Helping Hunter businesses
navigate AI.
Helm is an AI consultancy in Newcastle, NSW, helping businesses across the Hunter with AI strategy, in-person team training, AI governance and custom internal tools.
Right now, at Helm, we see a clear gap in the market and we want to fill it.
What our clients say
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We're a commercial and industrial builder based in Thornton. Like most builders our size, we were running too much of the business on spreadsheets, and every fix seemed to create...
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Anyone can use AI. Implementing it well is a craft: where to start, what to hand it, what to keep human, and how to make it stick across a whole team.
Six principles run through everything we do.
The same on day one and day nine hundred.
- 01Literacy first
The biggest win isn't a tool we build. It's your whole team using AI properly, every day. Not one clever thing in the corner.
- 02We bring the starting points
We've seen where AI pays inside businesses like yours, so we bring the proven starting points with us. Then we draw out the wins only your people could spot. Every business runs differently and has its own advantages with AI.
- 03Policy before tools
Your AI policy gets written before anyone touches a tool. We teach your team what's safe to put in and what never is, and everything runs in your own accounts.
- 04No hostages
Nothing we set up makes you dependent on us. It all lives in your accounts, your logins, your data. If we disappeared tomorrow, it would all keep working.
- 05Judgement stays human
AI clears away the work around your decisions. Taste and the final call stay with your people.
- 06Fundamentals make evolution easy
AI will keep changing. A team already using it every day takes each new release in stride. A team starting from scratch starts from scratch every time.
Ryan Lynch on why AI fluency belongs in every workplace. A TEDxNewy talk on making AI literacy a basic part of how teams work.
AI fluency should be mandatory in the workplace.
Ryan Lynch, Director at Helm Newcastle.
Last month I was invited to do a TEDxNewy Talk. The purpose of the night was to briefly share an idea you believe in. Mine was that AI fluency should be mandatory in the workplace.
By AI fluency, I mean understanding what AI actually is, what it's good at, what it's bad at, how to use it properly and, just as importantly, how to use it responsibly.
Whether a business has officially adopted AI or not, people are already using it. Without some level of education around it, that can mean staff putting client information into the wrong tools, using free accounts without understanding where that data is going, or trusting outputs they shouldn't.
AI fluency shouldn't just be encouraged, it should be a basic part of workplace training, just as learning Microsoft Excel or Word once was.
Get your AI use compliant before it becomes a requirement. We help Hunter businesses build governance, meet obligations, and stay ready for ISO 42001.
ISO/IEC 42001 is the first internationally recognised standard for managing AI systems. It gives your business a structured, auditable way to govern AI use: a clear policy, a register of tools, risk assessments, defined responsibilities, and a process that keeps improving as the technology and your compliance obligations change.
Certification is voluntary, and it is carried out by independent accredited certification bodies. Helm does not certify. We prepare your business, document your controls, and close the gaps so you can meet client, regulator, and insurer expectations with confidence.
Listed on the Australian Government's AI Directory- AI use register
We catalog every AI tool in your business, what it touches, who owns it, and how it is controlled.
- Risk assessment
We identify the legal, security, accuracy, compliance, and reputational risks that matter to your business.
- Policy and procedures
We write an AI policy that fits your business, then document procedures an auditor can follow and test.
- Team training
We train your people on the policy and the tools, with records you can show as evidence of compliance.
- Implementation roadmap
We build a staged plan that gets you ready for certification or compliance review without stopping day-to-day work.
- Internal readiness review
We check your evidence, controls, and gaps before an accredited certification body or external auditor reviews them.
Start with a short intro. We'll look at where AI already lives in your business, what compliance gaps exist, and what readiness would actually involve.
Book an ISO 42001 introHelm acknowledges the Awabakal and Worimi peoples as the traditional custodians of the land and waters of Newcastle, where we live and work. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community, and a relationship with this place that spans tens of thousands of years.
We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.