Reasoning in Practice

Business reasoning, grounded in the twin.

Helm does not just retrieve data. Grounded in a live digital twin, it reasons through business structure, constraints and value drivers to answer harder questions.
These five short demos show that range, from grounded retrieval through to feasibility testing, causal decomposition and sensitivity analysis.

Grounded retrieval

Ask in plain English. Retrieve the right answer with lineage.

This is the Analyst at its most direct: resolve intent against the twin, retrieve the relevant metric, and return it with full provenance. It gives users reliable access to operational and financial data without manual filtering, while keeping every answer traceable back to source.

  • Intent is resolved against the twin's operational and financial vocabulary
  • Entities, units and time horizons are interpreted automatically
  • Results come back with source lineage, ready to review and share
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DEMO 01 - Grounded retrieval from the twin with semantic resolution and lineage.
Cross-hierarchy analytical reasoning

Reason across sites, assets and planning horizons in one question.

This is more than retrieval across extra dimensions. The Analyst can resolve a single request across multiple business objects, time periods and aggregation rules without forcing the user to structure the analysis first. Because it understands how the twin's hierarchy and cost logic fit together, it can move between site-level and asset-level views and return one coherent answer instead of stitched-together outputs.

  • One question can traverse assets, sites and planning views in a single analysis
  • Decomposition logic shifts with business context without losing metric consistency
  • The twin's hierarchy is used natively, so comparisons come back as one reasoned output
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DEMO 02 - Cross-hierarchy analysis across sites, assets and planning periods.
Feasibility testing against business logic

Test plans against operational reality, not just reported numbers.

The Analyst can take user-specified assumptions, apply them to the twin's operating model, and reason about whether a plan is physically achievable. This goes beyond retrieval: it combines asset parameters, business rules and contextual constraints to evaluate feasibility, explain where the plan breaks, and show why.

  • User-defined assumptions are translated into executable logic against the twin
  • Physical capacity, planned demand and constraint effects are reconciled in one analysis
  • Shortfalls are explained with the periods, drivers and reasoning behind the result
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DEMO 03 - Feasibility testing against physical constraints, assumptions and plan demand.
Driver-based causal analysis

Explain performance gaps in terms the business already trusts.

The Analyst does more than report a miss. It traces variance through the twin's value-driver logic, separating the gap into the components that actually explain performance. Even when the logic depends on more complex formulas, it can break results into fair driver contributions using advanced methods such as Shapley decomposition. That lets it move from a top-line question to a defensible root-cause view in seconds.

  • Variances and complex formulas are decomposed through driver relationships, not flat arithmetic
  • Analysis can span periods, scenarios and indicators without rebuilding the logic
  • Each component stays tied to the twin's business context and source data
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DEMO 04 - Driver-based explanation of performance variance across the twin.
Scenario and sensitivity reasoning

Change an assumption and see the business respond.

The Analyst can perturb a driver, propagate that change through the twin, and show how outcomes move across a scenario range. That turns the model into a live reasoning engine for planning conversations: users can test assumptions, quantify exposure and see where performance becomes sensitive.

  • Driver changes are propagated through structural business relationships
  • Scenario ranges, reference points and response curves come back in one view
  • What-if analysis happens on demand without rebuilding a model offline
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DEMO 05 - Real-time sensitivity analysis across structural value drivers.

NoteAll demo animations on this page are extracted from live AI Analyst query sessions. Run-time has been compressed for display purposes — actual query durations typically range from one to three minutes. The data shown is simulated.

See these demos on your data.

A briefing typically takes 60 minutes. We will show the platform applied to a business that looks like yours - with your data, your value drivers, your scenarios.