What is a Content Experience Platform?
Learn what a Content Experience Platform (CXP) is, why it matters, and how it unifies capture, creation, publishing, and analytics into a single workflow.
The Problem with Fragmented Content Tools
Every growing team hits the same wall: you need documentation, training videos, product walkthroughs, help center articles, and onboarding content — but each one requires a different tool.
Your stack might look something like this:
- Scribe or Tango for capturing workflows
- Loom or OBS for recording screens
- CapCut or Premiere for editing videos
- Notion or Confluence for writing documentation
- YouTube for hosting videos
- WalkMe (at $43K+/year) for in-app guidance
That’s six tools, six subscriptions, six learning curves, and zero connection between them. Content created in one tool can’t be published through another. Updates require touching multiple systems.
There has to be a better way.
Introducing the Content Experience Platform
A Content Experience Platform (CXP) is a unified platform that covers the entire content lifecycle:
- Capture — Record any workflow with a browser extension or desktop app
- Create — Transform recordings into polished guides, professional videos, and interactive walkthroughs
- Publish — Distribute content to multiple platforms with one click
- Embed — Deliver interactive walkthroughs directly inside your product
- Analyze — Track engagement, completion rates, and content gaps
The key difference between a CXP and traditional tools is unification. Instead of moving content between disconnected tools, everything happens in one platform.
Why Does This Matter?
1. Dramatic Time Savings
Teams using a CXP report 90% less time spent on documentation. Instead of recreating the same knowledge in five different formats, you capture once and publish everywhere.
2. Consistent Quality
When all content comes from one platform with shared brand kits and templates, quality is consistent across every guide, video, and walkthrough your team produces.
3. Always Up-to-Date
When a process changes, you update it in one place. Every published version — across every channel — updates automatically. No more hunting through Google Docs, Notion pages, and video libraries.
4. Measurable Impact
Built-in analytics show exactly which content performs, where users drop off, and what topics need coverage. No more guessing whether documentation is actually helping.
Who Needs a Content Experience Platform?
- Customer Success teams reducing onboarding time and support tickets
- HR and Training teams scaling employee onboarding without live sessions
- Product teams driving feature adoption with in-app walkthroughs
- Support teams deflecting tickets with self-serve content
- Marketing teams creating product demos and tutorial content
- Operations teams standardizing SOPs across the organization
The Future of Knowledge Delivery
The fragmented approach to content creation isn’t just inefficient — it creates knowledge silos that grow worse over time. As organizations scale, the cost of maintaining disconnected tools compounds.
Content Experience Platforms represent the next evolution: one platform where knowledge flows effortlessly from capture to consumption, regardless of format or channel.
The question isn’t whether your team needs a CXP. It’s how much time and money you’re wasting without one.
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