Built from six research sweeps: the top AI creators on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and LinkedIn over the last 90 days, what their best posts did, why it worked, and how they turn viewers into buyers. Plus audience psychology and what each platform's ranking system rewards.
October's top Instagram AI reels are AI-employee proof: 1.85M plays for an agent that caught 43 failed payments overnight; 528K from a 38K account saying “I'm the only human in my company”.
None of the top 30 AI YouTubers installs AI employees in real local businesses on camera. On LinkedIn, the “AI employee” story is being paid for by a product. Your unsponsored proof stands out.
The loudest complaint in 1,982 real comments is hype with no real costs. Receipts answer it, and owners with budgets sit on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Neither alone. Depth is the subject, reach is the packaging. Every post teaches one real, checkable thing, framed so a business owner gets it in three seconds. Views tell you which topics to make; owner DMs and booked calls tell you what to sell.
from Hormozi's six most-viewed videos last quarter (his own words, 25 Sep 2026). His best-selling videos had 100K to 270K views.
paid community members per 1,000 YouTube subscribers: Jack Roberts (287K subs) vs Nate Herk (1.09M). Specific beats big.
on a sponsored AI Short, vs 47K views and 2,479 comments on one specific keyword reel (aryan.mjn). Spectacle brings no buyers.
First 90 days (until about 5-10K followers)
After that (Jun Yuh's 3-1-2-1, adapted)
Reach = AI news and demos in business terms. Proof = real installs, costs, results. Human = your story. Convert = a free resource or a call.
The fleet that runs your company: names, jobs, what they did last night, what they cost.
Flagship: proof + reachFront desk, missed calls, lead follow-up, product photos. Rebuilds with a deadline. Cost per job.
Brings buyersWithin 48 hours of a launch: test it on a real job and say what it means for an owner.
ReachCosts, hours, what stuck, what got fixed, your real opinions.
TrustJob descriptions, the 4-question scope test, checklists, prompts, behind a comment keyword or a link.
ConvertCherry Shot before/afters and AI-made product ads.
Reach + productBuilding in Vancouver and India; true moments from client visits.
FollowsHinglish versions of pillars 2 and 5 as Trial Reels from week 4. One Hinglish AI reel got 474K plays and 17,155 comments.
TestInstagram brings reach, LinkedIn brings buyers, X brings credibility with builders, YouTube comes in phase 2, and TikTok gets free cross-posts.
Reach engine. 5 reels a week, every one cross-posted to TikTok.
Young owners, side-hustlers, students and job-seekers (India has the largest Instagram audience in the world). Mood: entertainment with a "teach me something quick" slice. 79% of US adults aged 18-29 use it (Pew 2026).
Shares to DMs per view, watch time, likes per view, originality (accounts that mostly repost stop being recommended), recency. Trial Reels test a topic on non-followers first.
"Comment KEYWORD and I'll DM it to you" at the end. Comment rate 1.03% with a keyword vs 0.09% without (3.8x inside the same account). It brings buyers, not reach: only 30% of the top 40 reels have one.
Gurleen's first posts here: Topics 1, 3, 7, 9, 37, 43 in the topic bank below.
| # | Creator | Followers | Median views | What they are the go-to for | How they make money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evolving AI @evolving.ai | 4.83M | 609K | AI news clips and AI-video virality | Newsletter 100K+ readers; sponsorships (inferred) |
| 2 | Varun Mayya @thevarunmayya | 1.2M | 403K | India's best-known AI/tech creator: daily AI-news reels | Aeos Group / Yaas Media agencies, video-editing school, game studio, YouTube 1.18M |
| 3 | Trakin AI (Arun Prabhudesai) @trakin.ai | 998K | 193K | Hinglish AI tool/prompt reels for India ('Fastest Growing AI Instagram Page') | prompts.trakin.ai prompt library; Trakin Tech brand |
| 4 | Ankita @creativewithankita100 | 41K | 169K | AI/Replit side-hustle tool reels, 15 seconds | unknown |
| 5 | iinsightri @iinsightri | 70K | 121K | AI realism / Higgsfield Genjutsu skits ('everything you scroll past might be AI') | Brand collabs (Higgsfield); free workflow doc as lead magnet |
