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Autessa Support Desk · Help desk software

The help desk with a customer portal built in

Autessa Support Desk is help desk ticketing software for your support team and a branded Help Center for your customers. Emails become tickets, AI triage routes them, SLAs keep time, AI drafts the reply and a person sends it. Customers search answers, ask an AI assistant, follow their requests and help each other. It works out of the box, and you shape it to how your team supports customers inside Autessa.

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For your teamFor your customersAI that drafts, routes and checks
Help Center · My requestsSample
Invoice shows the wrong billing addressWe’re on it
Dana (you)
Our October invoice still has our old address. Can you fix it before our finance close?
9:02
Sam · Acme Support
Done. I updated the billing address and reissued invoice INV-2207. You’ll find it under Billing, Invoices.
9:14 · also sent by email

Was this helpful? · Close request · Share with a colleague

Ticket #1042Sample
Billing › InvoicesHighFirst reply met · 12m
Copilot drafted a replyConfidence 0.86

Grounded in: “Update your billing address” · Ticket #988

Load to editUse as written
Internal note
@Priya reissue once the address saves. Customer is on the Enterprise plan.
TriageBilling · auto-assigned to Sam
Resolution goalOn track · 5h 40m left

Does Autessa have a help desk?

Yes. Autessa Support Desk is a complete customer support ticketing system with a customer self-service portal. It includes email-to-ticket for Gmail and Outlook, a shared ticket queue and board, AI ticket triage and routing, assignment groups, SLA management with first-response and resolution targets, reply templates, automation rules, AI-drafted replies, a knowledge base, a branded Help Center with an AI help assistant, a customer community forum, CSAT and help desk reporting.

Ticketing

Email-to-ticket, queue, board, merge, templates

Routing and SLAs

AI triage, groups, plans, rules

Customer portal

Help Center, requests, assistant, community

Knowledge base

Articles, documents, semantic search

One product, two sides

For your team, and for your customers

Most help desks bolt a portal onto a ticketing tool. Support Desk was built as one conversation seen from both ends, so what your team does and what your customer sees always match.

For your team

The support desk

  • A shared queue and a board for every ticket
  • Replies and internal notes with @mentions
  • AI triage, assignment groups and auto-assignment
  • First-response SLAs and resolution goals that pause
  • AI reply drafts, a ticket copilot and an article writer
  • Reports, Weekly Insights and a leaderboard
For your customers

The Help Center

  • Search articles, guides and solved questions
  • An AI help assistant that answers from your knowledge
  • Submit requests with files, follow every reply
  • Close, reopen and share requests with colleagues
  • A community forum to ask and answer
  • Your logo, color and footer links throughout

What makes it different

Where it goes beyond a typical help desk

Beyond a typical help desk

AI drafts the reply. A person sends it.

When a customer writes in, a cited draft is waiting, grounded in your articles, documents and past tickets, with a confidence score. Your agent reviews, edits and presses Send.

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AI Drafts · Needs review (3)Sample
#1049 Can’t add a second adminConfidence 0.78

Hi Lee, the Add admin button is disabled when your plan’s seats are all in use. You can free a seat or upgrade under Billing…

Why this reply · grounded in

Article: Seat limits by planTicket #988
Load to editUse as writtenReject

A person always presses Send.

Beyond a typical help desk

Triage that reads like a teammate

An AI triage agent matches each ticket to your groups’ own descriptions, sets group, subcategory, priority and category, suggests an owner and tags the recurring issue.

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AI triage · Ticket #1051Sample
New ticket
I was charged twice for the annual plan this morning.
GroupBilling
SubcategoryRefunds
PriorityUrgent
CategoryBilling
Suggested ownerSam (group lead)
Issue signatureduplicate-charge-annual
Confidence0.91
Beyond a typical help desk

Every AI answer gets checked

Your Help Center assistant answers customers, and every conversation is graded for task completion, grounding and whether anyone was misled.

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Assistant Analytics · Needs reviewSample

Satisfied

212

Neutral

31

Unsatisfied

9

What the customer asked for: cancel and get a prorated refund

Partly completedNot grounded · missing conditionMisled the customer
Beyond a typical help desk

Support that tells product what to build

A Weekly Insights digest turns tickets into rising issues, product friction and what to build next, ready to copy as Markdown.

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Weekly Insights · Week of Nov 2Sample

The week in words. Volume rose with the new invoice layout; seat-limit questions doubled after the plan change.

