I don't want to write an RFC for this right now, as I think it'd be better to prototype the code first during render, we always know the owner. so when when invoking a helper (plain function or not), we could do: ```js // internal psuedo-code setActiveOwner() // global invokeHelper(usersHelper) // the users helper clearActiveOwner(); // global ``` and then ```js function usersHelper() { let owner = getOwner(); assert('..', owner); let service = owner.lookup('...'); return service.format(....) } ``` this way folks don't need to use class-based helpers or resources to get access to the owner.