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Autessa Autodocs

Do it once.
Get the how-to and the robot.

Autessa Autodocs is a step-by-step guide generator and browser workflow recorder. Do a task once in a browser inside Autessa and you get a how-to guide with a highlighted screenshot for every step, plus a self-healing workflow that replays the task whenever you need it. Each replay refreshes the guide’s screenshots, so your process documentation stays current on its own. It is free with every Autessa account, for unlimited users; you pay only for AI tasks. It works out of the box, and you shape it to how your company works in Autessa.

  • Process documentation
  • SOPs with screenshots
  • Record and replay
  • Self-healing automation
  • Self-updating docs
  • No code
Autodocs · Record a workflowRECSAMPLE
←portal.example.com/orders/10482
PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

RECORDED STEPS

  1. 1.Open portal.example.com/orders
  2. 2.Type Search orders2.1s
  3. 3.Click Order #104821.4s
  4. 4.Click Refund3.2s
Refund a damaged orderFinishDiscard

↳ FOR PEOPLE · THE GUIDE

Refund a damaged orderDraftSAMPLE

Refund a damaged order

Use this when a customer reports a damaged item. It takes about a minute in the payments portal.

4. Click Refund.

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

↳ FOR THE BROWSER · THE WORKFLOW

Workflow · Refund a damaged order6 stepsSAMPLE

replays at the recorded pace · last run

  1. 1openportal.example.com/ordersPASSED
  2. 2typeSearch ordersPASSED
  3. 3clickOrder #10482PASSED
  4. 4clickRefundHEALED
  5. 5chooseReason → Damaged itemPASSED
  6. 6clickConfirm refundPASSED

FREE · UNLIMITED USERS

Free for your whole company

Everyone on your team can record guides and workflows, with no per-seat fees. Autodocs is free with every Autessa account. You pay only for AI tasks.

Unlimited users

Let the people who know each job record it. Nobody needs a license to write a guide.

Pay only for AI tasks

AI tasks, such as the AI writing your guide, are the only thing you pay for.

One recording, two outputs

Documentation tools write the guide. Automation tools write the script. Autodocs does both from one recording.

Screenshot-guide tools stop at the page people read. Record-and-replay tools give you code someone has to maintain. In Autodocs the guide and the workflow are the same recording, so they never drift apart.

FOR PEOPLE

A how-to guide

A title, an introduction and one instruction per step, buttons named in bold, with a screenshot that highlights exactly what to click. Edit it in Markdown, publish it to your knowledge base, and your chatbots answer from it.

FOR THE BROWSER

A replayable workflow

The same clicks, typing and choices, replayed by an Autobot on demand, on a schedule or from a trigger. If the page changed, the browser’s AI finds the element by meaning and the step reads as healed.

How it works

How do you turn a task into a step-by-step guide?

The guide takes as long as the task itself.

  1. 1

    Press record

    A real browser opens inside Autessa. No extension, no desktop app.

  2. 2

    Do the task once

    Click, type, scroll and choose like you always do. Each step appears as you go, in plain words.

  3. 3

    Name it and finish

    Autodocs saves the workflow and writes the guide, a highlighted screenshot for every step.

  4. 4

    Publish and replay

    Publish the guide to your knowledge base. Replay the workflow whenever the task comes around.

What makes it different

Guides that run, heal and keep their own screenshots fresh.

Everything a process documentation tool should do, plus the things that only happen when the guide and the automation are one.

Self-healing replay

Small page changes don’t break the run

Each step replays on the element it was recorded on. If a button was renamed or moved, the browser’s AI finds the same action by meaning, does it, and marks the step healed so you can check it.
  • Every step reported as passed, healed, failed or skipped
  • A warning when the AI did a step the page may not bear out
  • Stopping a run is never counted as a failure
How self-healing replay works →
Run · step 4 of 6HEALEDSAMPLE

WHEN RECORDED

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

TODAY · REDESIGNED

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾Issue refundConfirm refund
1. Recorded element Refund not found. 2. The browser’s AI looked for the same action by meaning and found Issue refund. 3. Step done; the run goes on.

