Help-center verification · Early access

Your product changes.
Your help center keeps up.

HelpCenter.AI checks your help articles against your app and your product changes, then drafts updates to instructions and screenshots for your team to review.

  • Works with HelpCenter.io today
  • Your team approves every change
  • First audit needs no app credentials

A sample release, replayed

Fictional app. Press Ship v2.4, or let it play.

Acme · fictional sample app v2.4

01

Your help article says

In register · 12 Aug Out of register In register · today

Help center › Your team

Invite your team to Acme

  1. Open your Acme workspace.
  2. Click Invite teammates in the top-right corner. Go to Settings › Members and click Add members.
  3. Enter their email addresses and pick a role.
  4. Click Send invites.

Tip · written by Maria flagged for review If you don’t see Invite teammates, ask an admin for access.

02

Your product now does

PR #482 merged
  1. 09:41:02↳v2.4 renames “Invite teammates” → “Add members”
  2. 09:41:03≡3 articles mention “Invite teammates”
  3. 09:41:05▶Replaying “Invite a teammate” on staging
  4. 09:41:07✕Step 2: “Invite teammates” not found
  5. 09:41:09✓Found “Add members” in Settings › Members
  6. 09:41:10≠Screenshot 2 no longer matches the product
03

HelpCenter.AI proposes

worth a look approved

Block-level edit · 2 of 26 blocks change

Step 2

Click Invite teammates in the top-right corner.

Go to Settings › Members and click Add members.

Observed on today’s replay of v2.4.

Screenshot 2

Replaced with a fresh render from the same replay.

Tip · Maria’s words · protected

If you don’t see Invite teammates, ask an admin for access.

Mentions the old label. Flagged for you, not rewritten.

04

The screenshot, re-rendered

Observed
Checked
Today, 09:41
Where
Staging, v2.4
Signed in as
Admin · test account
Replayed
Steps 1–3 of “Invite a teammate”
Not run
Step 4 would email real people

I drafted a two-block update and re-rendered the screenshot. Maria’s tip still mentions the old label, so I flagged it instead of rewriting her words. Your call.

01 — The drift

Docs rot. Shipping makes it worse.

Every release quietly moves something your help center describes. Customers notice first, and so do the AI assistants answering questions about your product.

  1. 01

    Wrong the day after you ship

    A button is renamed, a setting moves, a flow gets shorter. Dozens of articles drift away from the product without anyone touching them.

  2. 02

    Finding what broke is the real work

    Writing a fix takes minutes. Working out which articles, steps and screenshots a release affected takes the afternoon, every release.

  3. 03

    Nobody’s full-time job

    At a growing SaaS, documentation belongs to everyone, so it belongs to no one. Upkeep happens in guilty batches before launches.

02 — The check

“Verified” should mean something.

A green tick means little if the check ran as an admin, on staging, last spring. HelpCenter.AI records how each instruction was checked, and says plainly what it couldn’t check.

Every statement carries one of four labels

  • Observed Seen in your product during a replay, by a named account, on a named build.
  • Inferred Derived from a release or code change, not yet replayed. Scheduled for the next check.
  • Imported Carried over from your existing help center. Your team’s words, not yet re-checked.
  • Unverified Could not be checked, and says why. Waits for a person instead of guessing.

Help center › Billing Sample

Export your invoices

2 observed1 inferred1 imported1 unverified

Observed Block 1 of 5

Replayed step 1 of “Export invoices”. The screen matched the published screenshot.

Checked
Today, 06:02
Build
Staging · v2.4
Signed in as
Billing admin · test account
Language
English
Evidence
Replay step 1 of 3 · screenshot 1

Observed Block 2 of 5

Replayed step 2. The date picker and its labels match the article.

Checked
Today, 06:02
Build
Staging · v2.4
Signed in as
Billing admin · test account
Language
English
Evidence
Replay step 2 of 3 · screenshot 2

Inferred Block 3 of 5

The button arrived in a pull request merged yesterday. Until tonight’s replay confirms it, the step says so.

Source
PR #501 · “Add CSV export to Invoices”
Merged
Yesterday, 17:20
Replayed
Not yet
Next check
Tonight, 06:00

Unverified Block 4 of 5

Not executed: the email would reach real people. Verified up to the confirmation screen. Needs a person’s judgment.

