Close the gaps in your help center

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title: "Close the gaps in your help center"
description: "A four-step weekly routine to find the questions customers keep asking that your help center does not answer, draft articles for the biggest gaps and check whether the questions drop."
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# Close the gaps in your help center

A four-step weekly routine to find the questions customers keep asking that your help center does not answer, draft articles for the biggest gaps and check whether the questions drop.

For: Support leads and customer success managers whose agents answer the same questions by hand every week.

Help centers drift out of date quietly: the product changes, new questions appear and nobody has time to see which missing articles would save the most effort. The evidence is already in tickets, chats and failed searches. These four steps turn that evidence into a ranked list of gaps, draft articles from approved information and keep a support lead in charge of what is published.

## Step 1 — Gather the questions

**Goal:** See what customers are actually asking.

1. Export recent ticket topics, chat questions and help center searches with no good result.
2. Remove personal details before the questions are reviewed.
3. Agree the approved sources for product facts: release notes, product docs and policies.
4. Name a support lead who owns the help center.

**You finish with:** A cleaned list of recent questions and a set of approved sources.

## Step 2 — Group and rank the gaps

**Goal:** Find the missing articles that would save the most time.

1. Group questions that ask the same thing in different words.
2. Count how often each group comes up.
3. Check each group against existing articles: missing, outdated or hard to find.
4. Rank the gaps by volume and effort to answer.

**You finish with:** A ranked list of help center gaps.

## Step 3 — Draft from approved information

**Goal:** Get strong first drafts in front of the support lead.

1. Draft a new article or an update for the top few gaps.
2. Use only approved product information and link the sources.
3. Send policy, billing and legal wording to the right owner to check.
4. Have the support lead edit and approve before anything is published.

**You finish with:** Reviewed articles ready to publish.

## Step 4 — Publish and measure

**Goal:** Show that the questions drop.

1. Publish approved articles and link them from relevant support replies.
2. Track tickets on those topics before and after.
3. Track help center searches with no result each week.
4. Repeat the routine weekly and retire articles that no longer apply.

**You finish with:** Fewer repeat questions and a help center that stays current.

## Common pitfalls

- Publishing drafted articles without a support lead’s approval.
- Drafting from unapproved or outdated product information.
- Leaving personal details in the questions being reviewed.
- Writing articles nobody asked for instead of following the data.

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## Start with a workflow audit

We pick the workflow with you, set the baseline and write the bounded design.

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## See it as a workflow

- [Help center gap finder](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/help-center-gap-finder/): Customer support Find the questions customers keep asking that your help center does not answer well, and draft new or updated articles for the support team to review and publish.

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