Self-updating screenshots

Every run re-shoots the guide

When a workflow runs, Autodocs captures each step again and refreshes the pictures in every doc written from it, highlights redrawn. The doc then lists any step where the site changed.
  • “Pictures refreshed from the last run on …” on every doc
  • Healed, failed or not reached, per step
  • Old picture kept if a new one can’t be stored
How docs stay current →
Step 4 · last monthSAMPLE
PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund
Step 4 · after Tuesday’s runHEALEDSAMPLE
PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾Issue refundConfirm refund

Docs become automation

Turn a written SOP into a workflow

Create workflow reads a doc’s numbered steps, opens the first address it mentions, and has the browser’s AI carry out each instruction. Hand-written docs, edited docs and Autobot docs all work.
Turn a doc into a workflow →
Doc · How to refund (written by hand)SAMPLE

Steps

  1. Go to portal.example.com/orders.
  2. Search for the order number.
  3. Open the order.
  4. Click Refund.
  5. Choose Damaged item as the reason.
  6. Click Confirm refund.
Workflow · made from the docSAMPLE
  1. open portal.example.com/orders
  2. act“Search for the order number.”
  3. act“Open the order.”
  4. act“Click Refund.”
  5. act“Choose Damaged item as the reason.”
  6. act“Click Confirm refund.”

An agent for every doc

Give a guide its own Autobot

Create agent makes an Autessa Autobot whose one job is to run the guide’s recorded workflow in its own browser. Anyone who would have followed the guide can just ask.
Create an agent from a doc →
Autobot · Refund helpermade from a docSAMPLE
Refund order 10482, it arrived damaged.
Running Refund a damaged order in my browser.
Step 6 of 6 · Click Confirm refund

AI documents AI

See exactly how an Autobot did the work

When an Autobot works in its browser and writes a document, Autodocs adds it as a draft with “How it was done”: every step it took, with a highlighted screenshot of each, and a workflow to repeat it.
Docs from Autobot work →
Autobot · OpsSAMPLE
Export last week’s refunds from the portal and write up how you did it.
Done. I saved Weekly refunds export.md to Drive, with how I did it.
Weekly refunds exportDraftSAMPLE
Draft in Autodocs · “How it was done”, one screenshot per step

Weekly refunds export

Use this when a customer reports a damaged item. It takes about a minute in the payments portal.

2. In Search orders, type the order number.

PortalOrdersCustomers
10482
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

Passwords stay out

No secrets in the guide, ever

Typed secrets never appear in the steps people see, and the guide is written never to include one. A replay that reaches a password or one-time code asks you and types it straight into the field, never stored or logged.
How secrets are handled →
Run · Sign in to the portalWAITING FOR YOUSAMPLE
1Open portal.example.com/sign-inPASSED
2Type your email in EmailPASSED
3Type your password in PasswordSKIPPED

Type your password

••••••••••Send

Typed straight into the field. Never stored, never logged.

In the guide, step 3 reads: Type your password in Password. Nothing more.

Product tour

Every screen in Autodocs

Autodocs is small on purpose: a recorder, your docs, your workflows. Here is all of it.

SCREEN 01

The Autodocs home

Docs on the left, marked Draft or Published, and your recorded workflows below them with Write doc or Open doc beside each. The open doc has Edit, Create agent or Open agent, Create workflow, Publish and Delete, and a link to its folder in Drive.

Autessa · AutodocsSAMPLE
Refund a damaged orderEditOpen agentCreate workflowDelete

Published to Autodocs › Knowledge base in Drive. Drive search finds it, and so does any chatbot that uses the Autodocs Drive. Open in Drive

Pictures refreshed from the last run on Tue 9:00. Every step matched the site.

