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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.


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Shelf
Company Website
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Stamford, CT
Twitter
@shelf_io
1,251 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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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.
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 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 Non-Profit Organization Management
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

I like it because is super easy to update and maintain. Creating articles is easy, and there are different ways to store and categorize different asset types like pictures, videos, and documents. They also have a browser version available for outside audiences which is critical for our needs. Also, the support team is great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Some changes would make it easier (ex. bulk tagging) or more customizable (ex. more report options), but those changes are in progress. Once you get used to working in the system, you will find ways to make tagging or report generation work for you. Another issue we had was that "connections" did not transfer to the self service portal version. There was a work around for this (and I believe this is also in progress), so it was not a deal breaker. We are pleased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Understand how connections work. Tour the self-service portal and reporting options to see if they will fulfill your needs.

If you are looking for an easy system to create, update, and maintain, it is fantastic. If you are lucky, Anna will be part of your implementation team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our old knowledge management software was clunky, hard to edit, and gave poor search results. Since switching to Shelf, we are solving all those problems. Our searches are more accurate, which results in a better experience for the user. The overall look and feel of the program is a definite upgrade. It's quick, effective, and satisfies our needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like the ease of access. It is an interactive platform which guides me efficiently to specific answers I need in my everyday job. It saves my time, and I find its features very helpful. If needed, I can browse easily through filters. All in all, it is a great tool which improves the efficiency of my job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

In my opinion, key word search could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

I highly recommend Shelf as it will ease your everyday work, once you start using it it will become your daily tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shelf is my go-to tool when finding solutions for some specific situations. I can consult it easily in order to find the answer I am looking for. It greatly saves my time as I can finish my tasks faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
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What do you like best about Shelf?

That I can save everything as a favorite, and there are many categories. Also, the last updates are shown on the home page so that you can notice them quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Sometimes I cannot find everything, but I think It's also what a company added or updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

It's a helpful tool that keeps your company's topics and uselful article well organized. Also, early users can add favorites in their account for topics or articles the use most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The shelf gives me tools that I use in my daily workload routine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RB
Operations manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf allows limitless indexing and document storage. Extremely fast, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

I can't think of anything. Shelf is working great for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have a massive number of processes that have been undocumented. Shelf is helping us get that organized so when key people are out, its easy to find solution to common problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf has a simple way to update processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The search field is not responsive, in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

We use Shelf all the time. Shelf helps us a lot in our internal processes and communication guidelines in the customer services area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use it to communicate company processes. (Customer Service) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Shelf?

Easy of searching and easy of adding/editing content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

There is noting I do not like about shelf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Users are getting answers to thier questions so they do not have to ask the team leads freeing the team leads up to monitor staffing requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KT
Trainer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Wow. Being there from the beginning to now, it has grown and has been very interesting to use. I love it. The creators were terrific. They answered every question that we had to make it user-friendly for our agents. Its very easy to use, agents are able to find their resources very quickly I'm excited to see the growth within shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

There's nothing that I do not like about it. its HELPFUL and amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ive realize its more helpful to our agents. they are able to find what they need without clicking and clicking to find their resources. its helpful to everyone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daulet T.
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At the moment, I am an agent in a delivery company that supports customers, couriers and partners
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

The platform is convenient because you do not need to open it and search for a separate link. Everything is at hand and you can immediately find the information you need. This is the main feature of this platform. The program allows you to reduce all the necessary information into a short report or article. This is very convenient if you have a lot of text that you can't remember yourself. It is convenient and easy to copy what you need directly from the platform. Nothing freezes and everything is clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The inconvenient thing is that sometimes this platform takes a long time to load. You have to update the bookmark several times to still find this or that information. It takes a little time while you solve the main problem. It can be difficult to find the information itself because the screen is very small. But in principle, it does not take much work. The search engine takes a long time to think, but it's also a small problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

Fill in as much as possible and think ahead to what information to leave there. It is advisable to already have your account to log in instantly. This will give you the ability to have more features. I would definitely recommend this program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The main problems that I solve through Shelf are finding the information I need in the shortest possible time. This gives me the ability to save time and space on my desktop. Without this platform, there were so many different documents with the same information. But now everything is structured and I can find what I need in one place, knowing that this document or information will not be lost. By solving these problems, I can save my free and working time. It is convenient that this platform is connected to my main work environment and helps me to solve all the issues related to documentation and storage of information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

I like the search feature where you can combine libraries, filters, categories, and the content type. It helps me narrow my searches and the user experience is much more friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Not being able to download multiple documents at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Shelf:

There are a lot of features SHELF has that other organization can benefit from. Since we have certain processes in-house, we cannot take advantage of all these features. I would suggest analyzing all the different processes within your organization, especially if you have Help Desk Call Center. You may be able to streamline a lot of your processes just by replacing it with SHELF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are currently working to figure out how we can let other teams be admins of their own libraries without being a SHELF admin. With the type of work we do, sometimes its a conflict of interest having other teams as admins as they rely on us to make changes. So when they have the capability of making changes, it makes it difficult to enforce our policies.

We've been approaching the USer Groups feature to address this issue as it allows users to be admin of their own libraries and view only in the remaining libraries on shelf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Access information, i pin favorite pages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Not friendly menu, interactive exercises Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

easy day to day tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.