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Company Brain for B2B product support
Short answer
An AI knowledge base in a B2B product help desk joins the product version and the customer's plan with the documentation before the agent replies, so the instructions concern features the customer really has. At Syntalith an AI app on company documents costs from €3,000 net. At 1,500 tickets a month with 6 minutes of searching each, it pays back in 0.7 months.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- net per application, fixed price before contract
- from €3,000
- from signing the contract to acceptance
- 4–10 weeks
- free prototype on your documents
- €0
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
AI knowledge bases: statistics 2026
0.7 mo.
payback of a €3,000 app at 1,500 tickets a month: €5,235 of searching today, €808 with the app. Scenario.
15%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), customer support agents working with AI resolved 15% more issues an hour on average, in a study of 5,172 people.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
30%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), less experienced support agents working with AI resolved 30% more issues an hour.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
47%
According to the European Commission (2026), customer service is the most common use of AI among EU SMEs and mid-caps that already use it: 47%.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
49%
According to Anthropic (2024), combining contextual embeddings with BM25 search cut failed retrievals by 49%, and by 67% with reranking.
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
Manual archiving when scheduling is unavailable
A customer uses version 3 on the basic plan and asks how to schedule bulk archiving. The version and the plan are confirmed in the ticket. The version 3 documentation describes manual archiving on the basic plan, and scheduling on the advanced plan. Without that link the customer gets instructions they cannot carry out, and the ticket comes back.
- 01Version and planThe agent sees them in the customer record or confirms them with the customer.
- 02DocumentationThe assistant picks the guide for this version.
- 03AvailabilityIt checks whether the feature is in the customer's plan.
- 04DraftA reply with links, which the agent reads before sending.
- 05ConflictThe customer record and the documentation disagree, so the question goes to the product team.
The history of a similar ticket is not enough to tell what the current customer uses. The product team maintains the description of features available by plan and corrects it when an agent reports a conflict.
What a help desk knowledge base costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 1,500 tickets × 6 min = 150 h (€5,235)
- With the system, a person checks the output in 15% of the time
- €785
- Model, 1 call per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- €23
- Cost of one case
- €3.49 today, €0.54 with the system
- Saving
- €4,427 a month
Payback of €3,000
0.7 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 6,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
The model is a small item here. The result depends on the time that searching and asking around take today, and on how much of it is left for checking the answer. According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), support agents working with AI resolved 15% more issues an hour on average.
Before we quote a build, we run a test on 20 to 100 questions the team has already asked: we compare the app's answer with what an employee found by hand and measure the time from the question to the source. The test takes 5 working days and costs €0.
Your platform may already narrow the search
If the help desk uses the platform's AI features, check which material goes into the answers. Zendesk describes search rules for knowledge sources for AI agents, which limit sources by titles, languages and labels. Narrowing the articles does not supply the version and plan of a specific customer, though.
Version, plan and instructions on one screen
better search in the ticket
no new app
Sources narrowed by rules in the platform
configure the platform's AI agent
vendor licence
Customer record in a separate system, several libraries
an AI app that joins the sources
from €3,000
Connect the reply with what the customer has
The first scope is a chosen group of questions about product features. The product team names the documentation and feature availability, the help desk brings example questions and knowledge of customer data, and agents judge whether the answers help without searching again. The wider ticket workflow is described on the AI in customer service page.
For the first call, one question that regularly comes back to colleagues and a note of where the team looks for the answer are enough. You do not need to send confidential documents, and you get a written plan within 2 working days.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: answers from company documents
We run the same count for your documents in the free analysis.
€3,723
a month for finding answers to 800 questions in documents
Payback: 1 mo.
Our assumptions are 8 minutes to find an answer in documents or ask a colleague, and checking in 15% of the old time. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 6,000 + 500 tokens per answer from documents, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
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