Rising issues

seat-limit-add-admin+14
invoice-address-change+6

What to build next

Explain the seat limit on the Add admin button.

Copy as MarkdownGenerate now
Beyond a typical help desk

Reach out before they ask

Tell affected customers about an issue: each person gets their own email and their own ticket, and replies thread straight back.

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Reach out · Tell customers before they askSample
Who to reachEveryone at Northwind (4) · lee@contoso.example
TemplatePlanned maintenance notice
RoutingLet triage decide

What they’ll get

To Lee Park
Hi Lee, on Saturday from 2 to 3 a.m. exports will be paused while we upgrade storage…

Each person gets their own email and their own ticket, so replies stay private. Tickets wait on the customer.

Beyond a typical help desk

A community inside your Help Center

Customers answer each other by topic, staff replies carry a badge, and solved questions show up in search.

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Community · IntegrationsSample

How do I run an export every weekday morning?

Mei · customer
I use a scheduled export with the weekday preset. Steps below…
Accepted answer
Sam · Staff
Great tip. We also wrote this up as an article.
PinnedReportModerated from Support Desk

How it works

How does a ticket move through Autessa Support Desk?

From the first message to next week’s product priorities. Coral is your customer, violet is the AI, teal is your team.

  1. 1Customer

    Customer asks

    Email, Help Center or the assistant

  2. 2AI

    AI triage routes

    Group, subcategory, priority, owner

  3. 3Team

    SLA clocks start

    First response and resolution goal

  4. 4AI

    AI drafts a reply

    Grounded, cited, waiting for review

  5. 5Team

    A person sends

    In the same email thread, branded

  6. 6Customer

    Resolved, rated

    CSAT on the ticket

  7. 7AI

    Knowledge grows

    Draft an article from the ticket

  8. 8Team

    Weekly Insights

    Rising issues and what to build next

Product tour · for your team

Every screen in the support desk

Organized the way the sidebar is: Work, Knowledge, Insights and Setup.

Home

Open tickets, tickets needing an owner, SLA breaches, resolved today, 30-day service levels, volume, the most urgent tickets and top customers.

Tickets

The shared queue with filters, SLA-first sorting, saved views, bulk actions and Create Ticket.

Ticket

The thread, reply or internal note, properties, SLAs, customer card, linked tickets, activity log and the copilot.

Board

Every ticket as a card in a status column; drag to move.

AI Drafts

Replies the drafter prepared, with confidence and sources, waiting for a person to review.

Customers

Every customer and company, plans, targets, notes and ticket history.

Community

Customer questions from the Help Center: reply as staff, mark answers, moderate and handle reports.

Articles

Public, internal and private knowledge articles in nested collections.

Documents

PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files the AI reads and answers from.

Weekly Insights

The weekly digest: rising issues, friction and what to build next.

Reports

Volume, SLA attainment, reply and resolution time and CSAT, per agent too.

Assistant Analytics

Every Help Center assistant conversation, quality checked.

Leaderboard

Agents and groups ranked by satisfaction, then tickets resolved.

Reach out

Proactive outreach: one email and one ticket per customer.

Assignment Groups

Teams, leads, subcategories and auto-assignment.

Automations

Rules that run on create, update and SLA breach.

Ticket fields & SLAs

Statuses, priorities, categories, response targets, auto-close and reply templates.

Customer plans

Support tiers with faster targets, by email domain.

Email

Connect Gmail or Outlook, choose which mail, signature and a guided test.

Brand and Help Center

Name, logo, color, Help Center address and the assistant’s name, greeting and instructions.

Product tour · for your customers

Every page of the customer portal

Customers sign in with their email. They see your brand, your knowledge and only their own requests.

help.acme.exampleSample

How can we help?

Search articles and guides

Popular: billing address · add an admin · export

Getting started

Billing

Integrations

Ask the assistantSubmit a requestCommunity
Acme AssistantSample
You
How do I change our billing address?
Searching the Help Center · Reading a help article
Acme Assistant
Go to Billing, then Company details, and edit the address. New invoices use it right away. Want me to open a request to reissue an old invoice?
Open a request with this chat

Everything inside

Everything in Support Desk, by area

Every area has its own page, and every feature has a page of its own with steps, settings and FAQs.

Get started

Answering customers on day one

A guided setup turns on the background work (email to tickets, sending replies, checking response times, weekly insights) with a key that can only touch your support data, and creates a General Support group so every ticket has an owner.

Want to look around first? Install demo tickets, customers, articles, AI drafts, assistant conversations and a weekly digest, then remove them in one click. No emails are sent.