Refund a damaged order

4. Click Refund.

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

SCREEN 02

The recorder

A live browser with its own address bar on the left; every recorded step, with its pause, on the right. Name it, choose the replay pace, then Finish or Discard.

Autodocs · Record a workflowRECSAMPLE
←portal.example.com/orders/10482
PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Damaged item ▾RefundConfirm refund

RECORDED STEPS

  1. 1.Open portal.example.com/orders
  2. 2.Type Search orders2.1s
  3. 3.Click Order #104821.4s
  4. 4.Click Refund3.2s
  5. 5.Choose Reason → Damaged item1.8s
Refund a damaged orderFinishDiscard

SCREEN 03

A workflow

Its steps as recorded, how it replays, when it last ran and whether that run passed. Rename it, write its doc or delete it; deleting keeps the doc.

Autessa · AutodocsSAMPLE
Monthly invoice download WorkflowRenameWrite docDelete

5 steps · replays at the recorded pace · last run passed Mon 8:00 · Run it from an Autobot’s Workflows tab.

  1. 1.Open billing.example.com
  2. 2.Click Invoicesafter 2s
  3. 3.Choose Month → Octoberafter 1s
  4. 4.Click Download allafter 3s
  5. 5.Click Saveafter 2s

SCREEN 04

The editor

Markdown on one side, the finished guide on the other, screenshots included.

Refund a damaged order · EditingSaveSAMPLE
# Refund a damaged order

Use this when a customer reports
a damaged item.

### 4. Click **Refund**.
![Step 4](step-04.jpg)

### 5. Under **Reason**, choose
**Damaged item**.
![Step 5](step-05.jpg)

Refund a damaged order

Use this when a customer reports a damaged item.

4. Click Refund.

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

SCREEN 05

The knowledge base, in Drive

Drafts and Knowledge base folders in your company’s Autodocs Drive; each doc a folder of article, pictures and details.

Drive · AutodocsSAMPLE
Autodocs
Draftsnot yet published
Update a customer’s billing email
Knowledge basesearch + chatbots
Refund a damaged order
article.md
step-01.jpg … step-06.jpg
meta.json
Add a teammate to the portal

SCREEN 06

From the command line

Everything in Autodocs, and every workflow, from the Autessa CLI.

TerminalSAMPLE
$ autessa autodocs list  Refund a damaged order        published  6 steps  Update a customer’s billing   draft      4 steps$ autessa autodocs publish --folder "/Drafts/Update a customer’s billing"  published → /Knowledge base/Update a customer’s billing$ autessa browser-workflows run --name "Refund a damaged order"# 6 steps · 5 passed · 1 healed

AI how-to guide generator

SOPs and how-to guides, written for you

Autodocs includes an AI how-to guide generator. When you finish a recording, a model writes a title, a short introduction and one plain-language instruction per step, naming buttons and fields in bold as they appear. Every step gets a screenshot with the element highlighted. It opens as a draft; nothing is published until you publish it.
  • Step-by-step instructions with screenshots
  • Edit in Markdown with live preview
  • Drafts, then publish to the knowledge base
  • Write a doc from any saved workflow
See how guides are written →
Refund a damaged orderDraftSAMPLE

Refund a damaged order

Use this when a customer reports a damaged item. It takes about a minute in the payments portal.

1. Go to portal.example.com/orders.

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

2. In Search orders, type the order number.

PortalOrdersCustomers
10482
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

3. Click the order in the results.

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

Knowledge base

Published guides answer questions

Publishing moves a guide into the Knowledge base folder of your Autodocs Drive. Drive search finds it, and so does any company chatbot that uses the Autodocs Drive.
Publishing to the knowledge base →
Company chatbotSAMPLE
How do I refund an order that arrived damaged?
Open the order in the payments portal, click Refund, choose Damaged item as the reason, then Confirm refund. From the knowledge base: Refund a damaged order

