Co-driver. Walkthroughs that ride along, for your own product.
In rally racing the co-driver reads the route notes and calls every turn before the driver hits it. Co-driver does that for your users: guided walkthroughs that point at real elements, explain them, and demo them. Drop one script tag on your product and the tour rides along.
What Co-driver does.
Anchored tooltips on real elements
Each step points at a real element on your page via a CSS selector, explains it, and can demo the action. Steps are dismissible and progress persists across page navigation, so a tour can span your whole product.
One script tag to embed
Drop a single ~5KB script tag on any page. Walkthroughs load async from a CORS-open endpoint, so there is no SDK to wire in and no measurable hit to your page load.
Author by hand or with Forge
Write steps yourself in a simple editor, or let Forge generate a walkthrough from a crawl of the target page. An anti-hallucination guardrail means the AI only uses selectors that actually exist on the page.
Completion analytics
See which walkthroughs run, which steps people finish, and where they drop. Every run posts back to your cockpit so onboarding stops being a black box.
When to use it.
- New users sign up and bounce before they reach the moment your product gets good
- You keep answering the same "how do I do X" questions in support
- You ship features faster than you can write docs, and want a guided tour without a rebuild
- You evaluated Appcues / Userpilot / Pendo and want the function run for you, not another tool subscription to operate — the tool is the cheapest part; Forge authors and ships the walkthroughs
Integrates with.
Pairs well with.
Questions.
How do I add a walkthrough to my product?
Drop a single script tag on your product page. Walkthroughs render as anchored tooltips that point at real elements on the page via CSS selectors. No SDK to wire in, no rebuild — the same way you would add an analytics snippet.
Can the AI write walkthroughs for me?
Yes, on the premium tier. Co-driver crawls the target page and generates steps using only selectors that actually exist on the page. An anti-hallucination guardrail means it never points at an element that is not there.
What does Co-driver cost?
Tier 2 at $49/mo: unlimited walkthroughs, embed on any number of pages, and built-in analytics. AI-generated walkthroughs are on a premium tier. Every Drive starts with a 7-day free trial and the cockpit itself is free.
Will Co-driver slow my site down?
The embed engine is about 5KB and loads asynchronously. Walkthrough definitions are fetched from a CORS-open endpoint and cached, so there is no measurable impact on your page load.
Does a visitor's progress persist across pages?
Yes. Steps are dismissible and progress persists across page navigation, so a single walkthrough can span multiple pages of your product without restarting.
Is this the same thing that onboards me inside Merkava?
Yes. Co-driver is the same ride-along onboarding engine that runs Merkava's own first key-turn, exposed as a Drive so you can run guided walkthroughs for your own customers.
Put a co-driver in your product.
Hire a department, not a tool. Co-driver comes included in the Marketing department ($249/mo), run by your CMO — or hire the Full C-Suite at $699/mo.