Case Study
Hookdesk
Rise By Digital designed and built Hookdesk, a shared customer support platform that brings every mailbox into one live queue, with SLA timers, AI-drafted replies and a branded portal customers can use themselves.
Client
Hookdesk
Industry
Customer Support Software (SaaS)
Services
The brief
About Hookdesk
Hookdesk is a shared support desk for teams that treat customer service as a product. It turns every customer email into a tracked ticket, routes it to the right person and keeps response times on track, with AI-drafted replies and a full audit trail on every conversation.
Rise By Digital has designed and built Hookdesk since September 2026, creating the support platform, the client portal and the hookdesk.ai website, and continues to develop and maintain it today.
The Challenge
Bring customer conversations from every mailbox and client into one shared, owned queue.
Make sure no customer email is ever lost in a personal inbox.
Help support teams reply within the response times agreed for each client tier.
Speed up replies while keeping them accurate and true to the team's own tone.
Give managers clear evidence of service levels, workload and customer satisfaction.
Let customers raise and follow their own requests without needing an agent.
Keep handovers, notes and decisions on the ticket rather than scattered across chat.
Explain the product clearly on a website that encourages demo bookings.
Our Solution
Designed and built a shared inbox with Open, Unassigned, Pending and All views, and a three-pane workbench for fast, keyboard-first triage.
Built mailbox sync so inbound email becomes a tracked ticket with the customer, client and history attached, with alerts if a connection stops syncing.
Created a no-code rules engine and an assignment engine that set priority, tags and owner, and share work fairly across available agents.
Added first-response and resolution SLA timers for each client tier, with at-risk highlighting and escalation before a breach.
Developed an AI Reply Assistant that drafts responses from internal docs and past resolutions for an agent to review, edit and send.
Built a branded client portal where customers raise tickets, follow progress and see their history.
Added internal notes, merge and split, role-based permissions, a full audit trail and reporting on response times, SLA attainment and satisfaction.
Designed and developed the hookdesk.ai website, with feature pages, pricing, a help centre, a changelog and a public roadmap.
Results & Impact
The results
A live support platform that gives every customer conversation a clear owner.
Every inbound email captured as a tracked ticket, with its full history in one place.
Response-time targets visible on every ticket, with early warning when one is at risk.
Consistent, well-informed replies drafted by AI and approved by an agent before sending.
Clear reporting on service levels, workload and satisfaction for support managers.
A branded self-service portal that lets customers follow their own requests.
A complete audit trail of every assignment, edit and reply, ready for review.
Ongoing development, with Rise By Digital continuing to release improvements and maintain Hookdesk.
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