Record and replay browser automation

The browser automation non-developers can own

Autodocs includes no-code browser automation: every recording is a workflow that an Autessa Autobot replays in its own browser, on demand, on a schedule or from a trigger. Runs report every step, so a workflow doubles as a website smoke test.
  • Replay at the recorded pace or as fast as the page allows
  • Watch the run live, take over or stop it
  • Run and follow runs from the CLI
Replayable browser workflows →
Run result · Refund a damaged orderTue 9:00SAMPLE
  1. 1Open portal.example.com/ordersPASSED
  2. 2Type Search ordersPASSED
  3. 3Click Order #10482PASSED
  4. 4Click RefundHEALED
  5. 5Choose Reason → Damaged itemFAILED
  6. 6Click Confirm refundSKIPPED

3 passed · 1 healed · stopped at step 5: the Reason list had no “Damaged item” option.

Everything in Autodocs

Every feature, chapter by chapter

Each chapter has its own page, and every feature has a page of its own with how it works, every option and who can do what.

CHAPTER 1

Recording →

Autodocs records a task while you do it once in a real browser inside Autessa, capturing every click, keystroke, choice and pause as a plain-language step.

CHAPTER 2

How-to guides →

Autodocs writes the how-to guide for you: a title, an introduction and one clear instruction per step, each with a screenshot that highlights what to click.

CHAPTER 3

Replay and automation →

Every Autodocs recording is also a self-healing browser workflow that an Autobot can replay whenever you ask, on a schedule or when something happens.

CHAPTER 4

Docs that stay current →

Autodocs keeps guides current by re-shooting their screenshots every time the workflow runs and flagging the steps where the site has changed.

CHAPTER 5

AI agents and developers →

In Autodocs a document and an automation are the same thing seen two ways: docs become workflows and agents, and the work Autobots do becomes docs.

Browse every feature →

Use cases

Who uses process documentation software like Autodocs?

Anyone who does a task in a web app that someone else will need to do, or that should simply happen on its own.

Operations

SOPs for every back-office task in a web app, kept current by the runs that do the task.

Customer support

Step-by-step answers for agents and customers, found by your support chatbot.

IT and admins

How-tos for account setup and admin consoles, with workflows that repeat the clicks.

Training and onboarding

New-hire guides recorded by the people who know the job, in minutes.

Product and QA

No-code checks that sign-in and checkout still work, with every step’s result.

Finance

Monthly downloads and portal chores documented once and replayed on a schedule.

Use cases by team and industry →

Works with

Built into Autessa, not bolted on

Docs live in Autessa Drive. Workflows run in Autessa Autobots. Chatbots read the knowledge base. And it all works from the Autessa CLI. Because Autodocs records in a real browser, it works with any website you can sign in to.

See how Autodocs connects →

Drive · AutodocsSAMPLE
Autodocs
Draftsnot yet published
Update a customer’s billing email
Knowledge basesearch + chatbots
Refund a damaged order
article.md
step-01.jpg … step-06.jpg
meta.json
Add a teammate to the portal

Security

Is it safe to record tasks with Autodocs?

Yes. Autodocs is designed so the people reading a guide never see a secret, and nothing leaves draft until a person publishes it.

Secrets stay out

Typed secrets never appear in visible steps or guides; runs ask for passwords and codes in the moment.

Encrypted workflows

Saved workflow steps are encrypted before they are stored.

Personal workflows

Workflows belong to the person who recorded them and run as that person.

Drafts first

Nothing is published until a person publishes it. Delete goes to the Drive trash.

Autodocs security →Autessa Trust Center ↗

Refund a damaged orderPublishedSAMPLE
Pictures refreshed from the last run on Tue 9:00. Changed on the site, worth a look: Step 4: healed.

Refund a damaged order

Use this when a customer reports a damaged item. It takes about a minute in the payments portal.

4. Click Refund.

PortalOrdersCustomers
Search orders
#10482Jordan Lee$84.00#10477Sam Rivera$19.50
Reason: Choose… ▾RefundConfirm refund

Self-updating documentation

Know which guides the website no longer matches.

