
Help Scout
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186 reviews

- Dagelijks 6-12 maanden lang gebruikt
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Keeps our customer support organized and on task
Beoordeeld op 11/6/2018
Pluspunten
A clean UI that has obviously been well thought through. They iterate and add features routinely and are very proactive in communicating with their customers. For example, I had discovered a bug, which they confirmed and rolled out a fix within 48 hours.
There are small reminders and tips presented within the context of the app, which are very helpful (eg. helping the user in distinguishing between an internal comment and a customer reply - this is very useful).
Overall, there is great value for the money, I would strongly recommend Help Scout as a help desk/customer facing communication tool.
Minpunten
IMAP integration for outgoing e-mail archiving would be highly valued. Only Gmail is supported at this time.

- Sector: Informatietechnologie en -diensten
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 51-200 werknemers
- Dagelijks 6-12 maanden lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 8.0 /10
The review
Beoordeeld op 22/8/2019
Really nice product for email support teams, but it doesn't do the work for others. I like the goal Help Scout has, but they need to fit to the market before they are dropping out.
Pluspunten
It's your best solution on the market if you are looking to interact with your customers only via email. Really easy to implement and the CS is really helpful too.
Minpunten
It's really difficult to spice things up for the customer. Limitations are set rather quickly when trying to customize Reports or being proactive with customers.
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Zendesk Suite- Sector: Hoger onderwijs
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 8.0 /10
Great for small teams!
Beoordeeld op 28/7/2020
When looking for customer service platforms, a lot of people will want it to feel human. Oddly, I love that it can be used to send confidential documents securely, and I don't have to interact. It's a great timesaver that way, especially when the people on the other end are using it for the same reason. Yes, you can add more personality and humanity, but in my case, I like being able to work uninterrupted, and no one ever has to say "have a nice day" because all we're doing is sending documents. If you're looking for something a little more personal -- it can absolutely be used that way. The notes and chat functions are helpful, and Help Scout is pretty adaptable to whatever your customer service philosophy entails.
Pluspunten
-Extremely easy to set up, add employees to, and use on a daily basis without hassle.
-Love the option to assign communications and update the status of them.
-Simple, straightforward design.
-Did I mention is was easy? Almost no training required.
Minpunten
-It would be nice to have more customization options. The simplicity is of appeal here, but the limitations are noticeable.

- Sector: Computersoftware
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 51-200 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Help Scout - The solution we were looking for!
Beoordeeld op 3/12/2018
Help Scout is easy to use, appealing, and very effective. There is always a feature to accommodate our needs.
Pluspunten
Help Scout is so user friendly! In the past, we tried several ticketing systems but they didn't seem to fit in with our flow and organization. We heard about Help Scout, tried it, and simply fell in love! Help Scout is so easy to use and work together as a team.
Minpunten
The one thing I would really like to see in Help Scout is a Round Robin auto-assignment feature. You can do quite a bit with workflows but I wish there was a simple way to Round Robin auto-assign our incoming tickets.
- Sector: Internet
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 2-10 werknemers
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
Makes life SO much easier
Beoordeeld op 7/9/2015
HelpScout has become an essential, can't-do-without part of my workday with how savvy and helpful it is in organizing contact with our customers and giving us a handy module for FAQs to boot.
Pluspunten
- Keeping un-answered emails bolded even after you've read it once,
- "Traffic Cop" for keeping egg off your face in case you send an email before reading a follow-up email from the customer
- Intuitive inbox and Doc-editing interfaces
- Ability to tag email addresses and assign conversations to a particular team member
- "Show original" option to see the email in its original formatting, in case HelpScout's interface isn't able to accommodate
- Quick customer service response times, to fix problems in a pinch
- about 20 other things :-)
Minpunten
Pretty minor, really:
- Sometimes the inbox counts don't always update automatically (between 30 seconds and a few mins, depending on the day)
- I honestly can't think of any others (seriously, it's that good)
- Sector: Mediaproductie
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 2-10 werknemers
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
Simple & cost effective for small team support
Beoordeeld op 31/8/2015
We were struggling to ensure all our customer support emails were replied to in a timely manner and often we were missing replies or getting confused when multiple employees needed to handle the support.
I tried a few different systems and they were either bolted on to Gmail, which got confusing or overly complicated for a small team. Finding Helpscout was a breath of fresh air. The web app was simple to setup and immediately it made sense with features that gave us the power to ensure we were giving our customers the best service possible.
Pluspunten
* Simple to use with powerful features available if you need them
* Great documentation so little or no training needed for new staff
* Customer service from helpscout is brilliant with quick and helpful responses
* Two favourite features - 1) the ease with which you can move assign conversations back and forward between staff members 2) Save replies - saves so much time!
Minpunten
* A mobile app or mobile optimised web app is really needed

