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Customers expect answers without leaving their workflow. If your team runs Zendesk Guide, they still have to search, scan, and interpret articles while tickets pile up. The Brainfish + Zendesk integration brings AI customer service into your product by syncing Zendesk knowledge automatically, delivering instant answers through AI support agents for in-product help, and surfacing insights that close content gaps. Brainfish treats Zendesk as your source of truth and turns it into context-aware help that adapts over time. See how Zendesk Guide works in the Zendesk Guide documentation and how Brainfish extends it with analytics and automation.

Why should I connect Brainfish with Zendesk?

Connecting Brainfish with Zendesk lets you keep knowledge synced automatically and deliver AI-powered support inside your product.

Provide fast, conversational answers from Zendesk content via AI support agents for in-product help.
Keep every article current with auto-updating documentation that syncs changes on schedule.
Spot gaps and measure outcomes using customer analytics tied to real user questions.
Lower ticket volume so your Support and CX teams can focus on complex issues.
Offer effortless help for your users without context switching.

How does AI customer service work with Brainfish and Zendesk?

Brainfish ingests Zendesk Guide articles, keeps them fresh, and answers questions contextually in your UI. It then learns from outcomes and highlights what to fix using analytics.

Authenticate Zendesk: Enter your subdomain, admin email, and API token; see the Zendesk API documentation for token basics.
Map fields and locales: Choose brands, categories, sections, and locales to sync from Guide.
Choose sync cadence: Set automatic refresh via Content Sync integrations or trigger on demand.
Install the in-product agent: Drop the Brainfish snippet to enable contextual help where users work.
Monitor analytics and refine: Use analytics dashboards to improve answers and content.

What can I do with the Brainfish + Zendesk integration?

Deflect repetitive tickets by answering from your Zendesk Guide library in real time.
Serve help inside your product so customers do not have to open a help center tab.
Auto-sync multi-locale content from Guide and keep variants aligned.
Identify broken, outdated, or missing articles using outcome-based signals.
Give agents trusted snippets sourced from Zendesk when a conversation needs handoff.

What are the benefits for each team?

CX leaders: Make self-service the default while reducing customer effort.

Track containment and satisfaction with customer analytics.
Show quick wins that align with Why Brainfish.

Support teams: Clear queue noise and focus on high-value issues.

Handle FAQs with in-product agents.
Use curated snippets instead of searching long articles.

Product teams: Improve onboarding and reduce friction.

See where users get stuck with insights built for product teams.
Fix documentation gaps that block adoption.

Customer success: Spend less time on how-to.

Route routine questions to AI and reclaim time for outcomes.
Share links that stay fresh via auto-updating documentation.

How is this different from using Zendesk alone?

Limitations of Zendesk alone:

Customers must search and parse static articles.
Updates rely on manual work that can go stale.
Hard to connect articles to real resolution outcomes.

Advantages with Brainfish:

Answers appear in context through AI support agents.
Content stays current with auto-updating docs.
Analytics tie knowledge to outcomes, not pageviews, supporting our view on why most self-service fails.

When is the Brainfish + Zendesk setup most valuable?

High ticket volume from repeated how-to questions.
Fast-changing documentation across multiple locales.
Lean teams that need leverage, not headcount.
Complex SaaS where onboarding creates friction.

See the principles behind this approach in Why Brainfish.

How do I set up the Brainfish + Zendesk integration?

Authenticate Zendesk: In Brainfish, add your Zendesk subdomain, admin email, and API token to connect.
Map fields and locales: Pick brands, categories, sections, and locales from Zendesk Guide to include.
Choose sync cadence: Set an automatic schedule or run a manual sync using our Content Sync integrations.
Install the in-product agent: Add the Brainfish snippet to your app or site to enable contextual answers.
Monitor analytics and refine: Review analytics and update content where coverage is low.

Once saved, the first AI customer service sync starts automatically and keeps articles fresh thereafter. Explore more options on the Brainfish Integrations Hub.

What results should I expect?

Teams typically see faster answers, fewer repetitive tickets, and clearer insights once AI customer service is powered by Zendesk content.

Self-service rate: self-serve resolutions ÷ total inquiries. Example: Smokeball achieved a 92% rate in stories on our customer stories.
Ticket deflection: deflected tickets ÷ total tickets. See the Smokeball results in how Smokeball cut search-to-ticket by 74%.
Time to first answer: median AI response time in seconds inside your product.
Article freshness: articles updated in last 30 days ÷ total articles, driven by auto-updating docs.
Coverage of top queries: top 50 queries with accurate answers ÷ 50, highlighted in analytics.

Self-serve became the default and our team focused on high-value conversations.

FAQ

Does Brainfish replace Zendesk?
No. Zendesk remains your knowledge source. Brainfish activates it in-product with AI support agents and analytics.

How often does Brainfish sync with Zendesk?
You choose the cadence. Brainfish runs scheduled refreshes and supports manual syncs through auto-updating docs.

Is my API token secure?
Yes. Credentials are encrypted, access is least privilege, and you can rotate tokens at any time. We support scoped tokens and audit logging.

Does it work with multiple languages?
Yes. Select locales from Zendesk Guide and Brainfish serves the right variant automatically.

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