Helix AI Labs — The studio behind Valence Local-first AI, built to stay in your hands

The studio behind Valence.

Helix is a small independent lab making private AI tools that run on your own computer — your conversations and files stay on your machine, never on someone else's servers. Valence is the one you can get today.

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Runs on your machine Bought once No data harvesting Yours to keep
Why I built this
I'm one person. Helix isn't a startup chasing a market — it's the set of tools I wished existed, built by someone who uses this technology every day. Every feature started as my own frustration: AI I couldn't trust with private things, subscriptions that never end, my data on someone else's server. So I built the fixes — for myself first, then for anyone who shares the itch. Nothing here is a solution in search of a problem.
— Chase, Helix AI Labs
01Operating posture

Four rules we won't break.

Helix is independent, with one bias: keep you in control of your own AI. Every product we make is shaped around the same four promises.

i.

Privacy

Local-first by default. What happens on your machine stays on your machine — nothing phones home.

ii.

Ownership

Buy the tool, own the tool. No subscriptions, no rug-pulls, no renting your own software.

iii.

Observability

See what the AI can reach and what it does. No hidden actions, no quiet background calls.

iv.

Transparency

Your data is plain files you can open and read. Our posture is stated plainly, not buried.

02Product ecosystem

Different tools. Same promise.

From a cross-model AI app to private data tools, agent automation, and learning for kids — every Helix product is built local-first and yours to keep. One is shipping today; the rest are in the lab.

Available now · v1.0

Valence

Every major AI, one app

One interface for every major model provider — local and cloud — with no middleman between you, your data, and your keys.

9 major providers + local Switch models mid-chat Your chats stay on your disk Kids Mode
Explore Valence → Tech specs
valence — multi-model workspace
Valence desktop app running one conversation across a local model and a cloud model.
In the Lab · what we're building next target: late 2026
In development

Chat with your own files

Codename: HIVE

Drop in your PDFs, notes and spreadsheets and just ask — real answers from your own documents, with nothing leaving your machine.

Private document AI · stays local
In development

Hand off a whole task

Codename: AON

Give one goal to a team of AI agents that work it in parallel — and check in with you before doing anything that matters.

Multi-step AI work · you stay in control
In development

A tutor that adapts to your kid

Codename: ARC

Seven learning games across math, typing and reading — it figures out each child and builds the next challenge just for them.

Learning for kids · adapts as they go
In development

Valence on your phone

Valence for Android

Your AI, your keys, your privacy — the Valence experience on Android, with the same local-first posture.

Android · same Valence, on the go
The roadmap

More to come.

Every surface ships from the same workbench, with the same local-first instincts. Want to follow along or shape what's next?

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Begin with the one that's ready.

Valence is available now — every major AI in one window, on your machine, yours to keep. The rest of the stack is being built with the same posture.

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