# Helcyon

> Ontology-governed financial intelligence for operating businesses, advisors, lenders, and institutions.

## What Helcyon Is

Helcyon is a financial intelligence system that classifies transaction-level financial activity through a governed financial ontology. Its deterministic analytical engines evaluate business health, obligation behavior, cash production, and forward cash position while preserving transaction evidence and explicit claim boundaries.

Intelligence Briefs and critical alerts reach users directly. An optional dashboard supports evidence review, historical analysis, multi-entity monitoring, and scenario work. Data access is read-only.

## Technology

- [Technology Overview](https://helcyon.ai/technology): The architecture beneath Helcyon financial intelligence.
- [Financial Ontology](https://helcyon.ai/technology/financial-ontology): The governed classification layer that gives financial activity consistent meaning.
- [Obligation Integrity](https://helcyon.ai/technology/obligation-integrity): Deterministic analysis of ledger-visible obligation and payment behavior.
- [Cash Production Capacity](https://helcyon.ai/technology/cash-production-capacity): What recurring business activity produces after recurring operating obligations, separated from temporary, non-recurring, and discretionary uses.
- [Cash Foresight](https://helcyon.ai/technology/cash-foresight): Current cash position and the 13-week path ahead through governed timing logic, obligations, and explicit assumptions.
- [Evidence Grades](https://helcyon.ai/technology/evidence-grades): Every finding is graded on the strength of its underlying evidence; when the data cannot support a conclusion it is marked Not Yet Assessable instead of guessed.
- [Validation](https://helcyon.ai/technology/validation): How the engine is calibrated and tested before it reads a live business, and how it fails closed.

## Financial Intelligence System

- [How Helcyon Works](https://helcyon.ai/how-it-works)
- [Business Vital Signs](https://helcyon.ai/vital-signs)
- [Cash Pulse](https://helcyon.ai/vital-signs/cash-pulse)
- [Revenue Blood Pressure](https://helcyon.ai/vital-signs/revenue-blood-pressure)
- [Customer Heartbeat](https://helcyon.ai/vital-signs/customer-heartbeat)
- [Margin Temperature](https://helcyon.ai/vital-signs/margin-temperature)
- [Growth Oxygen](https://helcyon.ai/vital-signs/growth-oxygen)
- [Financial Immune System](https://helcyon.ai/immune-system)
- [Scenario Engine](https://helcyon.ai/scenario-engine)
- [Helcyon Methodology](https://helcyon.ai/helcyon-score)

## Research

- [Research](https://helcyon.ai/research): Five working papers on small-business financial distress (SSRN), authored by founder Lukas Swid.

## Applications

- [For Accountants and Advisors](https://helcyon.ai/accountants)
- [For Lenders](https://helcyon.ai/lenders)
- [For Government](https://helcyon.ai/government)
- [Partners](https://helcyon.ai/partners)

## Evidence and Trust

- [Security](https://helcyon.ai/security)
- [Privacy Policy](https://helcyon.ai/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Service](https://helcyon.ai/terms-of-service)

## Company and Resources

- [About Helcyon](https://helcyon.ai/about)
- [Financial Intelligence Library](https://helcyon.ai/library)
- [Before the Flatline](https://helcyon.ai/book)
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://helcyon.ai/faqs)
- [Contact](https://helcyon.ai/contact)