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What are AI Product Demos? Plus Top AI Product Demo Tools & Assistants

Written by Melissa Megginson Axtell | Sep 23, 2025 9:07:26 AM

It’s official: B2B sellers have declared product demos to be the self-service tool most effective at closing deals. But without demo automation tools, creating product demos, let alone the personalized product demos that buyers want, would be challenging. 

Enter: AI product demo tools and assistants, here to make demo creation faster, better, and more scalable. With the right AI product demo support, sellers can build more effective product demos that accelerate deals and drive revenue.

 

What Are AI Product Demo Tools?

 

AI product demo tools are a type of demo automation software that uses artificial intelligence to help users create immersive, engaging demos with AI-powered assistance and features. These AI-enabled demo assistants streamline tedious, manual tasks and give sellers back their time through features like automated demo discovery, contextualized answer support, and demo improvement recommendations.

 

Benefits of AI-Powered Product Demo Assistants

 

AI for the assist! How do AI-powered product demo assistants make demo creation (and a whole lot more) a breeze? 

Task Automation  

Fun fact that’s not really a lot of fun: Your sellers are spending less than 30% of their time actually selling. What eats up their time the most? Non-selling tasks like manually entering customer information, manually searching through intent data, sorting through demo libraries and other sales collateral, and other administrative tasks. AI-powered product demo assistants significantly shorten the time it takes to do tasks like these. 

Today’s AI can process huge amounts of data, making billions or even trillions of calculations within just one second—which is just not something a seller would be able to do on their own. Consensus’ AI-powered demo assistant, Claraty, automatically finds the right demo for your buyers, saving sellers from having to dig through their content libraries in the hopes that they’ll eventually find the demo that’ll close the deal. Claraty understands your potential buyer and unpacks their data to find the perfect demo to move them down the funnel.

AI-Driven Assistance

We’re big believers that AI doesn’t replace sellers—it empowers them. And the real differentiator in today’s sales landscape isn’t just whether AI is used, but how well it’s leveraged. AI-powered demo automation offers a big sales enablement boost by providing immediate assistance when and where a seller needs it—helping them stay ahead instead of falling behind.

Claraty finds contextualized answers to important questions immediately, saving sellers from having to search for answers themselves. Which is a big deal, considering a report from IDC found that workers are spending a whopping 30% of their week searching for and trying to understand data they need.

Demo Optimization and Improvement

According to our 2025 Sales Engineering Compensation and Workload Report, most companies spend two hours or more on each demo—with some spending upwards of 12 hours on just one demo. Even two hours per demo would be a lot, considering that the same companies create at least between two and five demos per week. 

AI-powered product demo assistants can help streamline content creation, eliminating manual tasks and adding helpful features that simplify demo optimization. Claraty identifies gaps in demo content and offers actionable insights for improving your demos. It helps teams boost demo quality and save time while creating the best demo possible.

Expert Insights 

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an expert in your pocket at all times, available whenever you need their expertise? We can’t shrink sales geniuses down to pocket-size—but we can get that expert help in the form of an AI-powered product demo assistant. Because AI can unpack vast amounts of data, it can be trained on a variety of sources. It can guide demo creation and optimization with industry insights as well as insights from buyer data and company knowledge bases.

Built on years of expertise and best practices, Claraty offers users proven strategies to optimize demos, ensuring content resonates with today’s buyer preferences and helps shorten sales cycles.

 

Best AI Product Demo Tools & Assistants

 

Now that we’ve talked about why an AI product demo tool and assistant is helpful, let’s get into the best of the best. What are the top AI-powered product demo assistants and tools on the market?

1. Consensus

Consensus offers AI-powered product demo assistance and a whole lot more as a first-of-its-kind Product Experience Platform that helps users create unique, educational, inspiring, and truly engaging product experiences that optimize sales performance. 

Consensus’ AI, Claraty, streamlines the demo creation process to save your sales teams’ time while also building better product experiences that target your buyers’ needs. With Claraty, users can:

  • Optimize their demos: Claraty analyzes demo data and provides intelligent suggestions to identify which demos resonate with buyers, which areas need improvement, and how to align content with buyer priorities.
  • Use industry best practices: Claraty bridges knowledge gaps by analyzing data-backed best practices from real-world experiences and past customer usage. It then offers actionable recommendations to enhance demo effectiveness and maximize buyer engagement.
  • Navigate the platform: Claraty AI simplifies platform usage by tapping into the Consensus Knowledge Base and automated demo transcripts. Users can locate specific demos, find answers to their questions, and access demo creation support.

By helping your sales teams find the perfect demo for each and every buyer, Claraty ensures that all users can unlock the full power of demo automation. It’s no wonder Consensus users have seen their stakeholder discovery rate increase by more than 50%, added $30 million in revenue related to demo automation, and shortened their sales cycle by 60%.

Key Claraty and AI features include:

  • Instant Search: Find the exact demos you need in a matter of seconds with contextual research powered by AI.
  • Intelligent Recommendations: Make the perfect demos for each buyer using data-backed best practices.
  • Analytics: Gather insights from your buyers’ interactions with your demos combined with industry data to better inform future demos and product development choices.
  • AI Transcripts: Make it even easier for buyers to understand your products by adding automatic, accessible transcripts to every tour and demo.

 

Consensus’ other powerful features include:

  • Demo Creator: Create demos for every stage of your customer journey, designed for a personalized experience every time.
  • Product Tours: Show your buyers the features they want to see and tell a story through a unique multimedia tour.
  • Screen Recorder: Capture and edit video demos right through Consensus.
  • Chrome Extensions: Create video demos instantly with the help of Consensus’s Chrome Extensions, going beyond screenshots to build a more interactive experience.
  • Demo Player: Deliver interactive demos on any browser or device.
  • DemoBoards: Provide your buyers with a secure, branded, and customized landing page that shows off your product.
  • Playlists: Share multiple product experiences in one link, keep content relevant, and guide buyers throughout their journey.
  • BuyerBoard: Give your champions a place to show your product to key stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Content Downloads: Supplement your demos with additional content that can be easily downloaded by your buyers.
  • Public Links and Merge Links: Create custom links that can be shared via your social media, email campaigns, website, and more.
  • Demo Library: Build a centralized hub for your demos that’s accessible to your team and easily searchable.
  • Demolytics: Track how your buyers are engaging with your demos to receive intent data that helps you better qualify and interact with your leads.

 

Pros:

  • Immediate answers and demo discovery with the help of a powerful AI assistant
  • Engaging product experiences proven to close deals faster
  • Vital intent data that helps you better understand your prospect and what they need

 

Cons:

  • Consensus is designed for mid-market to enterprise companies, and smaller businesses may not be ready for its full suite of tools.

 

Pricing: Consensus builds custom plans based on licenses and use cases. Contact the Consensus team to create your custom pricing plan.