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Your team has answered this before. I’m building a tool that remembers.

I built a tool to help with community support. Then I kept building. I spend a good part of my day working with the community at CopilotKit, answering questions in Discord, GitHub, and Slack, helping people get unstuck, and pointing them to the right resources. I started building answerLoops to help me with that work. As it took shape, I added more integrations that fold in additional communities…

answerLoops is a tool designed to help with community support by consolidating questions from various channels like GitHub, Discord, and Slack into a dashboard. It then uses the team's knowledge base to generate helpful responses. This knowledge base can be populated in several ways: directly entering answers, importing documentation, uploading files, or syncing GitHub, Notion, and Markdown files.

Additionally, resolved tickets can be turned into knowledge-base articles with a Promote to KB action. The tool also identifies knowledge gaps in the support process and suggests popular questions that need answers.

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