What is HaloDesk and how it works

HaloDesk is an AI-powered customer support platform that combines instant AI answers with automatic human support escalation.

It lets you place a smart chatbot on your website that is trained on your company’s knowledge, while still giving customers a seamless way to reach a real support agent when needed.


What HaloDesk does

HaloDesk has two core components working together:

1. AI chatbot trained on your knowledge

Your HaloDesk agent learns directly from:

  • Your website pages

  • Your help center or documentation

  • Uploaded PDFs

  • Custom text snippets

Once trained, the AI can answer customer questions in real time, using only the information you provide. This allows it to give accurate, on-brand responses instead of generic AI answers.


2. Automatic escalation to human support

When the AI cannot help or a customer explicitly asks for human support, HaloDesk automatically:

  • Escalates the conversation

  • Turns it into a support ticket

  • Sends it to your shared Inbox

From there, your team can reply by email or manage the conversation like a traditional helpdesk.

This means you don’t need separate tools for chatbots and support tickets. HaloDesk handles both in one place.


How HaloDesk works end to end

  1. You create an AI agent in HaloDesk

  2. You train it using your website, files, or text

  3. You install the chat widget on your website

  4. Visitors chat with the AI

  5. AI resolves common questions instantly

  6. Complex or unresolved questions are escalated to human support


When HaloDesk is the right solution

HaloDesk is ideal if you want to:

  • Reduce repetitive support questions

  • Offer 24/7 support without hiring more agents

  • Keep full control over when humans step in

  • Replace or complement tools like Intercom or Zendesk

  • Centralize AI and human support in one system


AI support without losing the human touch

HaloDesk is not designed to replace your support team.
It is designed to protect their time.

By letting AI handle the repetitive questions, your team can focus on conversations that actually need human judgment.


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