Helium

Self Improving Software

2.6Score#472 of 999 agents#14 of 22 in Performance marketer

Why it ranks #472

Helium, an AI performance marketer from YC S24, ranks #472 of 999 AI agents and #14 of 22 in Performance marketer, with a score of 2.6 of 10. Data as of 3 Oct 2026.

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

Proof 0 × 30% 0.0
Scale 3 × 30% 0.9
Momentum 3 × 25% 0.8
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 2.6

Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
0
No public claims of customers or revenue yet.
Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), a customer result (+2), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
3
9 people.
- +3
  9 people on its YC page5 to 9 people
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
3
Shows hiring.
- +3
  Hiring: 7 open rolesFounding Sr Full-Stack Engineer, Founding Design Engineer, Founding Full-Stack EngineerYC page
Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), funding news in the last year (+2), a batch in the last year (it is YC Summer 2024) (+1)
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
6
Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
- +6
  Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
What the model read
- Acts in other systems: 79% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 15% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 4% likely
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Helium

Helium is building self-improving software — AI that continuously experiments on key moments in the user funnel to boost revenue. Our first customer, a social app with 20M MAU, uses Helium to test new in-app paywalls to get more users to subscribe.

Zach previously made $100M+ in growth experiments at Uber, Shishir led the first LLM features for Alexa, and Anish worked at Meta building ML to automatically experiment on ads, increasing Instagram ads conversion by 10%.