| 6 | Nick Saraev @nick_saraev | 694K | 118K | Free Claude Code tools, MCPs and AI automation for beginners chasing a first AI client | Maker School on Skool $184/mo (self-reported '$160K/m across two agencies'); LeftClick AI agency |
| 7 | Chandler (Chanyoung Ryu) @chandlerintelligence | 95K | 106K | Claude and agent teams for creators ('team of friends' bots) | not found |
| 8 | TechPlus AI (Naman Deshmukh) @techplus.ai | 1.3M | 92K | Hinglish AI explainers under 60 seconds | YouTube, sponsor-run page (@socialsauce.in) |
| 9 | Riley Brown @realrileybrown | 332K | 57K | Agent-native / Claude Code and Codex demos (Vibecode) | Vibecode app; sponsors |
| 10 | Forgemind AI @forgemind_ai | 63K | 45K | AI agents/automation training (India), 'Official Meta Business Partner' | 10K+ students trained; Live Lab classes; Corporate training |
| 11 | Peter Griffin AI @petergriffin.ai | 164K | 37K | Claude skills/plugins lists voiced by Peter Griffin + Stewie | Collabs email; beacons.ai link; Telegram broadcast |
| 12 | Luke Cutting @lukebuildsai | 283K | 32K | 'My AI agents run my business while I sleep' (Jarvis, Azaris) | Azaris (AI agents product, launch.azaris.ai); free email course |
| Views | Creator | Opening line (verbatim) | x own median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.23M | @iinsightri | Everything you scroll past might be AI now - ads, UGC, creators, all of it. | 51.4x |
| 5.82M | @chandlerintelligence | Being a content creator can get lonely at times. That's why I created a team of friends to work with. | 54.9x |
| 4.87M | @evolving.ai | A Tesla Model S suffered a tire blowout at around 177 mph (285 kph) on Germany's Autobahn. | 8.0x |
| 3.47M | @kayvon.ai | dear bruce... | 254.8x |
| 2.16M | @opusjake | If Claude keeps giving you bad answers, you need to make 100 versions of Claude fight to the death. | 118.5x |
| 1.85M | @lukebuildsai | 43 payments failed overnight and I found out from Jarvis on my way to dinner with my girlfriend. | 53.7x |
| 1.8M | @sabrina_ramonov | 10 secret codes to learn anything. (on-screen: 'Secret Codes to Learn Anything') | 59.9x |
| 1.68M | @maujawaan.tech | keep your moments secure with this quick and easy check | 826.2x |
Full data: creators.csv · posts.csv
Buyer engine. 4 posts a week, written from real work, one image each.
Owners, executives and managers with budgets. 45% of US households earning $100K+ use it vs 18% under $30K (Pew 2026). Mood: career and status, "make me look smart at work".
Time spent reading, comments with substance, saves and shares, match with the reader's job. LinkedIn is killing engagement pods, comment automation and "comment YES" bait (Tim Jurka, 2026-03-12).
A repost ask lifts a post to 1.22x the creator's median. Put links in the first comment. Model to copy: Andreas Horn, who writes to executives and sells a $2,499 cohort plus a 38K-subscriber newsletter. Watch out: Viktor (an AI coworker product) is paying creators for #AIemployee posts, so unsponsored proof is the difference.
Gurleen's first posts here: Topics 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 36 in the topic bank below.
| # | Creator | Followers | Median engagement | What they are the go-to for | How they make money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pascal Bornet pascalbornet | 2M | 1.55K | AI + automation thought leadership; agentic AI for enterprises | Sponsored partner posts (#SalesforcePartner, #WorkdayPartner, #BCGPartner, #sponsored) are 7 of 20 posts and his sponsored median (1,916) beats the rest (1,107); keynotes; book IRREPLACEABLE; irreplaceable.ai |
| 2 | Charlie Hills charlie-hills | 200K | 926 | Practical AI for creators/marketers: Claude, infographics, motion; AI content systems | AI OS for LinkedIn: 6-week cohort, founding cohort $1,500, starts 2026-11-09 (charliehills.ai/aios); Substack newsletter; HubSpot collaboration |
| 3 | Ruben Hassid ruben-hassid | 831K | 909 | Claude/AI how-to for working professionals (How to AI) | How to AI Substack (free + $200/yr paid, "thousands of paid subscribers" per Substack; claims 397,034 weekly subscribers in a post URL), enterprise Claude consulting (self-described), EasyGen tool |
