KnowDesk

KnowDesk

Flat-rate AI customer support platform for growing SMBs with 300+ agents in one product.
Lisbon, Portugal
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Overview

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Inc
Phase
MVP
Founded
2026
Team Size
2

Industries

AI & Machine LearningSoftware & SaaSAutomation & Robotics

Impacts

Workforce DevelopmentLocal Economic DevelopmentFinancial InclusionSmall Business SupportInnovation & Technology Transfer

What Drives Us

Mission

Our mission is to make great customer support affordable for every growing business, not just the ones big enough to afford a full support team or an expensive enterprise helpdesk. An agent shouldn't spend half their day digging through scattered docs for an answer a machine could find instantly, and a small business shouldn't have to choose between paying per seat for a helpdesk or leaving customers waiting. We want KnowDesk to be the default way a 10-person team gives customers an instant, accurate answer on any channel at a price that doesn't punish them for growing.

Problem

Growing e-commerce and service businesses hit a wall somewhere around 10-30 people. Tickets pile up faster than a small team can answer them, and the usual fix is hiring more agents or adding seats to Zendesk or Intercom, which gets expensive fast, sometimes doubling the bill overnight. Most of what agents spend their day on is repetitive: where's my order, how do I return this, what's my account status; questions whose answers already exist somewhere in the company's docs, store, or payment system, just not in a place anyone can search fast enough. The result is slow response times, customers who stop coming back, and a founder or ops lead clearing the backlog themselves at 11 pm instead of running the business.

Solution

KnowDesk connects to a business's existing knowledge base, such as Google Docs, Notion, Confluence, PDFs, a website, and its live systems - Shopify, Stripe, Paystack, WhatsApp, Slack, email, etc.- and answers customer questions instantly and correctly, around the clock, across whichever channel the customer picked. It's not limited to FAQs: it can look up a real order or refund status, hand off to a human with full context the moment it can't help, and let a team migrate off their old per-seat helpdesk and coach their agents' quality - all inside one flat-rate subscription that doesn't get more expensive as the team or ticket volume grows.

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