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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.
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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Amanda T.
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Business Intelligence Analyst III
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf makes it easier for us to search for documents and share content between departments that normally would need to be shared by email Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

we have not found anything we dislike yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shelf has made it easier for teams to share content that they rely on with other teams making it easier for everyone to work more efficiently together Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to use search feature. The agents are able to be more self sufficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Not that I can think of right now. It is working the way we expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Agents are able to have more information at their fingertips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Shelf has a easy user experience and a simple design that allows you to simply use the tool. The account management department is also a plus on this company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The tool is created for use of their own tools. Meaning that exporting data to their (from google docs to a page) is not the best experience, with lots of bugs that are not fixed from shelf as it originated in a third party Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Shelf we've been able to assure that all teams are updated in the processes of RTO as well as the union of all information in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adem .
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Senior Agent
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

The most I like are the organization, transparency, and detailed explanations. I recommend it to everyone, because of the possibility of learning, progress, and efficiency in work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Sometimes I fail to find a particular situation using the search option, and I have to go step by step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All the information I need can be found using Shelf. The advantage is that everything is in one place and speeds up the process of finding the necessary information. It helps to detect problems and solve cases according to the procedure, for which I am not sure which is correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shelf's state-of-the-art AI search and its ability to filter search results by categories and tags to get exactly what you are looking for make it a top-of-the-line KMS solution. Shelf can also integrate itself with other platforms, enabling the Shelf search to appear contextually when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Left navigation menu customization needs to be built out more. Having a more customizable UI would help Shelf feel more catered to a company's specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are solving data organization problems and ease of access issues with Shelf. We have realized a decreased time to find resources utilizing Shelf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

I like the decision tree, which helps to create friendly descriptions for different files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Filters. With a bunch of different files and folders but related information, it is not easy to determine where the information you want is located. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A smart way to collect a lot of information in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MJ
Senior Analyst, Service Desk
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

Simple integrations that assist agents to easily locate the required information and Decision trees which help you provide detailed step by step instructions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

- Unavailability of a html editor to edit the content

- Unable to link to a particular section in a decision tree Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have been able to simplify detailed lengthy processes and present them in a simpler structure.

Our agents are able to make decisions on the fly and assist our customer easily based on their various needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like the user interface because it is super easy to use. Shelf is constantly enhancing features so the user experience continues to improve. The site provides a great way to organize content and keep track of user interaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

Since there are so many features with Shelf, I have not had the chance to use everything available. Some features such as the decision tree, has not been utilized much by my organization although it seems like it could be a helpful tool to other groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using wiki gems in my organization makes it very easy to communicate to my team important status updates with our systems. Also, having the Knowledge Base library allows us to ensure the correct information is provided to everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bekarys S.
BS
LiveOps agent
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
What do you like best about Shelf?

I like cataloging and quick search by tags and words in the service. It speeds up the process of searching for information, you can save everything to your favorites and conveniently view the information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

I like cataloging and quick search by tags and words in the service. It speeds up the process of searching for information, you can save everything to your favorites and conveniently view the information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With the help of the Shelf, we solve the problem of storing and reading information about work. This is a personal wikipedia for work. All innovations are introduced here. All procedures are fully described in steps. The main thing is that there is a search for information by keywords. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rudy C.
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Knowledge specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shelf?

I love the fact that it's possible to build decision trees, as well as the integrations they allow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shelf?

The visuals are a bit rudimentary on the front end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We've managed to improve our KPIs by providing a great knowledge solution to our users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.