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About Helio

Firm Description

Helio is the market-leader in European political intelligence. We combine deep human expertise with cutting-edge tech to provide a service that helps public affairs leaders navigate the increasingly complex political landscape.

Helio is home to both DeHavilland and Forefront; our combined service empowers businesses to monitor and track key political developments in real time, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and anticipate what’s next.  By providing a holistic view of the political environment, Helio helps teams shape strategies, execute campaigns, and make decisions with confidence.

  • Real-time Policy Monitoring: Timely, accurate and relevant updates delivered direct to your inbox, curated for you by our in-house policy team.  AI summaries help highlight the most important information while our analysts produce sector-specific summaries and bespoke reports tailored to your needs.
  • Expert Strategic Counsel: Direct access to a team of advisers with deep expertise in EU institutions and member state politics. These experts provide market-moving insights, daily analysis, and bespoke strategic guidance to help you anticipate disruption and increase internal credibility.
  • Comprehensive European Coverage: Beyond core EU institutional monitoring, Helio offers native-language policy updates for major member states like France and Germany, providing a more extensive view of national narratives that shape Brussels’ decisions.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and SRM: Built-in tools to manage outreach, track team activity, and visualise engagement performance. Comprehensive profiles for political stakeholders include analyst-written biographies and links to relevant legislative procedures.
  • Deep Legislative Tracking: Visibility over every stage of EU legislation through the Procedures tool, linked directly to analyst-written summaries of event outcomes and interventions.
  • AI-enabled tech:  AI-enabled monitoring means analysts can spend time refining the most important updates for your team and spend time on content creation and analysis. While AI-summaries and our AI-search agent, Finder, mean you can surface critical information from trusted sources faster.

By partnering with Helio, public affairs teams can cut through political noise, prove their impact with data-led reporting, and make confident decisions in an increasingly complex environment.

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