For Startups
A Real Help Center Before Your First Support Hire
Your company already lives in Notion: docs, wiki, everything. HelpKit publishes the customer-facing part as a professional help center on your domain, so support scales past founder-answers-everything without a hire.
The Best Companies Are Using HelpKit
Founders answering tickets at midnight
Early support lands on whoever built the product. Every documented answer is founder time bought back for building and selling.
Looking bigger than you are
A polished help center on your domain signals an established company. Customers and investors both read the surface; give them a good one.
The product changes weekly
Docs tools with deploy steps guarantee stale docs at startup speed. Docs in Notion move as fast as you ship.
What you get
Everything included, nothing to build
Live in 15 minutes, seriously
Your docs exist in Notion already. Connect the workspace, set branding and domain, done before standup ends.
AI answers from day one
Customers get instant plain-language answers from your docs, which is a support experience most seed-stage companies can't otherwise offer.
Insights that write your roadmap
Failed searches show exactly what confuses users, which feeds both your next article and your next product fix.
Grows with every stage
Ten articles now; categories, languages, widget, and protected internal docs when you need them. Never migrate.
Powered by HelpKit AI
Answers before anyone has to ask you
HelpKit AI is trained on your own content. Visitors ask questions in plain language and get an instant answer, with links back to the article it came from.
- ✓Trained automatically on every article you publish
- ✓Answers cite the source article, so nothing is invented
- ✓Works around the clock, in every timezone your users are in
Why your docs belong in Notion
The docs tool your team already knows how to use
Everyone can edit, today. Your team writes in Notion already, so there's no docs platform to learn, no markdown to teach, and no developer bottleneck between "we should update that article" and it being updated.
Docs stay current. Documentation goes stale when updating it is a chore. Editing a Notion page is not a chore, which is why Notion-based docs actually get maintained.
One source of truth. Your knowledge lives in one workspace instead of being copy-pasted into a separate docs system that drifts out of date the same week.
HelpKit adds the pro layer. Notion is the editor; HelpKit is the publishing engine: your domain, search, AI answers, analytics, and access control on top of the pages you already have.
How it works
Your help center, live in three steps
- 1
Point HelpKit at your Notion
The docs you have, published properly.
- 2
Connect your domain
help.yourstartup.com, branded, SSL included.
- 3
Get your evenings back
Customers self-serve; you write one article per new repeated question.
Startups from solo-founder to seed-stage run their help centers on HelpKit, usually launching the same afternoon they sign up.
Included on every plan
Everything a professional site needs
Fully branded
Your logo, colours and typography. No HelpKit badge on paid plans.
Your custom domain
Serve on help.yourdomain.com with SSL included, so SEO authority stays yours.
Multilingual
Run several languages from one workspace, without a duplicate system per market.
Instant search
Full-text search that returns answers as visitors type, across every article.
Insights that name gaps
See what people searched for and did not find, so you know which article to write next.
Protected access
Public, password, email allow-list or JWT via your own login. Set it per project.
Embeddable widget
Answers inside your product, without sending anyone out to a browser tab.
AI-readable by default
llms.txt and clean semantic markup, so assistants can quote your docs correctly.
Edits go live instantly
Publish from Notion. No rebuild, no release, no ticket to the web team.
With Helpkit we literally went from 0 to fully functional knowledge-base in 1 hour! The best thing about Helpkit is it allows my non-technical co-founder to do 95% of the work and manage our knowledge-base. We signed up because of how beautiful and well-designed the product is!
Testimonial from Dan Kelly
CEO at Adjust Square
Frequently asked questions
Is a help center premature before product-market fit? +
Ten articles covering your real questions is not premature, it's leverage: the same answer stops costing you time per customer. What is premature is heavy support tooling with seats and workflows; skip that until much later.
What does this cost compared to alternatives? +
Less than the founder hours it replaces in the first week. Compare it against Intercom-style suites and it's a fraction; compare it against building docs pages by hand and it wins on the search, AI, and analytics you'd never build. Pricing is on our pricing page.
We pivot a lot. What happens to the docs? +
They pivot with you: rewrite Notion pages, the site follows. Nothing about the help center resists change, which is the whole argument for it at your stage.
Can we also run our internal wiki through this? +
Yes. Add a protected project for the internal handbook (password, email list, or JWT) next to the public help center, both from the workspace you already keep.
Ready to turn your Notion pages into a
professional
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