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A company knowledge tool that stores short, verified answers and serves them inside Slack, Teams, and the browser.
A search tool that turns a company's verified facts, like locations and hours, into direct answers for site search, help centers, and store locators.
Yext Search is a search tool that answers customer questions directly from a company's verified business data rather than returning a list of links. It runs on Yext's Knowledge Graph, a central store of facts like locations, hours, staff, and products. Companies use it for three main experiences: a store or advisor locator, on-site search that returns direct answers, and help center search that aims to resolve support questions without a live agent. Because answers come from one verified source, the same facts stay consistent across a website, app, and connected directories. It is made by Yext, Inc., which maintains a Trust Center on its security practices, though this review could not confirm specific certifications from the public site.
This fits a company with many locations, providers, or products whose customers search for facts like hours, availability, or specifications, such as a multi-location retailer, healthcare network, or financial services firm with many advisors, or a support team trying to cut ticket volume with better help center search. A practical starting point is one use case, such as help center search connected to existing content, expanding to site search or locators later. Yext does not publish pricing, so request a quote scoped to your number of locations or content volume and treat online estimates as unverified. Its case-study numbers, like large jumps in deflected support calls, come from specific customers, so ask for reference customers close to your size and industry.
These estimates cover licensing, setup, integrations, staff time, security, administration, and support.
| Cost measure | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year total | $18.7K | $30.5K | $50.6K |
| Three-year total | $34.5K | $54.1K | $87.3K |
| First-year cost per unit | $935 | $1.5K | $2.5K |
| Average annual cost per unit (over three years) | $574 | $902 | $1.5K |
| Component | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing and usage | $975 | $1.3K | $1.8K |
| Implementation | $5.1K | $8.5K | $14.5K |
| Integration | $3.6K | $6.5K | $11.7K |
| Staff time and change management | $2.9K | $4.2K | $5.9K |
| Security | $2.5K | $3.5K | $5.3K |
| Administration | $1.9K | $2.5K | $3.4K |
| Support | $900 | $1.2K | $1.6K |
Estimate assumptions: Based on 20 enabled users. This is a planning allowance, not verified product pricing. Confirm the vendor’s billing unit and current price or quote before budgeting.
Benefits have not been estimated: The current research does not estimate potential savings, return on investment, or how long it would take to recover the cost. Earlier benefit estimates are excluded.
Confirm current product identity, commercial packaging, data processing terms, sign-in and access rules, retention, integrations, support model, implementation effort, and rollback conditions.
Verify identity, package, availability, ownership, pricing, and security evidence before approving a pilot
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
Define what success looks like for a test of Yext Search and assign someone to lead it.
Once the requirements above are met, compare a small trial with how your team works today.
Track adoption, output quality, business results, and actual costs against the estimate.
Use the results to decide whether to stop, adjust, or expand the pilot.
Confirm encryption, how the vendor uses your data, customer data separation, how long data stays and how to delete it, activity records, sign-in and user setup, where data is handled, other companies that process data, past incidents, and what your team must manage.
Review before rollout: confirm how to export your data, revoke access, and return to your existing workflow. Assign an owner and test the rollback plan before expanding use.
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
A company knowledge tool that stores short, verified answers and serves them inside Slack, Teams, and the browser.
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