| 4 | Dharmesh Shah dharmesh | n/a | 813 | HubSpot founder: AI agents, startup product launches, dinners/community | HubSpot; YouSpot personal CRM (discounted $8/month link offered in his top post); LinkedIn newsletter |
| 5 | Ishan Sharma ishansharma7390 | 519K | 590 | India YouTuber (2M+): upskilling, business, AI; hackathons | Enterprise AI trainings, MarkitUp media, hackathons (MumbAI Hack Day), hiring posts |
| 6 | Mohini S. mohini-sss | n/a | 571 | India AI tools for marketers and corporate professionals | AI & marketing consultant ("DM for collaboration"); promotional posts with product links (Abacus.AI ChatLLM; sponsor or affiliate relationship unconfirmed) |
| 7 | Greg Coquillo greg-coquillo | n/a | 515 | AI infrastructure explainers from an AI platform product leader | Employer role (Azure AI infrastructure); paid partnership (Viktor, #AIemployee) |
| 8 | Ethan Mollick emollick | 439K | 490 | Research-backed AI at work and school (Wharton) | Books (Co-Intelligence NYT bestseller; Co-Existence released 2026-10-20), Wharton role, speaking |
| 9 | Allie K. Miller alliekmiller | 2M | 408 | AI for business leaders: enterprise adoption, agents, what to build first | AI-First Academy course (price not confirmed; she claims 400K+ students), free 5-day AI Fast Track email course, AI with Allie newsletter (claims 2M readers), Open Machine (advisory), keynotes |
| 10 | Vaibhav Sisinty vaibhavsisinty | 604K | 392 | India AI upskilling: GrowthSchool workshops | GrowthSchool: free 3-hour AI workshop upsells; entry workshops Rs 499-2,998 (third party); says $6M to $25M+ scale and 1M learners (self-reported), raised $5M |
| 11 | Anisha Jain theanishajain | 193K | 389 | How to (actually) use AI at work; LinkedIn growth with AI (How To AI, with Ruben Hassid) | Newsletter; paid partnership (Viktor, #AIemployee); comment-keyword lead magnets ("Comment GROWTH") |
| 12 | Alex Wang alexwang2911 | 1M | 326 | Learn AI Together: practical AI explainers, free AI community, newsletter | Sponsored posts: 13 of 20 posts carry promoted events/trials (DigitalOcean+NVIDIA Open Intelligence Summit, Oracle AI World, NVIDIA links, free-trial links); LinkedIn services page; newsletter |
| Engagement | Creator | Opening line (verbatim) | x own median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14K | ishansharma7390 | Had the most emotional day of my life. / Finally got this for my parents. | 23.1x |
| 6.79K | alexwang2911 | The fastest way to make an AI project expensive is to start by saying: / “Let’s build an agent.” | 20.8x |
| 5.23K | pascalbornet | 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻. / Somewhere, an engineer has spent three years refining gyroscopes, motion sensors, and stabilization algorit... | 3.4x |
| 3.59K | dharmesh | For the past 30+ years, I've been hosting informal, last-minute dinners in whatever city I'm traveling into. I've had the chance to make some great connections with so... | 4.4x |
| 3.21K | charlie-hills | Anthropic (finally) dropped Claude Motion. / I made 16 Apple-style animations. Here's how: | 3.5x |
| 3.17K | vaibhavsisinty | It was super cool to meet the AI boss 🚀 / I had a ton of questions lined up. Got a chance to ask a few of those. | 8.1x |
| 2.99K | ruben-hassid | Google your name. Now imagine your ex doing it. / Four prompts erase what they'd find (for $0): | 3.3x |
| 2.82K | andreashorn1 | The best thing you can do for your AI strategy in 2026 has nothing to do with AI. / It is fixing your data. | 8.7x |
Full data: creators.csv · posts.csv
Credibility with builders and founders. One Article plus 3-4 short posts a week.
18% of US adults, male-leaning, slightly higher income. Developers, founders, agencies, investors. Mood: insider news and status, "what is happening in AI right now".
X's open-source ranker (Aug 2026) adds up predicted replies, reposts, DM shares, reading time, profile clicks and follows, minus mutes, blocks and reports. Replies that the author answers weigh the most. Small accounts get a new-author boost.
Nobody sells on X itself: the link goes in the first self-reply (YouTube, newsletter, booking page). Answer replies in the first hour; Trejon drafts them into the same approval batch. Starting point: @gurleenAI has 5 followers and a best post of 1,111 views.
Gurleen's first posts here: Topics 2, 6, 8, 17, 28, 34 in the topic bank below.
