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Most companies' help docs go stale within weeks of shipping a new feature, because writing them is nobody's favorite job and it always slips. Ferndesk tries to fix that by having an AI agent (nicknamed Fernand) watch what's actually changing — new code, closed pull requests, recurring support tickets — and draft documentation updates on its own, which a human then reviews and approves rather than writes from scratch. Ferndesk is an AI-native help center platform built around this self-updating loop. It monitors codebases, support tickets, and product releases to draft doc changes, generates and updates screenshots automatically, and keeps API documentation in sync with the underlying code. Beyond the knowledge base itself, it ships an embeddable self-service widget and an AI chatbot for front-line customer support, plus analytics on support trends. Plans scale by PR volume and AI answers per month, from a $49/month Startup tier (30 PRs, 250 AI answers) to a $399/month Enterprise tier with SSO/SCIM and white-glove support.