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HELIO

Bridgeford Capital × Helio:
Year One in Review

What we built, what it returned, and where we go next.

Sarah Osei, Customer Success June 2024 QBR

Where We Started

June 2023: The Problem State

Mean Time to Resolve 4.2 hrs
P1 Incidents per Month 3.0
False Positive Rate 31%

Committed Outcomes

Mean Time to Resolve Under 60 min
P1 Incidents per Month Under 1.0
False Positive Rate Under 10%

Adoption Momentum

2000 1500 1000 500 0 Week 0 Week 13 Week 26 Week 39 Week 52 Onboarding Complete First On-Call Rotation Org-Wide Rollout 1,840 active monitors Weekly Active Monitors

Performance Scorecard

METRIC BASELINE (Jun '23) CURRENT (Jun '24) CHANGE
Mean Time to Resolve 4.2 hrs 38 min ↓ 91%
P1 Incidents per Month 3.0 0.6 ↓ 80%
False Positive Rate 31% 4% ↓ 87%
On-Call Hours Saved 210 / month New
Infrastructure Team NPS 47 71 +24 pts
"We haven't had a midnight page in six months. That's not a tool win — it's a culture win."
JP
Jordan Pfeiffer
VP Infrastructure, Bridgeford Capital
! @ ! # @ ! Slack threads Email alerts

The Unresolved Pain

34%

of alerts are still handled manually outside Helio — routed through Slack threads, email chains, and ad-hoc DMs.

The Advanced Alerting module would automate triage, route to the right on-call engineer, and close the loop without human intervention.

WHY IT PERSISTS
Advanced Alerting module not included in current Core Monitoring plan
Cost of Inaction
210 hrs
per quarter
Engineering time wasted manually triaging noise that Helio Advanced Alerting would eliminate.
840
hours / year
~$126K
annual cost at $150/hr
5.25
FTE months lost

The Next 12 Months

MTTR Under 20 Minutes

Automated runbooks resolve common issues before human escalation

38 min → 18 min

Zero Manual Triage

All alerts route intelligently to the right engineer with context

34% → 0%

ML-Based Anomaly Detection

Predict incidents before they escalate using historical patterns

Live in Q4

Runbook Automation Enabled

Top-5 P1 playbooks execute automatically on trigger

5 playbooks / Q1
Current Plan

Core Monitoring

  • 1,840 active monitors
  • Basic alerting & dashboards
  • Manual triage workflows
Current MRR
$3,200 / mo
Expanded Plan

Advanced Alerting

  • 3,500 active monitors
  • Intelligent alert routing
  • ML anomaly detection
  • Automated runbook execution
New MRR
$11,600 / mo
+$8,400/mo · $101K annual investment
ROI: $126K saved vs. $101K invested = 25% net gain

Implementation Roadmap

Q3 2024
Jul – Sep

Advanced Alerting Go-Live

Deploy intelligent routing across all infrastructure monitors; migrate manual Slack workflows to automated triage

3,500 monitors active Zero manual triage
Q4 2024
Oct – Dec

Runbook Automation Launch

Automate top-5 P1 incident playbooks; enable self-healing for common degradation patterns

5 playbooks live MTTR under 20 min
Q1 2025
Jan – Mar

ML Anomaly Baseline Complete

Predictive alerting active; proactive incident prevention based on historical patterns and drift detection

Baseline trained Predictive alerts live

Partnership Health Matrix

Low High Low High Adoption Depth Business Impact BC Bridgeford Capital Top-right quadrant: High adoption, high impact Peer accounts (n=7)
The Next Step

Sign the Advanced Alerting
expansion before July 31

Monthly Investment
+$8,400
Annual Investment
$101K
Annual Savings
$126K
What's included:
3,500 monitors Intelligent routing ML anomaly detection Runbook automation
Your CSM
Sarah Osei
Implementation Start
August 5, 2024
Commitment Deadline
July 31, 2024