Stopped at
Confirmation screen
Why
Would email real billing contacts
Status
Needs your judgment

Imported Block 5 of 5

Written by your team and kept word for word. It hasn’t been re-checked against the product yet.

Source
Your existing article
Last edited
Sam Chen, 14 March
Re-checked
Not yet

How verification works

03 — The evidence

Checked against the product, not just the page.

Support tools learn from conversations. Docs platforms learn from your repository. HelpCenter.AI adds the source that can’t go stale: your product, used the way your customers use it.

  • Your app Signs in with a test account you provide and replays the flows your articles describe.
  • Releases Connect GitHub to link each merged change to the articles and screenshots it touches.
  • Your existing articles Import your help center. Your team’s wording is kept, and protected from rewrites.
  • Walkthrough videos Turn recordings into draft articles, with screenshots taken straight from the video.
  • Reader & support signals Searches with no result, comments and chat gaps decide what gets fixed first.

Register report Sample

Acme help center

142 articles checked against v2.4

  • ● 138 in register
  • ≠ 1 drifted · update drafted
  • ◐ 2 inferred · replay tonight
  • ? 1 needs your judgment

Next check · tomorrow 06:00

All five sources are part of early access. Reader signals depend on what your help-center and support tools expose, and every audit says when a signal wasn’t available.

04 — The difference

Your chatbot reads your docs. Your docs platform hosts them. Who checks them?

HelpCenter.AI doesn’t replace either. It’s the layer that checks what they rely on, against the product itself.

AI support agents

Built to
Resolve customer conversations.
Learns from
Conversations, tickets and the tools you connect.
With HelpCenter.AI
Answer from articles that were checked against the product.

Docs platforms with AI

Built to
Host, publish and search documentation.
Learns from
Your docs repository, API definitions and reader activity.
With HelpCenter.AI
Receive reviewed updates. Pull-request delivery is on our list.

HelpCenter.AI

Built to
Keep product help accurate as the product changes.
Learns from
Your running app, releases, existing articles, recordings and support signals.
Best at
Finds which instruction a release broke and drafts the fix, with evidence.

Read the full comparison

05 — The review

It proposes. You decide.

Updates arrive grouped by cause, evidence attached. Approve a rename once and it applies everywhere the rename reached. Nothing publishes without a person until you decide some updates can.

  • Your words stay yours Text your team wrote is protected. If it needs a change, it’s flagged for you, never quietly rewritten.
  • Only what changed Edits are block by block. In the sample above, 2 of 26 blocks change; the other 24 stay exactly as they were.
  • Autonomy is earned Start by reviewing everything. When a kind of update proves routine, such as screenshot refreshes, let it apply on its own. Revert anything.

Review 3 causes · 10 changes

    • Invite your team to Acme 2 blocks
    • Roles and permissions 1 block
    • Getting started with Acme 1 block
    • Screenshots re-rendered 4 images
    • Billing overview screenshot
    • Reports dashboard screenshot
  • needs you
    • New draft: Export your invoices 1 step unverified
    • One step describes an email I couldn’t send safely. A person decides.

Approve a cause once. It applies everywhere that cause reached.

06 — Start here

Start with an audit of the help center you already have.

Send us your help center’s address. We’ll check an agreed sample and show you what’s out of date, with the evidence behind every finding.

  1. 1

    Share a URL

    Your public help center. No app access needed to start.

  2. 2

    Agree the sample

    For example, the articles your customers read most. We confirm it with you by email.

  3. 3

    Get findings, with evidence

    Structural problems are kept apart from product-verified inaccuracies, so you know what was actually tested.

  4. 4

    Walk through a fix

    We take one proposed repair from finding to reviewed update, together.

Free during early access · No app credentials needed for the first audit

Assisted by a person from our team during early access.

A public-URL audit can show

  • Broken and outdated links
  • Missing or ageing screenshots
  • Duplicate and conflicting articles
  • Gaps in structure and navigation
  • How readable your content is for AI systems

What it can’t show yet

Whether steps still work inside your signed-in product. That needs a test account, and we’ll only ask when you’re ready.

Everything about the audit

07 — Where it publishes

Keep the help center you have.

HelpCenter.AI drafts, your team approves, and approved updates go where your readers already are. We label what works today and what comes next.