  1. 1Turn on automations
  2. 2Add your brand
  3. 3Connect your support email
  4. 4Open your Help Center
  5. 5Write your first article

Use cases

Who uses Autessa Support Desk?

Support leads

SLAs, plans, routing, reports and a weekly digest to share upward.

Support agents

One queue, cited AI drafts, templates and the copilot.

Product teams

Rising issues and friction from Weekly Insights.

Customer success

Proactive outreach and faster plans for key accounts.

Use cases by role and industry →
Integrations

Works with the inbox you already have

Gmail and Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com for email-to-ticket and threaded replies, plus Autessa agents, connectors, CRM and the rest of your Autessa account.

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Security

Customers see only what is theirs

Customers see only their own and shared requests; internal notes and internal articles never reach them; background work uses a key limited to support data; AI never sends on its own.

Security and permissions →

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Evaluating help desk software?

Fair, side-by-side looks at how Autessa Support Desk handles the jobs teams usually evaluate.

FAQ

Questions about Autessa Support Desk

Straight answers. If something is not covered here, book a demo and ask us directly.

Does Autessa have a help desk?

Yes. Autessa Support Desk is a full help desk for customer support: email-to-ticket, a shared ticket queue, AI triage and routing, SLAs, reply templates, AI-drafted replies, a knowledge base and reports. It comes with a branded customer portal (the Help Center) for your customers.

Does Autessa Support Desk include a customer portal?

Yes. Your customers get a branded Help Center where they sign in with their email, search articles and guides, ask an AI help assistant, submit requests with files, follow every reply, close or reopen requests, share them with colleagues and ask the community.

Can Autessa turn support emails into tickets?

Yes. Connect a Gmail, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com inbox and new emails become tickets, usually within five minutes. Replies go out from that inbox in the customer’s original thread, with your logo, color and each rep’s signature.

Does Autessa Support Desk have SLAs?

Yes. Each priority has a first-response SLA and a resolution goal. The resolution clock pauses while a ticket waits on the customer, and every ticket shows on track, at risk, breached or met. Customer plans and per-customer overrides can set faster targets. If a customer goes quiet on a pending ticket, you can ask an Autessa agent to call or email them.

Does the AI send replies to customers on its own?

No. The AI drafts a reply with a confidence score and the sources it used, and it waits in the AI Drafts queue or on the ticket. A person reviews it, edits it if needed, and presses Send.

How does Autessa Support Desk route tickets?

An AI triage agent reads each new ticket and picks the assignment group and subcategory, sets the priority and category, and suggests an owner. Groups can auto-assign, and automation rules can assign, retag or escalate on create, update or SLA breach.

Does Autessa Support Desk have a knowledge base?

Yes. Articles can be public (in your Help Center), internal (for your team and its AI tools) or private (only you). You can also upload PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files that the AI reads and answers from, and search everything by meaning.

Does it include a customer community forum?

Yes. Turn on the Community and signed-in customers can ask and answer each other in your Help Center by topic. Your team replies with a Staff badge, marks accepted answers, pins, closes or hides threads and handles reports from the support desk.

What reports does Autessa Support Desk include?

A dashboard and reports cover ticket volume, first-response SLA met, resolution goal met, average reply and resolution time, CSAT and assistant resolution, per agent too. A Weekly Insights digest adds rising issues, product friction and what to build next.

Does it work out of the box?

Yes. Connect your support inbox and turn on the Help Center, and your team is working tickets the same day with triage, SLAs, AI drafts and a knowledge base already in place. Then make it yours inside Autessa: your statuses, priorities and categories, assignment groups, customer plans, automation rules, reply templates, assistant instructions and your brand.

Is Autessa Support Desk a Zendesk or Freshdesk alternative?

It is a help desk that covers the same core jobs (ticketing, customer portal, knowledge base, SLAs, AI) and runs inside Autessa next to your CRM, phone receptionist and other apps. See the comparison pages for how each job is handled.

Can I try it with sample data?

Yes. A short guided setup gets you running, and you can install demo tickets, customers, articles, AI drafts, assistant conversations and a weekly digest to explore every page, then remove them in one click. No emails are sent.

Give your customers a better help desk, starting today

Use it out of the box: connect your support inbox, brand your Help Center and let AI draft the first reply. Then tailor fields, rules, groups and the assistant to your team in Autessa. Your team stays in charge of every answer.

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100% customizable, code and all

Make Autessa Support Desk fully your own.

Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.

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