1 min lesson
The demo-back mirrors onboarding
Answer "What's the difference between a strong demo-back and a scripted tour and why does it matter at Cursor?" Use the clue you found.
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GTM hires at Cursor complete a course that has them build and ship a real product using Cursor. The demo-back is a preview of that bar. The panel isn't grading whether you memorized a tour; they're grading whether you genuinely live in the tool. Real fluency shows in the small things: how you handle context, how you recover when a model goes sideways, the vocabulary you use for the workflow.
Frame the whole demo as marketing to a developer, then say so. Open with “I'm going to pitch this the way I'd pitch it to a senior engineer who's already skeptical of AI tools” - then deliver exactly that. You're demonstrating the job (positioning for a technical ICP) while you demo the product. Two signals from one move.
Narrating every click - “now I open the command palette, now I type, now I press enter” - reads as a memorized script, not lived usage. Lead with the developer's job and the value of each moment. If you can't explain why a step matters to the user, cut it from the demo.