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Shelf Overview

What is Shelf?

Shelf is a modern knowledge platform that helps on-demand businesses improve service and increase productivity with fast, helpful answers to customer and employee questions. Shelf's MerlinAI listens for questions and instantly suggests the best answers in search, self-service portals, web forms, chat, CRM, support apps, and contact center platforms. Identify gaps between questions and answers with Shelf analytics and automate content publishing to every channel. Rated #1 for ease of use.

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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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Product Description

Shelf is a content sharing platform designed to help distributed teams organize, declutter, and instantly find their most important resources in one place.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Shelf goes far beyond traditional knowledge management by embedding our proprietary MerlinAI across the entire platform.
MerlinAI matches questions to answers, so customers and agents spend less time searching for information and more time solving problems.
With Shelf admins no longer have to manage the entire knowledge lifecycle themselves since it’s fully automated.
Shelf’s Agent Assist integrates into your CCaaS, CRM, and support systems to shorten response time and increase agent productivity. Agents can also use simple decision trees and search the entire library without the need to switch screens. No more knowledge silos – save time and money with simpler infrastructure.
Our customers improve deflection by up to 25% by resolving low-effort inquiries via fully-branded self-service portal, smarter chatbots, and AI-powered answers in forms. With Shelf, you can provide reliable, 24/7 customer service and scale your support volume while saving costs.


Seller Details
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Shelf
Company Website
HQ Location
Stamford, CT
Twitter
@shelf_io
1,251 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
211 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Shelf is a knowledge management platform designed to help organizations streamline their information sharing and improve team collaboration. It offers tools for content organization, search, and retrieval, enabling users to easily access and manage their knowledge resources. By integrating with various applications and providing a user-friendly interface, Shelf aims to enhance productivity and ensure that teams have the right information at their fingertips. For more information, visit their website at https://shelf.io.


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Sean G.
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Sean G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Knowledge Retrieval and Management as it should be"
Integration with our contact center solution was seamless and easy. The Search Copilot feature has significantly reduced time spent by our agents ...
Heather D.
HD
Heather D.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Seeking a Better Way with Shelf"
With a focus of excellence, Shelf was a clear choice when selecting this platform for our knowledge management system. Our experience with Shelf so...
Christine V.
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Christine V.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"An easy way to elevate your team and product!"
1) Shelf is most helpful when it comes to content managing. The automatic reminders and allowing different individuals to have a peice in the creat...
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Shelf Demo - Shelf Knowledge Platform Homepage
The Shelf modern knowledge management platform helps businesses thrive with on-demand answers to the questions that block customer and employee success.
Shelf Demo - AI-Powered Search
Save valuable time with AI-powered pinpoint faceted accurate search
Shelf Demo - Analytics
Our powerful analytics suite helps you understand what content is most used, what needs to be changed, and what's going out-of-date. Dashboards visualize your key results and metrics to quickly understand performance across knowledge, teams and users.
Shelf Demo - Shelf <> Genesys Integration
Embed Agent Assist to deliver right answers in the Genesys agent's interface. Agents can also search the entire content library directly from the Shelf widget.
Shelf Demo - Shelf <> Salesforce Integration
Shelf’s Managed Package for Salesforce provides direct access to your organization’s knowledge library. No custom implementation required, a simple installation with minimal configuration needs combines the power of Salesforce and Shelf.
Shelf Demo - Shelf <> Kustomer Integration
Our Kustomer integration brings knowledge automation to your support CRM platform of choice—powering better knowledge retrieval for deflection tools and chatbots, as well as the most accurate Agent Assist in market.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

With Shelf we have found that building a tool based on knowledge management (KM) principles makes all the difference. Pieces that a knowledge manager needs to amplify information are already worked into the tool. The ease, usability, and flexibility allow us to respond to fast-moving changes that are required for our clients and have put us in a fantastic position with our contracts and clients. We need to be responsive with our content and Shelf allows us to do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Any issue that we've had with Shelf thus far, we've had the support team be responsive to and help problem-solve a resolution. If it's a business requirement or technical limitation based on our current structure, Shelf has supported us to make utilize the tools flexibility to solve these problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

