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Helio

A consumer banking app that makes your money legible at a glance.

Sector
Fintech
Build time
5 day build
Year
2026
Role
Product strategy, UX/UI design, Engineering
app.helio.money
Total balance $12,480.50 ● Safe to spend · $3,210
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NorthvaneShopping −$84.00
PayrollIncome +$3,500
Daily GrindFood −$4.80
Overview

Helio is a concept build exploring how an AI-native team ships a polished, trustworthy fintech surface in days — not the two quarters a bank would quote. The whole product is organised around one idea: the number you opened the app for should be the first thing you see.

01 — The challengeWhat we were solving

Most banking apps bury your balance under cards, carousels and cross-sell. The one number you came for takes three taps to trust. We wanted a dashboard that answers "how am I doing?" before you've finished unlocking your phone.

02 — The approachHow we built it

We generated a dozen dashboard directions with AI in an afternoon, curated hard to one calm layout, then built a working prototype on a double-entry ledger model so the numbers actually reconcile. Spend categorisation runs on a lightweight classifier; everything else is in service of clarity.

More from the build
app.helio.money / send
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AOAda Okaforhelio · @ada
$250.00
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Send in two taps

A transfer flow that confirms who and how much before you commit — fast, but never careless.

app.helio.money / insights
This month · spending
Shopping38%
Food24%
Transport18%
Other20%
Shopping
Food
Transport
03

Spending, made obvious

Auto-categorised insights with a glanceable breakdown, so you see where it went without doing the maths.

What's inside
01

Glanceable balance

Your real balance and safe-to-spend, above the fold, always.

02

Auto-categorised spend

Transactions sort themselves into clear buckets — no manual tagging.

03

Instant send

A two-tap transfer flow with confirmation that feels safe, not scary.

04

Reconciled ledger

A double-entry core behind the UI, because money bugs are unforgivable.

By the numbers
0 Days, brief to prototype
0 Screens designed
0 Designer-engineer
0 AI-assisted build

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