Getting Started with Howdy AI for Interactive Demos

For an overview of how Howdy AI works, including how it understands your product and the accept/decline workflow, see the Howdy AI overview.

Opening Howdy AI

Click the stars icon in the editor header to open the Howdy AI sidebar on the right side of the screen. You can close and reopen it at any time without losing your conversation.

Quick-Start Prompts

When you open Howdy AI in the demo editor, you will see suggested prompts to get started:

• Create my demo - AI reviews your steps and writes content for the entire demo
• Translate - Translate your demo into another language
• Change tone - Adjust the writing style across your demo
• Personalize - Tailor content for a specific prospect or company
• Suggest steps - Get recommendations for steps to add
• Suggest chapters - Organize your demo into logical chapters
• Improve structure - Get feedback on pacing, flow, and organization

You can also type any message in your own words.

What Howdy AI Can Do for Interactive Demos

• Write and rewrite the text on any step in your demo
• Find and replace captured UI text across the demo
• Organize your demo into chapters
• Identify transitional steps and suggest auto-progress so viewers are not forced to click through unimportant actions
• Translate, change tone, or personalize content for specific prospects
• Find other demos and sandboxes in your library
• Duplicate the demo you are editing

Finding other demos

Ask Howdy AI to find demos by name, folder, or topic while you’re in the interactive demo editor. For example:

Do any of my other demos explain invoicing? Show me the matching steps.

Howdy AI searches the interactive demos and sandboxes you can access. It matches titles, folder names, and step text, including headings and overlay text. Results can include the matching step’s number and a text excerpt. Collections are not included in library search.

You can also search your library from an external assistant through the HowdyGo MCP server.

Duplicating your demo

Ask Howdy AI to make a copy before translating or personalizing a demo you want to keep:

Duplicate this demo so I can make a French version.

With Ask before editing selected, click Accept on the duplication suggestion. Auto-apply edits creates the copy as soon as Howdy AI suggests it.

Howdy AI replies with a link to the copy. Open that link before asking for changes to the new version. The copy’s title ends in “(Copy)”; you can rename it in the editor. See Duplicating a Demo for the library and MCP options.

Bulk-edit captured UI text

Paste a long list into the chat, or attach a .csv or .txt file, when you need to update many values in the captured interface. Use it to replace customer names, anonymize a dataset, or number a long list of records.

Tell Howdy AI how the supplied values should change. For example:

Replace each name in this file with Customer 1, Customer 2, and so on.

A file can contain one value per line or a two-column find-and-replace mapping. Howdy AI checks which source values appear in the demo before proposing edits, then lists any values it cannot find.

You can attach up to five .csv or .txt files in a conversation, with a maximum size of 512 KB each. A single edit batch can contain up to 100 replacements. For a longer list, Howdy AI prepares the first batch and tells you what remains so you can continue.

Howdy AI can edit step content and captured UI text. For reordering steps, adjusting positions, or replacing media, use the step editor and HTML editor directly.