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What does Help Scout do?

Tool: Help Scout

The Tech: Customer Support

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Their Pitch

AI clears the way. Your support team creates the impact.

Our Take

It's a shared inbox that turns email chaos into organized customer conversations. Think Gmail for support teams, but with AI that actually helps instead of just existing.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Your team keeps answering the same shipping questions 50 times a day** → AI Answers pulls from your knowledge base and responds instantly
  • +**Customer emails get lost between team members and nothing gets resolved** → Shared inbox shows who's handling what, prevents double replies
  • +**New support hires sound like robots or take forever to write responses** → AI Assist helps them write like pros in one click
  • +**Customers can't find basic info and create tickets instead** → Knowledge base with search lets them help themselves
  • +Beacon chat widget appears when customers seem stuck - catches problems before they email

Best For

  • >Your team is drowning in customer emails across 5 different inboxes
  • >You're tired of customers asking the same 10 questions over and over
  • >Support feels like playing phone tag with angry people

Not For

  • -Solo founders or tiny teams under 5 people — you're paying team prices for individual problems
  • -Enterprise companies needing heavy customization — this is built for simplicity, not complexity
  • -Teams where phone support is the main thing — the phone features are pretty basic

Pairs With

  • *Slack (where your team gets notified about urgent support tickets and celebrates good customer feedback)
  • *Shopify (pulls order details directly into conversations so you're not asking customers for order numbers)
  • *Zapier (to automatically create tickets from other sources like contact forms or social media)
  • *HubSpot (syncs customer data so support can see purchase history and previous interactions)
  • *Jira (when customer issues turn into actual bugs that need developer attention)

The Catch

  • !The pricing adds up fast once you need multiple agents and advanced features
  • !You'll spend time setting up knowledge base articles upfront or the AI features won't work well
  • !Mobile app is decent but you'll still prefer the desktop for complex customer issues

Bottom Line

The support tool that doesn't make you hate doing support.