diff --git a/alpine.ts b/alpine.ts
index a42c4f6..fd2f55a 100644
--- a/alpine.ts
+++ b/alpine.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { cwd } from "node:process";
-import { execFile } from "./helpers.js";
+import { execFile } from "./helpers/better-api";
 
 export class Alpine {
   dir: string;
diff --git a/helpers/better-api.ts b/helpers/better-api.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf8e656
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpers/better-api.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { promisify } from "node:util";
+import {
+  execFile as execFileCallback,
+  spawn as spawnCallback,
+} from "node:child_process";
+import { access } from "node:fs/promises";
+
+export const execFile = promisify(execFileCallback);
+export const spawn = promisify(spawnCallback);
+
+export async function canAccess(path: string): Promise<boolean> {
+  try {
+    await access(path);
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/helpers.ts b/helpers/sudo.ts
similarity index 51%
rename from helpers.ts
rename to helpers/sudo.ts
index 3d4532d..bc383d2 100644
--- a/helpers.ts
+++ b/helpers/sudo.ts
@@ -1,22 +1,5 @@
-import { promisify } from "node:util";
-import {
-  execFile as execFileCallback,
-  spawn as spawnCallback,
-} from "node:child_process";
-import { access } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { getuid } from "node:process";
-
-export const execFile = promisify(execFileCallback);
-export const spawn = promisify(spawnCallback);
-
-export async function canAccess(path: string): Promise<boolean> {
-  try {
-    await access(path);
-    return true;
-  } catch {
-    return false;
-  }
-}
+import { execFile } from "./better-api";
 
 export async function sudoChown(path: string, owner: string): Promise<void> {
   await execFile("sudo", ["chown", owner, path]);
diff --git a/index.ts b/index.ts
index 20f351e..638b813 100644
--- a/index.ts
+++ b/index.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { cwd } from "node:process";
 import { Alpine } from "./alpine.js";
-import { execFile, spawn, sudoChownToRunningUser } from "./helpers.js";
+import { execFile } from "./helpers/better-api.js";
+import { sudoChownToRunningUser } from "./helpers/sudo.js";
 import { setupKernel } from "./kernel.js";
 import { runQemu } from "./qemu.js";
 import { Runit } from "./runit/index.js";
diff --git a/kernel.ts b/kernel.ts
index 7ac0225..9b79b82 100644
--- a/kernel.ts
+++ b/kernel.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import { constants } from "node:fs";
 import { copyFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { Alpine } from "./alpine.js";
-import { canAccess, sudoChownToRunningUser, sudoRm } from "./helpers.js";
+import { canAccess } from "./helpers/better-api.js";
+import { sudoChownToRunningUser, sudoRm } from "./helpers/sudo.js";
 
 export type Kind = "lts" | "virt";
 export type Kernel = {
diff --git a/qemu.ts b/qemu.ts
index b49a1fb..857def3 100644
--- a/qemu.ts
+++ b/qemu.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
-import { execFile } from "./helpers.js";
+import { execFile } from "./helpers/better-api.js";
 import { Kernel } from "./kernel.js";
 
 export async function runQemu(