Self-learning in-app guidance

Ask "how do I…?"
on any website.

OpenWalk highlights the next step right on the page — walking you through hard-to-navigate apps, explaining the screen in front of you, helping with the forms. And it teaches itself: every walkthrough maps the site a little better, so the next answer comes faster and surer — for everyone.

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Chrome extension · bring your own AI key · MIT-licensed core

What it does

Three ways it helps, all on the page

Walks you through

Ask for a task and OpenWalk spotlights the one next element to click and says why. Every step is planned against the live page, and a self-learning map of each site's screens routes you to settings buried three levels deep.

Explains the screen

"What is this?", "which plan am I on?" — the current screen is read ephemerally and answered in plain language, with notes pinned to the exact fields and sections the answer talks about.

Helps with forms

Confusing form? Each field gets explained, with a proposed value you can insert with one click. Nothing is typed or submitted for you — you stay in charge of every keystroke that counts.

Two ways to use it

Your product, or everyone else's

For your users — embed it

Guidance inside your own product

Self-host the open-source server and add one script tag. Your users get walkthroughs and explanations inside your app; your data stays on your Postgres, requests run on your key, and you decide whether user browsing feeds the knowledge base or you seed it yourself.

<script src="https://openwalk.yourapp.com/widget.js" defer></script>

Self-hosting guide →

For you — install the extension

Guidance on every other site

The hosted service turns the same assistant outward: install the Chrome extension, connect in one click, add your Google AI (Gemini) key, and toggle OpenWalk on any site you struggle with. The knowledge is self-learning and shared — the more people use it on a site, the better it knows the way.

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Use cases

Where it earns its keep

Embedded in your product
  • Onboarding that answers back

    New users ask "where do I invite my team?" and get shown, in your real UI — not a tour they'll dismiss, not a docs tab they'll lose.

  • Fewer "where is…" support tickets

    The long tail of navigation questions gets answered on the page, before it reaches your inbox.

  • Settings nobody can find

    Every product has them. The self-learning map knows the way to the screen three menus deep, because someone has been there before.

  • Complex forms, completed

    Field-by-field explanations and proposed values turn abandonment into submissions — users insert each value with one click.

With the extension, anywhere
  • Government portals and tax season

    Find the right declaration screen in a portal redesigned by nobody since 2009 — and get each field explained before you fill it.

  • Cloud consoles

    That one IAM permission, that one DNS record — buried in consoles with a thousand screens. Ask, follow the highlight, done.

  • Apps you touch twice a year

    Airline check-ins, insurance claims, bank settings — never re-learn an interface you'll forget again by Tuesday.

  • Tech support for your family

    Instead of screen-sharing on a Sunday call, they ask OpenWalk and get walked through it — every click stays theirs.

Open source × hosted

Same code, honest split

The core is MIT

Server, widget, admin — all of it public, no feature gates. Self-host the embed product with everything it has, forever.

Hosted adds the shared part

openwalk.ai is that same code plus what only a shared service can offer: accounts, one-click extension setup, and the crowd-sourced knowledge of every site people use it on.

Your key, your spend

Requests run on your own Google AI (Gemini) key, encrypted at rest and metered to your account. No markup on tokens, no lock-in — take the code and leave any time.

Privacy

Structure, never content

The shared knowledge stores element labels and paths — never what anyone types, never page text. Explain answers read your screen ephemerally and store nothing. Contributing is a toggle you control in the extension, and everything still works with it off.

Getting started

Three steps

  1. Sign in with Google and add your Google AI (Gemini) API key — create one here, free tier included.
  2. Install the extension — it opens the connect page by itself; one click and it's yours.
  3. Toggle OpenWalk on a site with the toolbar icon and ask away.