phone.
- See which hosts, services and certificates are healthy.
- Trace a tunnel to the account behind it.
- End or block a tunnel with a confirmation, not a shell.
The cockpit for a service we operate. Existing screens, sample data.
From your runbook to your run-appOne service.
One service.
A useful place to start.
A focused engagement, built around the work that costs your team the most attention.
Bring us the real work.
One service, its owner, and the moments that send them between tools. A runbook or a recent incident is a useful place to begin.
A clear operational problem
Agree the first useful app.
We map the systems, the decisions, and the trust boundaries. Together, we define the workflows worth building first.
A product direction, trust model, and scope
Put it in the owner’s hands.
A native app shaped around the team’s actual work, including the waiting, failed-access, and recovery states they will meet.
Software for a responsibility you own
Access, considered from the startBuilt around your work.
Built around your work.
And your boundaries.
Your app’s trust model is part of its scope. We map the systems it reaches, where credentials live, and which actions need confirmation before we build.
Your MacSealed relayYour iPhone
When the work lives on the Mac.
In Wheelhouse’s Mac-mediated workflows, the credentials for issues, code, monitoring and deployment tools stay on the Mac. The relay carries encrypted, signed messages. The Mac needs to be awake and connected.
Your iPhoneYour systems
When the phone is the console.
A service app can reach its systems directly, with credentials in its private Keychain and a VPN where needed. STUNL Admin holds one admin token and talks to one API; the architecture follows the service’s access requirements.
Optional phone-side AWS and VPN access has its own device-local trust boundary. We document the model for your team to review.
A few useful answers
Before we begin.
What exactly are we buying?
A bespoke native app for your team or a service you operate. Wheelhouse and STUNL Admin are the apps we run Helmhouse on, shown as examples of the practice. Your engagement is scoped around your systems, workflows, and access requirements.
Do we need to change our tools?
The app connects the systems your team uses. We identify the APIs, permissions, local context, and integration work needed during scoping. Your systems remain the sources of record.
What should we bring to the first conversation?
A service you own, a runbook, or a recent example of work that required too many handoffs. We will use it to discuss the operating questions, safe actions, and smallest useful scope.
What will it cost, and how long will it take?
Price and timing depend on the integrations, workflows, trust model, and distribution requirements. We define those with you and agree scope before the build. There is no generic seat-based package to select.
Let’s build your run-appThe next run-app
The next run-app
could be yours.
Start there. Tell us what your team owns and where the work gets stuck. We’ll start a conversation about the right first app.
contact@helmhouse.io