| # | Creator | Followers | Median views | What they are the go-to for | How they make money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK | 383K | 296K | Gemini / Google AI Studio launches as they happen (employee voice, not a creator business) | None personal. Employer distribution for Gemini API / AI Studio [P: bio] |
| 2 | Pieter Levels @levelsio | 980K | 141K | Solo founder shipping AI products in public with live revenue in the bio | Bio lists live monthly revenue per product: Photo AI $86K/m, then $44K/m, $23K/m, $13K/m (next to "@X"), $7K/m, $5K/m [S: bio 2026-10-21]; his own post says business revenue stable at $200-250K/mo [S: x.com/levelsio/status/2102739359715774665]; MAKE book 32,168 copies / $955,903 [S: readmake.com via startupswiki] |
| 3 | Alex Finn @AlexFinn | 485K | 135K | Autonomous-agent / vibe-coding demos for non-engineers (Grok Bot, ChatGPT Voice, local models) | Vibe Coding Academy on Skool: 681 members at $99/month [P: skool.com/vibe-coding-academy/about 2026-10-21]; Creator Buddy "$300K ARR" [S: bio]; Henry Intelligent Machines |
| 4 | Greg Isenberg @gregisenberg | 748K | 121K | Startup ideas and AI-native business models; podcast host; Late Checkout CEO | Late Checkout (builds companies: Ideabrowser, others), Startup Ideas Podcast, sponsors [S: bio]; prices not captured |
| 5 | Marc Lou @marclou | 415K | 80K | Indie hacker: ships tiny startups fast, shows every revenue number | His own page: $94.2K/month across startups: TrustMRR $50.8K/mo, DataFast $31.5K/mo, CodeFast $5.7K/mo, ShipFast $1.1K/mo; newsletter 50K readers [S+P: marclou.com 2026-10-21]; ShipFast peaked $133K/mo Apr 2024 [S: newsletter 2026-09-08]; his own X post: "ShipFast in 2026: $2000/mo" |
| 6 | Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ | 398K | 59K | Early-access hands-on takes on new models; viral demo videos | Investor; "Something Big" newsletter sells ad spots (self-reply: "more ad spots to sell, sponsor@somethingbig.ai") [P: thread 2095596175705399482] |
| 7 | McKay Wrigley @mckaywrigley | 229K | 59K | Builds and teaches AI coding workflows | Not confirmed (site mckaywrigley.com not fetched) |
| 8 | Chubby @kimmonismus | 152K | 59K | Fast AI news analyst; model-release and benchmark coverage; Superintel editor | Editor-in-Chief of Superintel, "community of 300k+ in total" [S: bio] |
| 9 | Amjad Masad @amasad | 500K | 56K | Replit CEO: AI coding agents and software | None personal; Replit distribution [P: bio] |
| 10 | Ethan Mollick @emollick | 407K | 51K | Wharton professor: research and tests on AI at work | Book "Co-Existence", Substack [S: bio] |
| 11 | Min Choi @minchoi | 392K | 46K | What is wild and what is practical in AI: demos and workflow lists | No product link in bio; sponsorship not confirmed |
| 12 | Rowan Cheung @rowancheung | 601K | 44K | Daily AI news; founder of The Rundown AI newsletter | Newsletter is free and ad-funded; advertiser page claims 1.7M on the daily AI newsletter and 2.5M+ across three [T/S: builtbyfoundry.io 2026-10-06 citing advertiser page]; Rundown Pro $29/mo (was $84/mo on 2026-08-27), "70% expense it" [S] |
| Views | Creator | Opening line (verbatim) | x own median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18M | @VaibhavSisinty | Dyson trained an AI on 470,000 dental images and put it inside a toothbrush. With a camera. That flosses for you. In real time. | 1886.6x |
| 12M | @mattshumer_ | My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra: | 198.9x |
| 7.91M | @minchoi | This is literally my new workflow now: | 172.6x |
| 7.7M | @aaditsh | So let me get this straight… | 439.8x |
| 6.02M | @amasad | 18x improvement in intelligence per joule in 16 months. https://t.co/lP62kI5rpr | 107.5x |
| 5.49M | @AlexFinn | I don’t think you understand what ChatGPT Voice unlocks | 40.7x |
| 5.29M | @LinusEkenstam | A friend in Sweden just asked me what skiing gear to get for this season… | 481.5x |
| 5.17M | @deanwperkins | 16 minute tutorial on how to build $50,000 cinematic websites (step by step) with Claude Fable 5 | 279.0x |
Full data: creators.csv · posts.csv
Highest-intent buyers. Phase 2: one long video every two weeks, only if Gurleen records.
84% of US adults, 90% of $100K+ households. Mood: search and learn, willing to sit 20-60 minutes. The most trust per viewer of any platform.
Viewer satisfaction: does the video keep the title's promise. Then relative watch time, click-through on the thumbnail and title, and viewers coming back.
Description line 1: the offer or call. Line 2: the free resource. Mid-size channels convert best: Jack Roberts 11.7 paid members per 1,000 subscribers vs Nate Herk 3.2. Thumbnails: real face plus 1-4 big words plus a logo, or a proof object (a dashboard, a payment). Left out of the table: Shark Numbers (1.64M median), whose sponsor-funded reviews show an engagement pattern that looks paid.
Gurleen's first posts here: Topics 10, 11, 23, 29, 39 in the topic bank below.