- Dagelijks 2+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
It makes customer service that much easier
Beoordeeld op 1/8/2018
ease of use, improved customer support, great feedback from cusomters
Pluspunten
ease of use, works on mobile, customer support. Overall it helps me stay on top of all our customer requests.
Minpunten
None! There is not a lot to say here. My only gripe was before there was no mobile app but now there is and its brilliant

- Sector: Computersoftware
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 2-10 werknemers
- Dagelijks 2+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
IntegrationKings review of HelpScout
Beoordeeld op 3/4/2021
Pluspunten
We love that it brings all the communication into one central place to help answer clients back.
Minpunten
We do not like how forwarding of emails work and they always drop the attachments.

- Sector: Marketing en reclame
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 2-10 werknemers
- Wekelijks 1+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Excellent
Beoordeeld op 26/6/2022
Pluspunten
This is a very fast and efficient tool to use
Minpunten
Well I find that the mobile application is to review. But overall I find it very good.
- Sector: Computersoftware
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 51-200 werknemers
- Dagelijks 6-12 maanden lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 8.0 /10
Great tool for just emails!
Beoordeeld op 24/5/2022
Pluspunten
It's a great app for handling incoming emails - it gives you a lot of options on how to handle them, and it's easy to set up and to manage (even with a lot of mailboxes connected).
Minpunten
The chat is just not working that great, it was old-fashioned, hard to implement, and just overall not a great experience for both customer and the support agent. Also, the analytics UX/UI could be improved.
- Sector: Computersoftware
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
An excellent, lightweight, streamlined, modern helpdesk solution
Beoordeeld op 4/2/2015
Pluspunten
First, Help Scout gets major brownie points for "eating their own dog food" -- they are all about the Customer Experience, and they live up to this philosophy by delivering not only a very easy to use and modern product, but answering support inquiries right away (and thoroughly), and publishing an extremely helpful and insightful industry blog. So when you buy into Help Scout, you're not just getting a great software product, but also getting a great organization running behind it.
Aside from that I love how Help Scout does itself in fact deliver a great customer experience to our customers. It gets out of the way. Customers are not aware that we use it, in fact they believe they are emailing directly with me. Transactions are fast and lightweight, there are not many bells and whistles to complicate the process and slow down the support workflow. Help Scout made the hard decision to not allow custom fields on tickets, and while this at first seemed limiting, it has in fact allowed us to handle the ticket queue much more quickly, due to much lower overhead.
For delivering quick and helpful email support, I can't imagine a much better way to bullseye the task than using Help Scout. We've been very satisfied with it.
Minpunten
The Docs section of the product is a little bit underdeveloped, but adequate. It would be nice in that area to have more cohesion the way you'd typically find in a generic content management system (e.g. Wordpress). For instance, currently it isn't possible to move an article from one collection to another -- you have to copy its contents, re-build it on the other side, and delete the original.
That is my main complaint. In spite of that we have a full internal and external knowledge base hosted with the Docs feature, and it is adequate for our needs, if not exceptional.
- Sector: Computersoftware
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 8.0 /10
Organization and focus on delivering excellent customer service
Beoordeeld op 7/2/2016
Pluspunten
They are super responsive. They are pretty rad and transparent: if something goes wrong on their end they are not afraid of admitting fault. Which leads me to trusting them because I can believe them. I know that tells you very little of the product, but as leadership that's something that I really need. Other environments—blameshifting—I cannot stand and can't trust, believe, or hope that they'll hold true to their promise. We're leaving another vendor for that reason.
Their system is very responsive, quick, simple, and easy to learn. There aren't too many bells and whistles which simplifies my life when onboarding new teammates. Their docs are well written and engaging.
Minpunten
The vendor is great!
I'd say a better or more thorough live chat & phone integration would be great. We communicate with customers via email, phone, live chat, and Twitter. It's hard when all these are fairly decentralized. Help Scout *does* have a live chat integration (which we use) and we can forward VMs to Help Scout (which is great). But if you're looking for tracking call length, live chat length, or some of the other nifty metrics in one central place, you'll need to use Excel or a Google Sheet. Or use everyone's API to feed into your own system.

