Emma Clarke
Administration: holds all four keys
- Projects
- People
- Costs and margins
- Documents
What's the margin on project Beta?
The margin on project Beta is €12,700, 26% of revenue: €48,600 in revenue and €35,900 in costs.
An assistant that only sees what you can see, and never makes things up.
In hice everyone has their own set of keys: some open projects, others costs and margins too. The AI assistant uses the keys of whoever is writing to it. If a door is closed to you, it's closed to the assistant too, and it tells you so instead of guessing.
Included in the Business plan, with no usage costs.
- Projects
- People
- Costs and margins
- Documents
You hand out the keys. The assistant just uses them.
Decide who sees what
In hice, permissions follow the role: who sees projects, who sees people, who also sees costs and margins. You set it up once.
Ask in plain English
Write to the chat the way you'd write to a colleague: “What's the margin on project Beta?”
It only opens your doors
It reads margins, phases, who's working on what, tasks and documents, but only as far as your keys reach. Where they don't, it tells you.
Same question, two answers. Both correct.
Emma handles administration and can see costs. Mark leads project Beta, but he can't see costs. They ask the assistant the same thing.
Mark Bennett
Project manager: doesn't have the costs and margins key
- Projects
- People
- Costs and margins (a key they don't have)
- Documents
What's the margin on project Beta?
I can't see costs or margin for this project: ask Emma Clarke, who has access to the financial data.
Here's how it's going: phase 2 of 3 is under way.
Mark doesn't get an estimate or a “roughly”. He gets a clear no, the name of someone who can help, and what his own keys do let him know.
The rules it always follows
It prepares, it doesn't save.
It drafts tasks, risks, documents and change requests (the requests for changes you send to the client). It only saves them when you confirm.
It sees what you see.
It uses your permissions, not an administrator's. What's closed to you is closed to it.
It doesn't estimate or round.
If it can't read a number, it doesn't invent a plausible one. It tells you it can't see it and who to ask.
It speaks only when you ask.
It doesn't fill your chat with suggestions: it answers when you write to it. Important alerts, like a project nearing its end or a timesheet not submitted, arrive as normal notifications.
Works with ChatGPT and Claude too.
If your team already uses them, connect them to hice: they read your real data and let you check changes before they're saved.
If it doesn't know, it says so.
When something is beyond its reach, it says so and points you to support. No polite non-answers, no silent mistakes.
What you gain
Give the chat to your coordinators without opening the numbers to everyone.
Everyone sees what their role allows, even when they ask the AI.
You can trust the answers.
If there's a number, it was read from your data. If there isn't, it tells you: no plausible-looking figures to double-check.
Nothing changes by mistake.
The assistant prepares, you confirm. The final say on your company's data stays with you.
Give your team an assistant you can trust.
On the Business plan the chat is included, with no usage costs for AI. The people who coordinate and approve use it from day one, with no training.
- Free for up to 10 people
- No credit card required
- Data migration with Business