| # | Creator | Followers | Median views | What they are the go-to for | How they make money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fireship @fireship | 4.31M | 1.62M | Dev/tech news in 5-7 minute dense, joke-heavy videos; about half the titles are AI | bytes.dev newsletter + fireship.dev (courses) in every description; sponsors (CodeRabbit, Railway, Blacksmith) |
| 2 | AI Search @theaisearch | 764K | 321K | Model-launch and research explainers, 25-33 minute analysis with curiosity titles ("GPT 6 Astra is a freak") | Substack newsletter (aisearch.substack.com), Ko-fi, hardware/sponsor links (Nvidia, Dell) in every description |
| 3 | AI Explained @aiexplained-official | 456K | 237K | Frontier-model news and analysis for people who follow the research | Patreon (linked in all 7 descriptions), newsletter (signaltonoise.beehiiv.com) and podcast; prices not checked |
| 4 | Tina Huang @tinahuang1 | 1.36M | 222K | AI + data for careers, "X in 24 minutes" explainers | Lonely Octopus (AI Agent Bootcamp cohorts, waitlist), free 28-Day AI Sprint Roadmap, sponsors (Crusoe, 365DataScience, StrataScratch) |
| 5 | Varun Mayya @varunmayya | 1.18M | 186K | India tech/business thinker, long interviews and masterclasses | Not visible in descriptions (only a Build What Moves India event page). Unconfirmed |
| 6 | Jeff Su @jeffsu | 1.93M | 179K | Productivity + AI workflows for office professionals | Free newsletter + templates, paid academy courses (academy.jeffsu.org, coworkacademy.ai), sponsors (HubSpot, Granola); prices not checked |
| 7 | Greg Isenberg @gregisenberg | 732K | 162K | Startup ideas + building with AI; interview format | Late Checkout agency, Idea Browser (paid idea-research product, pricing page not retrievable), Startup Ideas Podcast, thevibemarketer.com |
| 8 | Two Minute Papers @twominutepapers | 1.84M | 160K | Research-paper news in ~5 minute narrated videos | Sponsor (Lambda in 21 of 24 descriptions) |
| 9 | Vaibhav Sisinty @vaibhavsisinty | 873K | 141K | India AI news digests ("+21 AI updates") and AI-income ideas | Founder of GrowthSchool (per a third-party testimonial page, not confirmed on his channel); recurring links join.switchit.app (57/90 descriptions, not opened) and a StayingAhead newsletter short link |
| 10 | Matt Wolfe @mreflow | 1.02M | 135K | AI news and tool discovery (Matt Wolfe) | FutureTools.io directory/newsletter (linked in 48 of 65 descriptions), sponsors, podcast |
| 11 | Wes Roth @wesroth | 332K | 134K | AI news commentary, ALL-CAPS curiosity titles | Newsletter (natural20.beehiiv.com in 39 of 40 descriptions); no course/community found |
| 12 | Jay E | RoboNuggets @robonuggets | 203K | 122K | Claude/agent tool roundups and tutorials for builders | Skool paid community $97/mo (1,445 members) + free Skool network (98,306 members); affiliates (ElevenLabs, Apify, n8n, Make, Blotato) |
| Views | Creator | Opening line (verbatim) | x own median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.29M | @marktilbury | I Tried The LAZIEST Way to Make Money With AI || FIRST WORDS: "People are secretly making thousands of dollars using Claude to make AI influencers like this, this, and... | 3.9x |
| 6.46M | @fireship | Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not || FIRST WORDS: "Last week, a developer got so tired of Adobe's predatory business model that he de... | 4.0x |
| 2.44M | @futc.photography | Somebody Vibe Coded EVERY SINGLE ADOBE App | 20.6x |
| 2.24M | @sandeepswadia | 4 AI Agents To Automate 99% Of Your Life || FIRST WORDS: "four AI agents you can build today that will save you hours of work every week. You don't need any technical ... | 3.7x |
| 1.88M | @ayushmanpandita | Real vs AI Challenge (she almost won!) | 104.0x |
| 1.88M | @ivankv | I Stopped Testing Features and Gave Manus a Real Project – Manus AI Review || FIRST WORDS: "The app is done. I'll enter $50 as the hourly rate and click get started. >... | 1.1x |
| 1.82M | @siliconvalleygirl | Andrew Ng: The Biggest Opportunities in AI Aren't Where You Think | 18.2x |
| 1.73M | @meticsmedia | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Claude AI || FIRST WORDS: "Hey, I'm Matt and this is the ultimate beginner's guide to Claude AI. By the end, you'll have it fully mast... | 130.1x |
Full data: creators.csv · posts.csv
Free extra reach. Cross-post every Instagram reel; no separate production yet.
65% of US adults aged 18-29, lower-income skew. Mood: scroll and escape, but news-hungry (53% of users get news there, Pew 2026).
Watch time and completion, shares, comments, follows from the video. Slow openings die.
There is no comment-to-DM tool here, so swap the call to action to "link in bio" when cross-posting.
Gurleen's first posts here: Cross-post everything; test topic 50 as a native POV in the topic bank below.