After each run, a guide lists the steps where the site drifted from the recording: healed, failed or not reached. Every other step is confirmed as still matching. Your team reviews the few steps that changed, not every page.

Website change notes →

The essentials, done well

Everything you expect from a screenshot documentation tool

Compare

Evaluating Scribe, Tango, Guidde, Browserbase or Playwright?

Autodocs does what screenshot-guide tools and browser automation each do, from one recording. See how it stacks up.

FAQ

Questions people ask about Autodocs

What is Autessa Autodocs?

Autessa Autodocs is a process documentation tool and browser workflow recorder. You do a task once in a browser inside Autessa, and you get two things back: a step-by-step how-to guide with a highlighted screenshot for every step, and a browser workflow that replays the task whenever you need it.

Is Autessa Autodocs free?

Yes. Autessa Autodocs is free with every Autessa account, for unlimited users, with no per-seat fees. You pay only for AI tasks.

Does it work out of the box?

Yes. Press Record a workflow, do the task once and your first guide and workflow are ready. From there you shape Autodocs to how your company works in Autessa: edit the guides, publish them to your knowledge base, put workflows on a schedule, and give a doc its own agent.

How does Autodocs write a how-to guide?

It writes the guide from your recording. When you save, a model turns the recorded steps into a title, a short introduction and one plain-language instruction per step, naming buttons and fields in bold, and Autodocs draws a highlight around the element you used on each step’s screenshot. The guide is a draft you can edit before publishing.

Do I need to install a browser extension?

No. The recorder is a live browser that runs in the cloud and shows inside Autessa, with its own address bar. You click, type and scroll in it right in the page.

What happens to my docs when the website changes?

They update. Every time the workflow runs, Autodocs re-shoots each step and refreshes the screenshots in every doc written from it. The doc then lists any step where the site no longer matched the recording, marked healed, failed or not reached, so you know what to review. An Autessa agent can also email the guide’s owner the steps that need a look, when you ask it to.

What is self-healing replay?

Self-healing replay means a small page change does not break the run. Each step first uses the element it was recorded on; if that element is gone or moved, the browser’s AI finds it by what it means, such as the Save button, and the step is reported as healed.

Are passwords recorded in the guide?

No. The guide is written never to include a password, and typed secrets never appear in the steps people see. When a replay reaches a password or one-time code field, it can ask you for it and type it straight into the field without storing or logging it.

Can an AI agent follow an Autodocs guide?

Yes, in two ways. Create workflow turns a doc’s numbered steps into a browser workflow that the browser’s AI carries out one instruction at a time, and Create agent gives a doc its own Autobot that re-runs the recorded steps in its own browser.

Where are Autodocs guides stored?

In your company’s Autodocs Drive. Each guide is a folder holding the article, its step pictures and its details. Drafts sit in a Drafts folder; published guides move into the Knowledge base folder, where Drive search and chatbots that use the Autodocs Drive find them.

Can I run a workflow on a schedule?

Yes. Workflows run in an Autessa Autobot’s browser, so you can ask an Autobot to run one now, or give it a schedule or a trigger. Each scheduled run can get a fresh browser of its own, and replies can reach you by email or Slack.

Who can use Autodocs?

People whose role can use agents. Workflows belong to the person who recorded them; the docs live in the company’s Autodocs Drive, where Drive sharing decides who sees them.

Can I use Autodocs from the command line?

Yes. `autessa autodocs` lists, opens, generates, edits, publishes, converts and deletes docs, and `autessa browser-workflows` lists workflows, reads their steps, runs one in an Autobot’s browser and follows its progress.

Record your first workflow today.

Pick the task you explain most often and do it once. Autodocs works from the first recording; publish the guide, schedule the workflow and shape the rest to how your company works.

No extension to install · nothing is published until you publish it

100% customizable, code and all

Make Autessa Autodocs fully your own.

Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.

Start free and make it yours