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Floe vs.
Storylane.
Storylane builds recorded, click-through product tours. Floe is an AI demo agent that runs a live, voice-led demo on your real product, answers questions in real time, and qualifies the account against your ICP. One is a video that auto-plays. The other is a sales engineer that scales.
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What Storylane Is
A quick definition.
Storylane is an interactive demo platform. It captures a product UI and lets a designer annotate a click-through tour that prospects can scrub on a landing page. Storylane tours are recorded and built once, then reused — the prospect drives the timeline but the tour itself does not adapt to what they ask.
The Difference
Side by side.
| Dimension | Storylane | Floe |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Recorded HTML capture with annotations | Live agent on your real product |
| Conversation | Annotations and optional chat widget | Voice-led, real-time Q&A |
| Discovery | URL params, branching tours | Live discovery on role, goal, problem |
| Personalization | Branching by segment | Built on the prospect's answers |
| Answers a live question | Cannot, in real time | Grounded in docs and product UI |
| Qualifies the account | Form fill after the tour | ICP scoring during the demo |
| Handoff to AE | Form submission | Structured brief, then calendar |
| Goes live in | Days of tour-building per flow | 24 hours, no engineering |
When to Use Each
When does Storylane
beat an AI demo agent?
Storylane wins when
- You need a recorded preview prospects can scrub on the page.
- Your top-of-funnel buyer wants a feature tour, not a conversation.
- You already have Storylane tours and want to keep them as previews.
Floe wins when
- Prospects have questions and a recording cannot answer them.
- You want every visitor qualified before the AE sees them.
- Your AE team is the bottleneck and you cannot hire faster.
- International or after-hours traffic stalls at scheduling.
FAQ
Questions.
Does Floe replace Storylane?+
It can. Most teams using Storylane for the demo gate replace the form with Floe and keep the Storylane tour as a top-of-page preview. The live demo handles the conversion; the tour handles the scan.
Can we keep using Storylane and add Floe?+
Yes. Use Storylane for self-serve previews on landing pages and use Floe as the live demo when a prospect clicks the call-to-action. The two are complements.
Storylane has branching. Why is Floe more personalized?+
Branching picks from a tree the demo designer built. Floe runs live discovery and adapts the walkthrough to whatever the prospect actually asks. There is no pre-built tree.
What about hallucination?+
Floe answers from your documentation and your live product UI, not from a guess. When it does not know, it says so and routes the question to a human with full context attached.
How fast can Floe go live?+
Under 24 hours. Floe reads your docs and explores your product on its own. No manual tour-building, no engineering project.
See what a live demo
does differently.
100 live demos for $649, live on your product in 24 hours.