| # | Creator | Followers | Median views | What they are the go-to for | How they make money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gazi Jarin @gazi.ai | 668K | 79K | Software-engineer lifestyle POVs, coding and apps (personality-led, not pure AI) | brand ads (#ad), beacons link |
| 2 | Kallaway @kanekallaway | 447K | 32K | Tech and AI news explainers for creators | Building sandcastles.ai; AI-company partnerships (#googlepartner, #ChatGPT_Partner) |
| 3 | Riley Brown @rileybrown.ai | 638K | 21K | Agent tools and Claude Code demos (vibe coding) | Vibecode app; sponsors |
| 4 | BioMakers AI @bio_makers1 | 6M | 14K | Humanoid robots and applied AI (Spanish) | BioMakers AI (linktr.ee) |
| 5 | Rowan Cheung @rowancheung | 80K | 11K | AI and robotics news (The Rundown AI) | The Rundown AI newsletter 2M+, Rundown University |
| 6 | Sabrina Ramonov 🍄 @sabrina_ramonov | 862K | 6.58K | ChatGPT/Claude commands and automations ('teach 10M people AI') | Blotato from $29/mo; free courses link in bio (Sabrina.dev) |
| 7 | Justin Fineberg @justinfineberg | 288K | 5.13K | AI agents that operate like your team (Cassidy.ai CEO) | Cassidy.ai |
| 8 | Fawzi @fawziammache | 134K | 4.89K | Explaining AI without the hype with hand-drawn visuals | free AI explainers library |
| 9 | Victor C @aisavvy | 134K | 4.78K | AI tools and tutorials (Claude + Blender + Seedance) | aisavvy.net, collabs |
| 10 | AI Century @aicenturyclips | 430K | 4.35K | AI clips and viral AI videos | bio link 'learn the secret to make viral clips' |
| 11 | Jo Mendes @nomadatoast | 339K | 4.29K | Creative tech tips and AI tools (Higgsfield API) | Higgsfield partner; liinks.co |
| 12 | Tommy Teja Adhiraja @tommythings | 1.3M | 4.08K | AI for entrepreneurs (Indonesia, English) | AICO Community, Zando Agency, Mechalens AI |
| Views | Creator | Opening line (verbatim) | x own median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4M | @gazi.ai | link dropping tomorrow 👧 #povreels #workmeetings #college #coding [caption; audio is music] | 17.7x |
| 369K | @aisavvy | One of the best ways to control character and camera movement in your AI videos is to create a scene in Blender first. | 77.2x |
| 354K | @rileybrown.ai | Opus 5.5 is so unbelievably good that people are starting to say that you can genuinely build most SaaS apps in a few hours. | 16.6x |
| 346K | @kanekallaway | Meta just had a crazy product launch #ai #tech #meta #muse [caption] | 10.8x |
| 114K | @taki.gpt | Claude, edit this video, add these effects, orbit, chat takeover, frame escape, snap zoom, checklist pop, headline storm, zoom portal, growth curve, studio reveal, b-r... | 38.3x |
| 62K | @nomadatoast | I'll show you why you need to be really careful with the eye right now. | 14.6x |
| 56K | @fawziammache | Anthropics IPO financials have been leaked and here are some of the most shocking numbers that you'll see. | 11.5x |
| 50K | @tony.aube | There’s a really cool consumer AI startup hiding behind this! [caption] |
Full data: creators.csv · posts.csv
Free, useful content the way Dhruv does it, with your face on an AI twin, in English, sounding technical. We took apart 73 face-on reels second by second (Dhruv's 15 plus the best and a typical reel from 18 face-on creators): every cut, caption, beat and opening line. The structure is copied exactly. The words are new, because Instagram stops recommending accounts that post copies, and copied scripts get called out.
@maujawaan.tech (end card: "Dhruv Mahajan | Tech & AI"). 15 reels, usual reel about 2K plays.
826x his median: a mass-audience safety fear, a dated third-party headline as the hook, a free public tool and a 3-step checklist. The same polished format on niche Apple trivia got ~1.5K (DetuCilTtKz, DepfkwKz9Nl).
Copied from: maujawaan.tech 1.68M
230x his median. Same product as his 7,480-play MOCK reel; the winner is 24 s not 57 s, opens on the calendar moment, uses proof (a friend's offer) instead of a coupon, and was posted on the day of the moment (2026-10-20, tagged #dussehra2026).
Copied from: maujawaan.tech 468K · maujawaan.tech 7.48K
opusjake's two winners (128x, 92x) and kayvon's ECC (124x) share it: one free named tool, a vivid or high-stakes first line, a 2-step install, keyword DM. opusjake's typical reel (0.98x) dropped the face and the spoken hook.
Copied from: opusjake 2.16M · opusjake 1.55M · kayvon.ai 1.6M
60x median. Visual output in every item (images, not text walls); a list keeps people watching to the next number; save-worthy. The identical repost got 154K, so even a repost of a proven list does 5x.
Copied from: sabrina_ramonov 1.8M · sabrina_ramonov 154K
319x and 488x median on a small account. The footage is his own working system, not a demo of someone else's tool. His typical reel had no pill, no captions and only 11 s of footage.
Copied from: jakedavidsai 528K · jakedavidsai 808K
liam 45x: one money outcome shown in frame 0 (rows counting), named open-source tool with stars, cost comparison. His typical reels were abstract ('9 techniques'). Jack 11x: free repo + star count vs his typical sponsored tool pitch.
Copied from: liamjohnston.ai 250K · jackroberts___ 95K
75x median: one promise that applies to every Claude user, proven with a real file path on screen. His typical reel was a 75 s listicle of niche design tricks.
