Visual imitation learning: Guidde trains AI agents on human 'expert video' instead of documentation

For years, the "last mile" of digital transformation has been littered with forgotten PDFs and ignored training manuals. 

Organizations spend millions on sophisticated software like SAP or Salesforce, only for employees to struggle with basic navigation. Now, as the era of agentic AI arrives, companies face a double-edged sword: they must teach human employees to collaborate with AI, while simultaneously teaching AI agents to navigate the labyrinthine interfaces of the modern enterprise.

One idea that seems to be gaining momentum among AI-forward businesses: using screen recordings and tutorials/walkthroughs of someone performing an enterprise task — be it creating a new ticket or processing an invoice — and training AI to replicate the flow based on the screen capture. Just this week, a startup called Standard Intelligence went viral on X showing an early demo of open-ended version of this for the physical and digital world.

But the truth is, there are ...