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- Ferndesk is a hosted customer help center with an AI agent, Fern, that checks each article against your connected codebase, live product and support inbox, then drafts corrections for human approval before publishing.
More detail
- It also ships a public help center, an in-app AI widget, OpenAPI reference pages, private and translated docs, and search analytics, and it keeps your existing helpdesk for tickets rather than replacing it.
- Best for
- SaaS teams whose product changes weekly and whose help docs fall behind, and teams already using GitHub plus a helpdesk (Intercom, Zendesk, Help Scout and similar) who want to keep ticketing where it is and replace only the help-center layer.
- Pricing
- One Pro plan at $149/month, or $1,490/year (two months free), with a 7-day free trial and no credit card.
More detail
- Pro includes 5 seats, 1,000 AI conversations/month, 5 translated languages, 10+ integrations, API and MCP access, and the continuation of Fern's verification runs.
- Teams under $1M ARR with fewer
- Main limitation
- Teams that must keep their docs inside their current tool, since Fern only verifies and updates articles that live in Ferndesk and you must migrate your help center first.
More detail
- Also a poor fit for teams seeking SOC 2 Type II today, SAML SSO or SCIM outside Enterprise, or large conversation volumes on Pro's 1,000/month AI limit.
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About
- Ferndesk is a hosted customer help center with an AI agent, Fern, that checks each article against your connected codebase, live product and support inbox, then drafts corrections for human approval before publishing.
- It also ships a public help center, an in-app AI widget, OpenAPI reference pages, private and translated docs, and search analytics, and it keeps your existing helpdesk for tickets rather than replacing it.
What it helps with
- Help articles go stale after renamed plans, moved buttons, killed features or broken links, and nobody notices until a c
- AI chatbots give wrong answers because they are trained on outdated or incomplete documentation.
- Repeat questions flood the support inbox because customers cannot find answers themselves.
- Documentation gaps are invisible to the team until they show up as tickets or churn.
- Moving help centers between tools risks broken links and lost search rankings.
- API reference docs and customer help docs live in different tools, so search reaches only one of them.
- Manual editing of every page each time the API or UI changes gets skipped until docs and product disagree.
Capabilities
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| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Article verification against your product | Yes | Fern checks each article claim against the connected codebase and live product and returns the correction with a reason for approval. |
| Human approval before publishing | Yes | Nothing publishes without a person or an authorized API/MCP tool publishing it; the terms state AI output can be wrong and must be reviewed. |
| Keeps docs in your existing helpdesk | No | Fern only updates articles that live in Ferndesk; you must import your help center first, though your ticketing tool stays where it is. |
| Migration from other help centers | Yes | One-click import from Intercom, Zendesk, Crisp, Help Scout, HubSpot, GitBook and Document360 with URLs preserved and redirects created, usually under ten minutes. |
| In-app self-service widget with AI chat | Yes | One script tag; customers ask in plain language and get answers from verified docs, with handoff to Intercom, Zendesk or Help Scout when it cannot answer. |
| API reference from OpenAPI/Swagger | Yes | Import JSON or YAML or point at a URL; endpoints render with schemas, auth walkthroughs, code samples and a try-it playground alongside customer docs. |
| Automated screenshots and scheduled audits | Yes | Screenshots are re-taken when the UI changes and weekly audits scan the support inbox, forums and releases for gaps. |
| Translations | Limited | Five languages included on Pro, with glossary and language-prefixed routes; more languages need add-ons whose price is not published. |
| AI conversation volume | Limited | 1,000 conversations per month on Pro and 2,500 on Enterprise; overage is sold as add-ons but no rate is published. |
| Codebase connection without GitHub | Unknown | The vendor's own FAQ asks "What if we're not on GitHub?" and code-to-docs describes GitHub scanning; support for other repositories is not documented. |
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