Copied from: austin.marchese 146K · austin.marchese 26K
36x median; reverse engineering is the hottest topic in this sample (varun 947K, trakin 474K, angus 242K, nick 123K).
Copied from: angus.sewell 242K · angus.sewell 3.17K · trakin.ai 474K
2.35x on a 403K median: one clean news hook with numbers in 80 s vs his 136 s staged office skit (0.98x).
Copied from: thevarunmayya 947K · thevarunmayya 435K
7.7x: a live, novel demo with a time-boxed promise; his typical reel was a news recap.
Copied from: realrileybrown 442K
2x her median: the payoff graphic is visible in frame 0 and the format repeats; her typical reel was an 80 s case study.
Copied from: personalbrandlaunch 70K
13.6x: a profanity-level reaction + the source clip in frame 0. Her typical debunk (14.5K) had a calmer hook and an obscure subject.
Copied from: jiannacapri 170K
11 are free-value tips (Dhruv's lane), 4 are proof from your own AI employees. Anything in [brackets] is a real number you supply. Each lists what must be checked before it posts.
Template T01, copied bar for bar from maujawaan.tech, 1.68M plays. Caption: Comment CAMERA and I'll send you the skill 👇 Check the wifi before your family unpacks. #airbnb #privacy #claude #ai
Check before posting: privacy-scanner exists, is free, and works: run it on our own network with a known camera; the skill only does passive device discovery (no attacks on other devices); Airbnb's March 2024 indoor-camera ban: link the source on the card
Template T02, copied bar for bar from maujawaan.tech, 468K plays. Caption: Light up every call this season 🪔 Comment DIYA or DM me this reel. #diwali2026 #smallbusiness #ai
Check before posting: the call count is from the real log; the client agreed to be shown, even anonymised (bead trejon-pogp)
Template T03, copied bar for bar from opusjake, 2.16M plays. Caption: Comment ARENA and I'll send you the link 👇 A hundred Claudes, one task, only the best draft survives. #claude #claudecode #ai
Check before posting: the Arena skill exists, its link, and that it really runs ~100 sub-agents with critique rounds; run it once and note the real token cost
Template T03, copied bar for bar from nick_saraev, 467K plays. Caption: Comment CLAUDE and I'll send you the link 👇 Keep Claude Code going after your limit, on free models. #claudecode #ai #opensource
Check before posting: Free LLM API exists; its real model list and free-token figure; the handoff-note behaviour is real (test it)
Template T04, copied bar for bar from sabrina_ramonov, 1.8M plays. Caption: Comment CODES and I'll send you 50 more 👇 Save this for the next thing you need to learn. #chatgpt #claude #ai #learning
Check before posting: record each output for real in ChatGPT or Claude; pick prompts whose output is visual; the 50-code list exists before posting (it is the DM)
Template T05, copied bar for bar from jakedavidsai, 528K plays. Caption: My company runs on AI employees. Comment TEAM and I'll show you how to build your first one. #aiagents #ai #smallbusiness
Check before posting: dashboard labels match the real roster; every number is from a real log; which agents and clients may be shown (bead trejon-pogp); sage-1 is healthy before recording (overloaded on 2026-10-21, bead trejon-fbvgs)
Template T06, copied bar for bar from liamjohnston.ai, 250K plays. Caption: Comment LEADS and I'll send you the repo and my exact prompt 👇 Public data only. #claude #leadgeneration #smallbusiness
Check before posting: install and run ScrapeGraphAI once; record the real counter; star count; the paid-service price used in the comparison
Template T06, copied bar for bar from jackroberts___, 95K plays. Caption: Comment CROWD and I'll send you the link 👇 Test the launch before you pay for ads. #opensource #ai #startup
Check before posting: MiroFish exists, star count, and it does run multi-persona simulations (run it once on a real page)
Template T07, copied bar for bar from austin.marchese, 146K plays. Caption: Comment IMPROVE and I'll send you the prompt and the folder paths 👇 #claudecode #aiagents #ai
Check before posting: the session path on his Mac matches the card; the 04:30 job and its rollback/alert behaviour as described in AGENTS.md (memory-consolidate)
Template T08, copied bar for bar from angus.sewell, 242K plays. Caption: If you want the prompt, comment FUNNEL 👇 (keyword in line one: the same reel without it got 3K plays, with it 242K)
Check before posting: run it on a real public funnel and keep the outputs; no personal data of testimonial clients shown; blur names and faces
Template T09, copied bar for bar from thevarunmayya, 947K plays. Caption: REA is free and it's trending. Which app would you take apart first? #opensource #claudecode #ai
Check before posting: REA repo, name, star count, and that it is still trending on the post date; the Reddit thread and the Steam/Unity post exist (link them); Ghidra NSA release (2019) is correct
Template T10, copied bar for bar from realrileybrown, 442K plays. Caption: Comment PHONE and I'll send you the FAQ template and hand-off rules 👇 #aireceptionist #smallbusiness #ai
Check before posting: record a real call; claim only what the recording shows; name the real stack
Template T11, copied bar for bar from personalbrandlaunch, 70K plays. Caption: Bad, good and great AI employees. Which column is yours? #aiagents #smallbusiness #ai
Check before posting:
Template T12, copied bar for bar from jiannacapri, 170K plays. Caption: Comment FLAGS and I'll send you my checklist for judging any AI claim 👇 #ai #aiagents #scam
Check before posting: do not name or show any private individual; blur every handle
Template T03, copied bar for bar from kayvon.ai, 1.6M plays. Caption: Comment ECC and I'll send you the link and my install notes 👇 #claudecode #opensource #ai
Check before posting: repo name, agent/skill counts, star count and build time; the two install commands work as written; the 80% coverage behaviour is real
The structure comes from a post that already won (linked). The substance is your own work. Anything in [brackets] is a real number or name you supply or approve; nothing is invented.
