What is Inkly?

Inkly is a product demo platform built for both people and AI agents. You use Inkly to capture, author, customize, publish, and maintain interactive demos. Humans can work in the no-code editor or Chrome extension. AI agents can work through the CLI and edit the same demo files directly. The core idea is Demo as Code. Your demos live in a repository. Inkly reads that repository, validates the files, hosts the demo hub, serves each demo, and updates the published experience when the source changes.

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Why Demo as Code

Most demo tools keep the source of a demo inside a closed visual editor. Inkly keeps the source in files. That makes demos easier to create and maintain:

• AI agents can read, understand, and edit the demo source directly.
• Demo creation becomes part of your daily workflow, not a separate production process.
• You can bring your own agents, such as Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor.
• You can keep live demos current as your product changes.
• You can reuse screenshots, videos, product copy, and marketing materials.
• You can preview changes before your audience sees them.
• You can keep ownership of the source in your own repository.

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The four parts of Inkly

Inkly has four main parts: your repository, the Inkly platform, the deployed demo experience, and authoring harnesses for humans and agents.

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Your repository

Your repository is the source of truth for your demos. It has two levels:

• A hub is the workspace for a collection of demos. It becomes a public demo hub you can use for sales, onboarding, customer support, product education, or feature showcases.
• A demo is one interactive walkthrough inside the hub. A demo can be captured, edited, customized, and maintained by a person or an AI agent.

A hub uses inkly.json for hub configuration and demos/<slug>/demo.config.json for each demo. Inkly can create and manage the repository for you, or you can connect your own GitHub repo so GitHub remains the system of record.

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The Inkly platform

The Inkly platform is where you manage the hosted experience. You can edit demos in a no-code editor, customize themes and settings, review analytics, manage embeds and API keys, and configure publishing. The platform writes changes back to the same file-backed model, so visual edits and agent edits do not create separate sources of truth.

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The deployed hub and demos

Inkly publishes the hub and demos from your repository. The deployed hub is a public page for your audience, and each demo is viewable as its own interactive experience. When you are ready, you can point a custom domain at your hub. You can also embed the hub or a demo in another site.

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Authoring harnesses

Inkly includes tools for both human and AI-backed authoring. The CLI helps agents capture and maintain demos. It can open Chrome, inspect the page, navigate by stable element references, capture screenshot/video or HTML steps, and write a demo folder. The Chrome extension helps humans record a demo by clicking through a product in their own browser. It uses the session you already have open, which is useful for logged-in product flows. The no-code editor lets you polish the demo without editing JSON. You can adjust copy, annotations, steps, branding, theme settings, voiceover, and assets from the web app.

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How the workflow fits together

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Where to go next