- Sector: Outsourcing/Offshoring
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 201-500 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1-5 maanden lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Dead Simple to use Help Desk
Beoordeeld op 11/1/2019
Our company uses HelpScout as its internal Help Desk for all of our associate's requests/needs such as equipment request, payroll inquiries, BYOD access, and so.
We found HelpScout incredibly useful; it has increased our response time and productivity, and we are starting to build our internal Knowledge Base. Moreover, most importantly, the price is affordable and goes along well our needs.
Pluspunten
Initial setup is straightforward. We currently only use the ticketing/email feature in HelpScout, so setup and email configuration were complete in less than 10 minutes.
The interface is clean, direct, and getting used to the layout is quick.
We have synced our main Mailbox queue to a private channel in Slack, so each time there's a new ticket is sent there, which is beneficial to keep track of incoming tickets.
Working with HelpScout is simple and straightforward. Currently, we only use the ticketing feature, and it's been a gratifying experience. All the essentials like adding internal notes, tags, tagging other agents, and replying to customers are there.
My favourite feature is the search function, which helps you find that four-week-old ticket you closed a while ago easily just by searching a few keywords that were included in it.
Minpunten
So far, the only complaint we had was the "next" feature, once you reply to a ticket, the next open ticket assigned to you would pop up immediately, and if you're not careful, you might respond the wrong thing to the customer!
- Sector: Computersoftware
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Help Scout - a help desk that doesn't suck
Beoordeeld op 17/2/2016
Pluspunten
First of all, Help Scout does exactly what it needs to (facilitate organized, efficient conversations between customers and support people) without getting in the way. The UI is great (especially since 2015) and the workflows are easy to learn and relatively powerful. Keyboard shortcuts are killer. But most of all, I love that Help Scout doesn't feel "heavy" or "dated". It feels modern, fast, and clean. And the support people are just plain awesome. Oh, and did I mention their blog posts?
Minpunten
Like many companies, they had to grow to keep up with their customer base - which is awesome! But some of their new hires weren't the greatest at support (ironic, eh?). Also, they've had a fair share of downtime recently, though they've been excellent at communicating and building confidence even through these rough times.
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
Like all the other Help Desks, but faster, more focused, and cleaner
Beoordeeld op 26/4/2018
Easy Help Desk software, fully functional with even more bells and whistles, amazing design, and affordable to boot!
Pluspunten
Having used Zendesk for years, I was looking for a alternative option without breaking the bank. Help Scout has all the features i needed for my team, and more.
Help Scout looks/feels great. Everything is right where it needs to be. I can quickly show a new employee how to use it in minutes. Zendesk looks like a dinosaur in comparison, and had to train them for a few days before my employees got comfortable.
Minpunten
Not much to dislike. They have a lot of integrations built right in, and zapier fills in the blanks. The only thing I wish I had was the custom fields, which is in the PLUS feature, and I'd have to pay a bit more money for it. But can't complain about that.
- Sector: Outsourcing/Offshoring
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 201-500 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Best ticketing tool out there!
Beoordeeld op 4/5/2018
Speedy communication with clients, great reports to categorize the requests that come in, very to near flawless functionality, and rarely an issue with Help Scout.
Pluspunten
Easy to manage accounts, great for keeping records of a clients request, real-time request, great reports, easy to use and adapt. Honestly, I would recommend Help Scout, is a great ticking tool that has helped me reach-out to clients and keep communication rolling with them efficiently.
Minpunten
I like the software when used on a computer, but the app for a mobile device does lack functionality. I would like to have the same options as I have on the computer. I don't want to be completely demanding so I won't request the high-end gadgets, but the option to see whos working on a ticket on the app will help a lot.
- Sector: Gezondheid, wellness en fitness
- Bedrijfsgrootte: Zelfstandig ondernemer
- Dagelijks 2+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
The best CRM I have ever seen
Beoordeeld op 27/7/2020
I've seen, used and implemented several CRM solutions in the past and helpscout just blew them all. I now use them with all my clients! Great security too and functional system. the BI features are well appreciated.
Pluspunten
In my 20 years I've never come across such an elegant solution as Help Scout. Everything works good, looks good. Nice integration with E-commerce platform Woocommerce.
Minpunten
The messaging feature is over-priced. $50/month just for showing pop-up messages in your widget is a but too much!
- Dagelijks 2+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
Love Help Scout
Beoordeeld op 13/1/2018
Pluspunten
