# Building Tours with AI

## Meet Tori: Your AI-Powered Tour Builder

Tori isn’t just here to help you plan your product tours—she’s also your AI-powered assistant for building them. With the AI Tour Builder, Tori transforms approved tour plans into structured, story-driven microtour storyboards, complete with AI-recommended screens and interactive elements.

With Tori’s guidance, you can:\
✅ Turn tour plans into engaging Micro Tours with ease.\
✅ Ensure every tour tells a clear, compelling story that highlights value and differentiation.\
✅ Incorporate the right balance of interactivity—engaging visitors without overwhelming them.\
✅ Quickly swap AI-recommended screens with your own branded content, saving time.\
✅ Seamlessly prepare and publish tours for marketing campaigns, sales enablement, and beyond.

## Steps to Build Tours with AI

#### 1. Start with a Tour Plan

* Select from your pre-generated tour plans in Tourial.
* Click “Create Tour” to begin building.

#### 2. Get an AI-Generated Storyboard

* Tori pulls from your approved Tour Plan and auto-generates a storyboard with:
  * Placeholder images
  * AI-recommended screen replacements
  * Suggested interactivity and content

#### 3. Navigate the Storyboard with Tori’s Help

* A floating guide card lets you:
  * Toggle between screen replacement recommendations and a high-level overview of your tour’s objectives.
  * Click on any frame in the storyboard to see Tori’s specific recommendations for that screen.

#### 4. Replace & Customize Screens

Tori makes it easy to swap out AI-recommended screens with:\
\
📂 Uploaded media from your local hard drive.\
☁️ Tourial’smedia library for quick access to reusable content.\
🎨 Branded collateral, like PowerPoint or Google Slides, for explainer screens.\
🎥 MP4 videos, for dynamic, pre-recorded segments.\
🖥 Captured product screens, using high-resolution screenshots or screen recordings.

#### 5. Capture Product Moments & Workflows

* Use Tourial's Capture Extension to: 
  * Capture product screens and UI interactions.
  * Record workflow click sequences as short video clips.
* Add interactive tooltips, zoom effects, and dynamic interactions to simulate a live product experience.

#### 6. Enhance Engagement with Interactivity

* Bring product tours to life with:\
  ✅ Clickable Interactive Tooltips\
  ✅ Zoom and Spotlight effects\
  ✅ Smooth transitions that feel interactive and immersive

#### 7. Publish & Share

* Once your tour is finalized, publish it with a click.
* Instantly generate embed codes to share with your marketing team for:
  * Web pages
  * Marketing campaigns
  * Sales enablement
  * Demand generation efforts

## How Tori Makes Tour Building Effortless

🎨 Paint-by-Numbers Tour Creation

* Unlike traditional content platforms, Tori provides a structured, guided process—no more starting from scratch.

🎯 Strategic, Not Random

* Every tour aligns with an approved strategy, ensuring it serves marketing, sales, and GTM goals—no disconnected content.

⏳ Easier Updates, Less Effort

Need to refresh content? Clone tours, swap out only what’s outdated, and avoid costly rework—unlike editing lengthy explainer videos.