I highly recommend Shelf as a tool and a company to work with. I've had experiences with many KB, CRM, DXP software implementations and Shelf's implementation has been the smoothest and most organized I've experienced. The design of the software allows you to implement your KM strategy and reap the rewards of enterprise KM. I've been impressed with how versatile the software is to meet our requirements, goals, and objectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

The concept of Shelf's gems brings us versatility in our content. We are no longer limited by the format and software design to communicate in diverse formats required to get the job done well and quickly. This provides our users with a great experience and allows them to feel confident and supported to do their job. Good information alone is not enough, it needs to be easily found and accessible to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DL
Technical Support Content Developer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

What I like about Shelf the most is that it's user-friendly. With any software, that's what I look for the most. When common people can't navigate through the software, that's an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

My least favorite thing about Shelf is probably some functions when creating documents. There are some things that other software has "trained" people to do, that Shelf isn't able to. It's hard to explain really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Take your time and be patient. Think about the goal you're trying to accomplish before executing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

The searchability is great with tags and descriptions. I love connecting documents to similar documents. I think that the easier it is to find the answer you're looking for, the better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

I think that the website has been designed easy to access and it is very easy to read and search information. Also the search tool is very good! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The most annoying this is that the email-layout does not work always as ment to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Self solves my work problems if I need to check some rules out, I could not live without it :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Noemi M.
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Customer Service Supervisor
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Decision Trees have to be the best! They have so much information and really guide the team on certain processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The 'Tags' added to the articles make some information hard to locate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge Management System for new hires. I was a Trainer prior and a lot of the information reviewed is easily accessible in Shelf! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Käyttöliittymän helppous on mielyttävä kokemus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Joskus on liikaa vaihtoehtoja näkyvillä. Tai ainakin kun on vähän vasta kokemusta Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Säilytystilaa Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

The support from Shelf at every step during the RFP, to their support during the procurement and implementation has been outstanding. The high level of support was certainly a factor in choosing Shelf over other solutions. Some of Shelf's features that stood out are their integration capabilities, agent assist feature that pushed content to agents based on the content of the tickets, the different content types such as wiki, FAQ and decision tree articles and their powerful content maintenance features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Currently Shelf don't have standardized article templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem we are solving is having a single KB that all agents can access across multiple geo-locations. A single source of truth where content is being maintained. Reducing customer interaction AHT by pushing knowledge articles to agents instead of agents having to search for knowledge articles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf has now all our necessary information regarding our work with guides etc. I specifically like the search function that is far more inclusive compared to our previous option and that you can "favourite" the things you use daily for easy access. Shelf is also easier to navigate when looking through categories, they're all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The support for excel files is the only thing I can think of that is missing, but they are mostly stored locally so it's not that big of an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Certain guides and listings are used at my job daily, having an easy-to-find and easy-to-search place to find them is a big plus. The biggest benefit is the search option which was quite case and word specific earlier now works with Shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marta N.
MN
IT Business Analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Collaboration, constant improvement, speed of answer, modern app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Haven't found any disadvantages so far. Shelf is open for customer suggestions for improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge management system in one place which is modern and easy for users, getting rid of internet explorer finally Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KN
Training and Development Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf allows our company to have all our resources in one place. It allows our employees to search for this information in an easy manner increasing their work performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

I have not come across any downsides when using Shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Partnering with Shelf will help improve your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Shelf increases work performance within our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

The possibility to favourite pages makes it a lot easier to access the pages that I use the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The search works best on the front page, so if I wanted to go to another page instead I should go to the front page and do the search there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shelf solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping the instructions needed in the same place and accessing the pages is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.