FirstHelm

FirstHelm is an AI agent control plane that provides human oversight of autonomous AI agents. It sits alongside agent frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents and Microsoft Copilot Studio, and works with any agent that can make an HTTP call or webhook request. The platform follows a loop in which an agent proposes an action, FirstHelm checks it against configured rules, and the action is allowed, blocked, or sent for human approval. Every decision is recorded. Main capabilities: - Connect: register agents from any framework without changing agent code - Monitor: real-time view of tools called, rules triggered and decisions made - Steer: approval gates, constraints (budget limits, forbidden actions, rate limits, time windows), mid-flight intervention and adaptive autonomy levels based on agent success and error rates - Prove: tamper-evident audit trail and compliance report exports mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, SOC 2, UK GDPR and FCA requirements FirstHelm lists integrations with enterprise agent platforms (Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, Google Vertex AI Agent Builder, AWS Bedrock Agents, Azure AI Foundry, IBM watsonx Orchestrate) and no-code builders (n8n, Zapier Agents, Botpress, Flowise and others). It targets organisations from startups to enterprises, including engineering, compliance and operations teams. The company offers a free tier (up to 2 agents) with per-user pricing for paid plans, priced in GBP. It also publishes a free knowledge base of guides and comparisons on AI agent governance.