I love all of the features that Help Scout offers. We're a growing CS department and it's scaled with us quite nicely. Our Developers are able to customize is for us and it's quite easy to use.
Minpunten
There are only a few things I don't like about HS. The main thing is that it would be nice to make article formatting easier to use with out HTML. And, it would awesome if they implemented a live chat feature, so we didn't have to use Intercom in addition to HS.
- Sector: Consumentendiensten
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 51-200 werknemers
- Dagelijks 2+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Help Scout is fantastic
Beoordeeld op 5/2/2017
Been using Help Scout for years. The main reason I went with them over others was the still small business feel you can give your customers even with dozens of employees being involved in customer interaction. The tickets are silent to the customer, unlike many other products which a customer is nothing more than a ticket.
Pluspunten
- Easy interface
- Lower learning curve
- Continually improving
- Good customer support
- All cloud based
Minpunten
- Per-user costs can add up
- Sector: Financiële dienstverlening
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
Help Scout is the best customer service management software out there.
Beoordeeld op 10/4/2018
Help Scout is the best way to manage client communications. It is efficient and intuitive, saving my team time and keep our communications organized.
Pluspunten
Help Scout allows my team to handle client requests collaboratively and efficiently. The UI makes it easy to view my pending cases, as well as my teammate's cases making it easy to take it over if someone is out of the office.
Minpunten
I have no cons for Help Scout. All the features and functionality was incredibly well thought out, and it is amazing how helpful it has been for my team.
- Sector: Consumentengoederen
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 6-12 maanden lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Gebruiksgemak
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
Great product
Beoordeeld op 23/10/2019
I’m so glad I started using helpscout, it’s easy to integrate with other apps we’re already using and our whole team loves it.
Pluspunten
I use helpscout as a simple task management platform for a small team. I know there are other task managers out there but helpscout is so easy to use and simple in tracking tickets, assigning and closing, it’s all I needed to stay organized with projects and small tasks for my team.
Minpunten
I wish I could get more details in the reporting. Maybe I have fully used it to the full potential but I would love to have full reports on each team member and how long each task took them, and be able to see this at a glance.
- Sector: Kleding en mode
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 2+ jaar lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
Great way to organize customer interactions
Beoordeeld op 11/6/2018
Pluspunten
This was the first customer service software we used as a team and it is really solid for being able to connect with customers through multiple points of contacts.
Minpunten
I really wish we could connect the entire customer journey within helpscout, it would allow our team to be more informed when dealing with customers.
- Sector: Vastgoed
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 1-5 maanden lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Just started using this product!
Beoordeeld op 15/2/2022
So far so good. Did the 14 day free trial in which reps of the company were very on top of things and often checked in to see how it was going. We even set up a 1x1 meeting before deciding to go all in and got our questions answered quickly. We wrote down our pros and cons and had more pros than cons as to what we needed it for and jumped all in!
Pluspunten
Very easy to use - was what we need in customer service inquiry software
Minpunten
Nothing yet but haven't used it for a long time
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 10.0 /10
Help Scout does one thing really really great
Beoordeeld op 3/10/2017
Ease.
Pluspunten
It was incredibly easy to set up. We migrated out of Zendesk to use Help Scout, and my team's eyes lit up from how intuitive it is to use. I even had non-coders building workflows to make email management easier.
The best is when I asked their support about integrations and other fancy- and they told me that it's not in their vision. They want to build the best email support desk, period. And it's really really good!
Minpunten
There's a lot of integrations that aren't built in. Which, it's not a game breaker. Do you REALLY need your toaster talking to Help Scout?
- Sector: E-learning
- Bedrijfsgrootte: 11-50 werknemers
- Dagelijks 6-12 maanden lang gebruikt
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Bron van de reviewer
Totaalscore
- Prijs-kwaliteitverhouding
- Gebruiksgemak
- Klantenondersteuning
- Waarschijnlijkheid van aanbeveling 9.0 /10
Everyday use for support of prospective users on an educational website.
Beoordeeld op 11/1/2018
An easy, quick way to provide support for all prospective students who come to us wanting information on our product.
Pluspunten
Its User Interface, it is extremely simple and friendly. It's also fun, the little messages whenever you have a clean folder is always a great pick me up throughout the day.
Minpunten
Its search engine, when trying to pinpoint specific tickets with certain filters, the filters sometimes do not work and fail to give a filtered search that's helpful towards finding context on a specific issue that's been handled before.