For launches, release how-tos and enablement

Every release needs a walkthrough.
Click through it once.

The release is this week, and sales and CS both want “a walkthrough I can send.”

Customers will want one too. They should all match.

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Asterly is early. Public access is a waitlist.

From sales, launch week

“Can you send me a walkthrough of the new feature? I’ve got a demo Thursday.”

Same feature, different walkthroughs

Sales, support and customers each need the same feature explained, and each gets a different version.
The walkthrough is a slide deck nobody can find, with screenshots of last month’s UI.
The honest cost: You redo screenshots the night before launch, and then redo them for the next release.

What Asterly does about it

One walkthrough for everyone who asks.

Click through the new feature once in Chrome. AI drafts the guide with screenshots. Polish it and send one link to sales, CS and customers, then export Markdown or PDF for the enablement doc.

UI moved the night before? Edit the step that changed, or record the flow again.

From release to enablement

Click through the new feature once in Chrome
Polish the wording and highlight what’s new
Send one link to sales, CS and customers
Export Markdown or PDF for your enablement doc

The real app, with demo data

What goes out on release day.

Led by the card people see when you paste the link. Real Asterly screens; Fernwood Invoicing is made up for the demo.

Demo data
Link previews
Paste the link in a launch post or a sales channel. Where previews show up, it unfurls as a card with the title and a screenshot.
Demo data
Editor
Tighten the copy and point at what’s new with Soft glow, Outline, Spotlight or Filled tint.
Demo data
Recorder
Click through the new feature from the Chrome side panel. Stop and send when you reach the end.
Demo data
Help center
Publish release how-tos in a hosted help center with search, alongside your other guides.

What you’d record

A walkthrough for release day.

For a release, you’d click through something like this once and send the link around:

An example, written out. Not recorded, so no screenshots

“Try the new Reports page”

Open Reports
Choose a date range
Add a filter
Save the view

We haven’t recorded that one. Here’s a guide we did make with Asterly, for a pretend invoicing app: four steps, each with its screenshot and the click marked.

Fernwood Invoicing Help center