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# Use Helium in Slack: profile, search, chaining, and network import

> Use Helium in Slack via @mentions, DMs, or `/usehelium`: fundraising profile intake, investor/LP search chaining, network import, spend confirmations, and daily limits.

This page covers what Helium can do once it's [installed and signed
up](/helium/slack-install) in your workspace, and the guardrails that keep
it predictable to use.

## Talking to it

* **@mention** it in a channel: `@Helium ...`
* **DM** it directly — no @mention needed
* **Slash command**: `/usehelium <your question>`
* **Follow-ups in a thread** it's already replied in don't need a fresh
  @mention.

## Fundraising fit profile

Before your first search, Helium has a short, natural conversation to
collect your fit profile — it only asks for what's actually missing, never
a fixed script:

* **Raising equity from VCs/angels?** Stage, sector, ICP, geography, round
  size, known competitors.
* **A fund raising from LPs?** Fund name, thesis, check size, target LP
  types (family offices, HNW individuals, recently-exited founders,
  institutional allocators, angels).

Once set, Helium reuses it on every future search — it won't re-ask unless
you say something implying it changed (e.g. "actually we're raising a
Series A now").

## Investor/LP research chaining

Ask a compound question and Helium chains the underlying tool calls itself:

> "Find seed fintech investors, then pull the full profile on the top 3."

This runs a search → enrich chain automatically. Naming specific
competitors (or having them in your profile) triggers a **competitor-driven
discovery** fold-in — funds that backed those companies get surfaced and
flagged "lookalike via {company}":

> "Who funded Ramp and Ramp's competitors?"

## Network import

Upload (or paste the contents of) your LinkedIn connections export — from
LinkedIn's **Settings → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data →
Connections** — and Helium imports it to power **warm-path matching**:
future search results flag when someone in your own network already has a
tie to a matched investor or fund. This is free and one-time; Helium will
suggest it once but won't nag about it repeatedly.

## Lists and batches

Paste a list of named investors/funds/companies and Helium researches each
independently, then compiles **one combined answer** — never a reply per
item. For a batch of more than roughly 5-10 items, it posts periodic
progress updates rather than going quiet until the end.

## Honest answers, live cost transparency

Helium never fabricates a fund name, investor name, check size, or
portfolio company — an honest "not found" is preferred over a
plausible-looking guess. Every answer that spent credits ends with exactly
what it cost:

```
_Spent 12 credits · 988 remaining_
```

## Automated outreach sequences

Connect your Gmail account first — go to your
[dashboard](https://lite.gravitygtm.com/dashboard) and click **Connect
Gmail** under the Helium section (one-time; Helium sends from your own
address, never a shared one). Gravity's own shared Google app is still going
through Google's verification review, so if your company uses Google
Workspace, [setting up your own Google OAuth app](/helium/gmail-oauth-client-setup)
first is recommended — it connects instantly, with no wait on that
verification. This is a way to skip the wait today, not a permanent extra
step; once Gravity's shared app is verified, plain **Connect Gmail** works
directly for everyone. Not on Workspace? You may see Google's "app isn't
verified" warning when connecting through the shared app in the meantime, or
be unable to connect at all until Gravity adds your address to an interim
allowlist — reach out if you hit this. Once connected, ask Helium to start a
sequence to an investor or LP by email — for example:

> start a sequence to [jane@examplevc.com](mailto:jane@examplevc.com)

Helium schedules a 4-touch outreach sequence (an initial email, then
follow-ups roughly 5, 9, and 14 days later) from your own connected Gmail
account. It does **not** draft or send anything the moment you ask — a
background process drafts each touch shortly before it's due, runs it
through the same anti-hallucination checks as everything else Helium
writes, and posts it to this Slack channel for your review:

> **Touch 1 ready for Jane VC \<[jane@examplevc.com](mailto:jane@examplevc.com)>**
> *Subject: ...*
> *(drafted email body)*
> \[✅ Approve & send] \[✏️ Edit] \[⏭️ Skip this touch]

Nothing is ever sent without a human clicking **Approve & send** — this is
a hard rule, not a suggestion the model can talk itself out of. **Edit**
opens the draft in an editable form; your edited version still passes
through the same safety checks before it can send. **Skip** moves on to
the next touch in the cadence without sending this one.

If the investor replies at any point, Helium detects it and automatically
stops the sequence — no further touches are drafted or sent into a thread
that's already gotten a response. The Slack message also classifies the
reply (interested, wants to meet, pass, referral, or unclear) and adds a
generic suggested next step, instead of just a plain "they replied" line —
see [Reply classification](/helium/monitoring-and-discovery#reply-classification)
for exactly how that works.

Add your name and company (and a real scheduling link, if you have one) to
your fundraising fit profile before starting sequences — Helium's safety
checks use these: a draft that doesn't identify itself as you gets flagged
for review instead of sent, and a scheduling offer only survives if it
points to a scheduling link you've actually configured, never an invented
one.

## Monitoring & discovery

Once Gmail is connected, Helium also runs a few background checks with no
extra setup:

* **Calendar meeting-prep briefs** — once daily, Helium checks today's
  calendar for meetings with investors you've already started a sequence
  with, and posts what it knows about their fund before the call.
* **Lookalike investor discovery** and **LinkedIn engagement monitoring**
  are opt-in — tell Helium something like "turn on lookalike monitoring,
  our competitors are Ramp and Mercury" or "start monitoring my LinkedIn
  engagement" and it should set the relevant profile fields for you via
  `set_fundraising_profile`. If it doesn't pick that up, ask it to call
  `set_fundraising_profile` explicitly, or set the fields directly with
  `PUT /v1/fundraising/profile` — see [Monitoring & discovery](/helium/monitoring-and-discovery)
  for the exact field names. Both run free on a schedule once opted in;
  `find_lookalike_investors` is also available as a paid on-demand tool if
  you want a lookalike search right now instead of waiting for the weekly
  check.

See [Monitoring & discovery](/helium/monitoring-and-discovery) for exactly
what each check looks at, how often it runs, and the full free-vs-billed
breakdown.

## Spend confirmation

Before running anything estimated above **50 credits or 10 items**, Helium
pauses and posts a card instead of just running it:

> **Confirm before I proceed**
> *(plan summary + credit estimate)*
> \[Run it] \[Cancel]

This is a hard rule, not a suggestion the model can talk itself out of.

## Free-tier daily limit

A free-trial workspace gets **20 agent messages per day** (resets at
midnight UTC) — tracked **separately from Horizon's own daily limit**, so a
workspace with both apps installed gets an independent budget for each.

**A workspace on any paid credit pack is never capped** — only the request
rate and credit balance shared with the REST API and MCP server (and with
Horizon, if also installed) apply. See [Credits & Pricing](/helium/credits-and-pricing).

## Out of credits

If a request runs out of credits mid-conversation, Helium says so plainly
and includes a top-up link.
