HelpScout versus melibo

Founded in 2011, Help Scout has been a promotor of fully remote companies long before it reached mainstream popularity in mid-2020. With over 12.000 customers, they are a prominent player in the support-desk space. Help Scout is also a certified B-Corp.

Help Scout is a communication platform that helps teams across an organization have better conversations with their customers. Quick to set up and easy to use, companies use Help Scout to create email inboxes like support@ and info@, put live chat on their websites, build help centers, and more. All of those customer interactions flow into a single view that looks just like an inbox but offers powerful collaboration and automation tools under the hood.

Help Scouts offers an extensive collection of free templates, guides, courses, and resources in the Support Toolkit on their website. They also have a range of open source tools and APIs created by the community in the Help Scout GitHub repository

The German chatbot company melibo combines live chat with AI Chatbots. The chatbot is there for your customers 24/7 and answers all those repetitive questions, while your agents can focus on more critical and complex inquiries.

melibo’s primary focus still seems to be on the German market but they are shifting to a more international approach with the addition of an English version of their website. The chatbot’s learning can be done in multiple languages through DeepL Translator. The chatbot on their website only speaks German, though. 750