Record it once. Stop repeating yourself.
Chairkick turns a screen recording into training material: you walk through the process talking, it generates the transcript, chapters, and summary — and the share link becomes the document your team actually watches.
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From "let me show you" to documented, in one take
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1.Do the process once, narrating
Record your screen and talk through the task exactly as you'd show a new hire at your desk. The explaining you were going to do anyway — that's the recording.
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2.Chairkick writes the steps
The transcript, chapter list, and AI summary generate automatically — a step outline searchable down to the sentence, without writing a word.
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3.Put one link where the team looks
Drop the share link in your wiki, handbook, or onboarding checklist. Anyone can watch — no accounts, no installs, no seats for viewers.
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4.Update by re-recording, not re-writing
Process changed? Record it again in five minutes. That's the difference between documentation that's alive and a wiki page nobody trusts.
An AI SOP maker that starts with a recording
Honest framing: if you want a click-by-click text document with automatic screenshots, tools like Scribe are built for exactly that. Chairkick makes the other kind of SOP — the one for processes that are better shown than written: anything involving judgment, timing, a UI in motion, or the "why" behind a step. You narrate once; the AI summary and chapters become the step list, and the video underneath it carries the nuance no screenshot sequence can.
Plenty of teams use both: text SOPs for form-filling, video SOPs for everything with a decision in it.
Priced for the team that watches.
Training content has one author and many viewers — so per-viewer pricing punishes exactly the tools that work. Chairkick charges per recorder: the person documenting pays ($15/month, or $9 billed yearly), and the forty people who watch the onboarding videos pay nothing, forever. New hire's first day is a link, not a license request.
Viewers always free.
Watching never costs a seat — the whole company can use one recorder's output.
See what's watched.
View counts show which training videos carry the load — and which onboarding step nobody finishes.
Questions with timestamps.
Comments attach to the exact moment, so "what did you mean here?" answers itself in context.
Ways to document a process.
| Capability | Chairkick (video SOP) | Loom | Scribe-class (text SOP) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Processes with judgment, timing, motion | Same — video messages | Click-by-click form workflows |
| Auto-generated steps | Transcript + chapters + AI summary | On paid AI tiers | Screenshot steps |
| Viewers | Always free, no accounts | Seat model can bill watchers | Free to read |
| Comparable paid plan | $15 / user / mo · $9 billed yearly | $18 / user / mo · $15 billed yearly | Varies; team plans per seat |
| Free plan | 1080p, 10-minute recordings, 30 videos | 5-minute recordings, 25 videos | Limited free tier |
Competitor details checked against Loom's and Scribe's public pricing pages on August 5, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How do I create an SOP from a video?
Record yourself doing the process while explaining it. Chairkick generates the transcript, chapters, and an AI summary automatically — that's your step outline, attached to the video that shows each step being done. Put the share link in your wiki and it's an SOP people can watch or search.
What should a training video include?
The task done once, honestly — including the small judgment calls an expert makes without noticing. Narrate the why, not just the what. Keep it under ten minutes per topic; chapters let viewers skip what they know.
Can new hires watch without an account?
Yes. Share links work for anyone — no sign-up, no install, no seat. Only people who record need a plan.
Video SOP or written SOP — which is better?
Both have a place. Text with screenshots (Scribe-style tools) wins for rigid click-sequences. Video wins wherever a step involves judgment, timing, or something moving on screen. Many teams keep text for forms and video for everything else.
How do I keep training videos up to date?
Re-record the changed process — five minutes — and update the link, or keep the link and replace the video behind it. View counts tell you which videos are actually load-bearing before you invest in re-recording.
Train forty people with one recording.
Record the process once, share the link everywhere, and let the AI write the steps. Free to start.