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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.
SG
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.
CV
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 Media

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

Categories and the rating system is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The search function could use a little more tuning so it can find pages faster, for example by just typing parts of the titles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shelf solves the problem of finding instructions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is easy to use search tool with different words. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Kind of boring looking. Not really much that i dislike tho Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All the instructions and guides can be found there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kathryn L.
KL
Customer Operations Coordinator
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Being able to analyse interaction of users, being able to link other resources (e.g. google sheets) into a gem so users have everything they need in one place, decision trees are very beneficial to ensure agents follow internal processes & procedures whilst understanding them too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Analysis can sometimes be difficult as for some features, you are unable to manipulate the date range. You have to create custom preview images for lots of types of gems, otherwise they look plain and do not appeal to agents who may not click on your content as a result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Shelf is a great tool to have content readily available for customer care agents to use alongside their interactions. You can track their engagement, too, so you know if users are reading the content you've created. Users can also let you know how they rate the content you've made, providing opportunities for continuous improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have moved all resources from google sheets/docs into Shelf so users can find everything they need within the app rather than having tab after tabs open on their browser. We can track how much users are engaging with content and they can also let us know what they think of content by rating/commenting on gems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KW
Group Coordinator - Administrative Assistant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

I love how organized, straightforward forward and user-friendly this app is. It is a perfect way to organize a large number of resources and information. I love how it gives you the option to create personal favorites and pinned content. I think technically challenged people would even find this helpful app and easy to navigate. I would highly recommend this to any organization! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

I have yet to come across something I dislike about Shelf! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Shelf is the best way for an organization to organize an abundance of information. Since we implemented this program in our everyday use, it has been so much easier to find information. Shelf is highly user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our program struggled with having too many places to store information, too many versions, and our staff had trouble locating the most up-to-date document. Shelf completely solved this issue by allowing there to be one updated version in an organized area that everyone can access very easily using the search feature. I love that you can pin the most frequently used documents to your home page to save time searching through multiple locations to find the paper needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
AH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Everyone is so helpful and easy to work with. All my questions were answered immediately. I think the program is a great concept and helpful in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

I can't think of any complaints. My experience has been very good with shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

It is a program that may not seem the highest priority, however, it allows employees to work quicker and more efficiently. A must have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Updating information and letting others access it immediately. People are more aware of changes in the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erika G.
EG
Senior Associate of Content Management & Communication
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

It is great to have one resource to save and share information. If gems are properly added with the correct tags, categories, titles, and descriptions, it makes sharing knowledge easy for the organization. I also like that gems can be connected to other gems to make locating relevant information seamless. Shelf also works with other software we use, making information retrieval more intuitive than always needing to manually search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

If there are many collaborators, it is important to keep aligned for consistency in adding and organizing gems. If collaborators are not adding information with the same outlined structure, it can get confusing. Communication is key to keep the tool clean and useful. Make sure everyone who is contributing is aligned on a centralized structure to avoid clean up later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Shelf is a great tool to keep information resources centralized. Just make sure any collaborators are aligned on how information should be entered so that everyone doesn't have their own system for organizing content. Having a solid foundation when starting makes implementing new features easier, and contributes to a better user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used to use several platforms to store and share information across our organization. It was a lot to manage and remember. With Shelf, everything is accessible in one platform. We no longer need to open several pages of information, and onboarding new employees is much easier when they can access everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf is very clear system and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

excel documents are unable to update in Shelf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can tag gems to my team members and I can see who has read the instructions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf is very user-friendly compared to Sharepoint, which we were using before. Searching works like a charm and editing is made very simple. Also adding HTML-features is a huge step up for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Some functions like adding, opening and using Windows-based files (like Outlook message templates) are not fully supported. Also uploading an object requires creating a separate gem page which can be a bit awkward at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing major. We learn as we progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rosa S.
RS
Quality Assurance Analyst
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

The information is easy to read and favorite my article. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Search function is not always easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use this as a Knowledge Management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Shelf?

It's easy to use and relatively easy to search documents in Shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

It's not working well with for example Excel -documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to find company instructions and easy to modify instructions within Shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.