Available in early access

  • HelpCenter.ioApproved updates publish directly
  • Markdown exportClean files for any docs stack
  • llms.txtA machine-readable map of your help center

Next, chosen by pilot demand

  • Zendesk Guide
  • Intercom Articles
  • Crisp
  • Docs-as-codevia pull requests
  • API & webhooks

Machine-readable isn’t magic. Clean structure and llms.txt make your docs easier for AI systems to read, but no one can promise an assistant will cite you. Accuracy is the part we can improve.

08 — Safety

Your product is not a playground.

Giving an agent access to your app is a real decision. These are the rules it runs under, every session.

  • Credentials stay out of the model

    Test-account passwords sit in an encrypted vault and go straight to the browser. The AI model never sees them.

  • One isolated browser per session

    Created for the run and destroyed after it. No shared profiles, no shared cookies.

  • Destructive actions never run

    Deleting, sending and paying are documented up to the last safe screen, then stopped.

  • Every session is recorded

    Replay exactly what the agent did and saw, step by step.

From the team behind HelpCenter.io

We’ve spent years helping SaaS companies publish documentation and answer customers. HelpCenter.AI is the piece we kept wishing we had: the one that notices what changed.

  • HelpCenter.AI Checks the help center and drafts updates
  • HelpCenter.io Publishes it for your customers
  • HelpCenter.chat Answers in-app, and reports what customers couldn’t find

FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

What is HelpCenter.AI?

HelpCenter.AI keeps product documentation in step with the product. It checks your help articles against your app and your releases, finds instructions and screenshots that no longer match, and drafts updates for your team to review. It can also write new articles from first-hand use of your product, from walkthrough videos, and from questions customers couldn’t find answers to.

How does HelpCenter.AI know an article is out of date?

It replays the flows your articles describe inside your app, using a test account you provide, and compares what it sees with what the article says: button labels, locations, steps and screenshots. It reads release changes from GitHub to know which articles a change is likely to affect, and it watches reader signals such as searches that return nothing.

What does “verified” mean in HelpCenter.AI?

Every statement is labeled observed (seen during a replay), inferred (derived from a release change, not yet replayed), imported (carried over from your existing article) or unverified (couldn’t be checked, with the reason). An observed check records the date, build, environment and account role, because a check run as an admin on staging is not the same as what your customers see.

Will it make things up?

It’s built not to guess. Instructions come from what the agent did and saw in your product. Anything it couldn’t check is labeled unverified and left for a person to decide, and your team reviews every change before it’s published.

How is HelpCenter.AI different from an AI support agent?

AI support agents resolve customer conversations and often suggest knowledge improvements from them. HelpCenter.AI maintains the articles those agents answer from, and checks them against the product itself. The two work well together. Better sources help, but answer quality also depends on retrieval, instructions and escalation, so it’s worth measuring separately. See the comparison.

How is it different from a docs platform with an AI agent?

Docs platforms host and publish documentation, and many now include an agent that edits pages from your repository, API definitions or reader analytics. HelpCenter.AI is built around a different source of evidence: your running product. It proposes reviewed updates and publishes them to the help center you already use.

What is a help-center audit?

A bounded check of your existing help center. You share its URL, we agree a sample of articles, and you get findings with the evidence behind each one, with structural issues kept separate from product-verified inaccuracies. Then we walk through one proposed fix with you. It’s free during early access. How the audit works.

Do I need to give you access to my app?

Not to start. A public-URL audit needs only your help center’s address. To check steps inside your signed-in product you provide a test account; its password is kept in an encrypted vault and is never shared with the AI model.

Do I have to review everything it writes?

At first, yes. Updates wait for approval, grouped by cause, so one decision covers every article a change touched. Once a kind of update has proven routine, you can let it apply on its own, and you can revert anything.

Which help centers does it work with?

In early access: HelpCenter.io, with direct publishing, plus Markdown and llms.txt exports. Zendesk, Intercom, Crisp, docs-as-code via pull requests and an API are next, in the order pilot teams need them.

Does it help with AI search visibility?

It helps with the part you control: accurate, well-structured, current articles and an llms.txt file that AI systems can read. No tool can guarantee that an assistant will cite you; accurate sources make a correct answer more likely.

Is HelpCenter.AI available now?

It’s in early access with assisted onboarding, so we work alongside a small number of teams at a time. Request an audit to get started. Public pricing isn’t announced yet; early-access teams get founding terms.

What did your last release break?

Request an audit and find out, with the evidence behind every finding. Free during early access; no app credentials needed to start.

Free during early access · No app credentials needed for the first audit