the short version
on a video conversation with the ai co-host, you can now share your screen, and the co-host can see it.
press share your screen during the call and pick a window. it goes in the episode while you share it, with you in the corner, the way a walk-through looks. leave your co-host can see it ticked and the co-host gets a look at it too, so you can say what do you make of that error at the top, and it answers about the error that is actually there.
it is in the browser, on the web. the phone cannot share its screen.
why
until now the co-host could only hear you. you could walk it through a dashboard, a design or a failing build, and it would follow your words and nothing else. ask it what was on your screen and the honest answer was that it could not see.
a lot of building is on a screen. the bug, the figma file, the stripe dashboard on the day the first payment lands. talking about those things is better with someone who can look at them, because they ask about the thing in front of you rather than the thing you managed to describe.
and it makes a better episode. the viewer sees the screen, hears you explain it, and hears a second voice ask the question they would have asked.
how it works
- start a co-host conversation on video: setup screen, video, co-host, open the conversation.
- once it is live, press share your screen and pick the window or tab.
- your co-host can see it is ticked by default. the line under it says when the co-host has your screen.
- talk. ask about what is on screen, or walk it through something.
- stop sharing whenever you like, and share again. the episode cuts back to you between shares.
the co-host does not watch a video stream. every few seconds the page looks at your share, and only when the picture has changed does it send a still. the co-host keeps the latest still and nothing older, so it is always looking at what is on your screen now, and a long share costs no more than a short one.
when you stop sharing, the co-host is told it can no longer see your screen, so it will not describe something that is not there any more.
what it sees and what it does not
it sees the window you picked in the browser's own picker, and only while you are sharing it with the box ticked. it never sees your camera; it hears you, and that is all it gets of you.
untick your co-host can see it and the screen goes into the episode only. the co-host goes back to hearing you, and says it cannot see if you ask.
a browser cannot tell a password field from any other part of a window, so pick the window with that in mind. share the tab with the thing in it, not the whole screen with your inbox open beside it.
what it costs
nothing extra. the call comes out of your co-host minutes like any other, the same minutes as a podcast, thirty minutes a call at most. sharing does not use them faster.
what it will not do
it will not narrate your screen. it looks when you ask, or when what is on screen bears on what you are saying, and otherwise it follows you.
it will not reorder anything in the cut, and it will not add anything to the screen that was not on it. the episode is the call, in order, with your screen where you shared it.
can the ai co-host see my screen?
on a video conversation in the browser, yes, while you share it with your co-host can see it ticked. otherwise it only hears you.
does it see my camera?
no. your camera is recorded into the episode on your own machine; the co-host never receives it.
does sharing use more co-host minutes?
no. a minute of conversation is a minute, shared screen or not.
does it work on the phone?
not yet. phones do not let a web page share the screen. the co-host conversation itself works on the phone.
can i share the screen into the episode without the co-host seeing it?
yes. untick your co-host can see it before or during the share.