Comparison

Interactive demo tools replay a copy. Stea drives the real thing.

A tour is a recording of your product. It plays one path for everyone and cannot answer a question — which is why most people who ask to see your product still end up on a call. That is the difference, and it decides how many of them you can afford to show it to.

What an interactive demo tool does

It captures your product — screenshots, or a snapshot of the page — and replays that capture as a clickable walkthrough with tooltips. Nothing is installed in your product and no sandbox is needed, because the tour is not your product. It is a recording of it.

That is a real advantage. A tour goes up in an afternoon, loads instantly, and can sit on a pricing page forever. If you need a fixed happy path in front of a wide audience, it is the right tool and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.

Where a tour runs out

One path, whoever is watching

A tour is recorded once and played the same way for everyone. The CFO who cares about a multi-country close and the warehouse manager who cares about picking accuracy walk the same corridor, and one of them leaves.

It is a copy, so it drifts

The capture is a snapshot of your product on the day it was taken. Ship a redesign and the tour keeps showing the old screens until someone re-records it. Nobody notices the day it stops being true.

It cannot answer anything

A question off the path has nowhere to go. The visitor either books a call, which is the thing the tour was meant to avoid, or leaves with the question unanswered.

What comes back is click data

You learn which steps were reached and where people dropped. You do not learn what they asked, what they needed that you do not have, or whether they were worth a call.

What a live demo agent does instead

It asks four questions in conversation — what they sell, who signs off, what they run today — then opens the screens that answer them, in a cloud browser signed into a sandbox you control. It narrates as it clicks. The visitor can interrupt.

When a question falls outside the material you gave it, it says so, flags the question and tells the visitor someone will follow up. It does not guess at a price or a compliance answer. Every action it can take is written by hand for your product before it ships, so it navigates, filters and opens records but cannot submit, delete or change a setting — those were never built.

Side by side

Interactive demo tool Live demo agent
Fits the demo to who is watching One recorded path, for everyone Asks first, then shows what answers them
Answers a question off the path Nothing to answer with Answers it, or flags it and tells you
Stays true after you ship Re-record it The action stops and tells you
Runs in the visitor’s language One language per recording 60, same agent
Tells you who is worth a call Which steps they reached What they asked, what was shown, what it could not answer
Live in An afternoon — per path About a week — once
You pay A subscription, used or not Per demo that answered someone

Choose the agent if

  • More people ask to see it than your team has hours to show it.
  • The people asking are not alike: different roles, different countries, different questions.
  • You need to know what they asked, not only where they clicked.
  • You would rather pay for demos that worked than for seats that might.

All four are the same problem: a fitted demo costs a person an hour, so you ration it. A tour does not fix that, because the people you were rationing are exactly the ones a single recorded path does not fit.

And keep the tour if

  • Your product has one path worth showing and one audience worth showing it to.
  • You want a demo embedded on a pricing page that loads instantly and never needs a sandbox.
  • You cannot give anyone a login to a demo environment — a tour needs no access at all.

If one of those is true, a tour is doing its job. The two also sit together: a tour on the pricing page for people who want a look, an agent for the ones who want an answer.

What it costs to find out

There is no free trial, and the reason is worth saying plainly. Setting you up means one of us writing the actions your agent can take inside your product — about a week of work before you have anything to try. We charge a fixed fee for that build rather than pretending it is free, and it is why we will tell you within two days whether your product is demoable at all. After the build you pay per demo, and only for demos that answered someone.