Download: topic-bank.csv
The kit: job descriptions for 5 common AI employees, the 4-question scope test, a cost sheet. Market range for an install (our research, not a price list): $750 to $3,500 setup plus $300 to $1,200 a month.
No community at launch. Under 10K followers with a real skill, the evidence points to a high-value service, not a $49 community (Jun Yuh, Dan Koe). A community needs daily presence: Justin Welsh shut a $15K-a-month one because he “had to be on Slack 24/7”.
Your one-time items. Trejon points the content engine at your brand, builds the phone approval page, sets up scheduling, writes the Starter Kit and the gurleenkhurana.com page with a booking link, and makes reel templates that need no filming.
“My company runs on AI employees” everywhere: X Article (idea 2), proof reel (idea 1), LinkedIn post (idea 4), TikTok cross-post. Plus 2 reels on this week's AI news in business terms.
Installs pillar, the first free-resource keyword reel (idea 37), one honest-numbers post.
Remake whatever broke out, in other formats. First YouTube video if you record the 30-minute tour (idea 10). Day-30 review: which pillars to weight up on each platform.
| When | Target | Depends on |
|---|---|---|
| Day 30 | One post per platform at 5x your median; 10+ owner DMs or keyword requests; first audit call | The standing go, so posts actually go out |
| Day 90 | Instagram 2-10K followers; LinkedIn +1-3K; X 300-1,500; 5-15 audit calls; 1-2 SAGE installs | 5 reels + 4 LinkedIn posts + 1 Article every week, and at least two reels passing 100K. Estimates. |
| Today | X @gurleenAI: 5 followers, best post 1,111 views | Starting point |
Costs: Everything except the AI twin runs on tools we already have. Instagram AI twin on Higgsfield: about $3.30 per reel as a draft and $7.70 as a final (5 reels a week is roughly $165 a month). Later, each with your go: comment-to-DM automation, about $15 a month; X Premium if Articles need it, about $8 a month (not yet verified).
| Name | Where | What to take |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Saraev | @nick_saraev (IG), YouTube 566K | Free tools reels with a comment keyword; Maker School $184/mo |
| Nate Herk | YouTube 1.09M, free Skool 474K | YouTube-led; paid community $129/mo, 3.4K members; no reels in window |
| Liam Ottley | YouTube 862K, IG @liamottley 44K | Business-rebuild videos; agency and accelerator |
| Brendan Jowett ("Brandon Chowett") | YouTube @brendanautomation 63K | One 824K launch-week video; paid community has 115 members |
| Rowan Cheung | X 601K, IG 502K | AI news; Rundown newsletter 2M+, ad-funded |
| Marc Lou | X @marclou 415K | Builds in public; products $94K/mo self-reported |
| levelsio | X 980K | Ships products, posts revenue; Photo AI $86K/mo self-reported |
| Varun Mayya | IG @thevarunmayya 1.2M, YouTube 1.18M | India's top AI news explainer; agencies and edit school |
| Jun Yuh | IG @jun_yuh 5.3M | Personal-brand teacher; the 3-1-2-1 weekly mix |
| aryan.mjn | IG Aryan Mahajan 36K | 5.23% comment rate on a keyword reel |
| Alex Hormozi | IG 5M, YouTube 4.58M | Proof first; his top-viewed videos made zero sales |
| Personal Brand Launch | IG @personalbrandlaunch (Ava Yuergens) 1M | Study small creators who blew up; double down on 5x outliers |
| Gianna Capri | IG @jiannacapri 216K | Public "$100K in 90 days with AI" challenge series, free Skool |
| Creator Camp | IG @creatorcamp 313K | Film and creator events, not AI; 2 reels in window |
| Dhruv Mahajan | Likely IG @maujawaan.tech (65%, please confirm) | Hinglish tech reels; 1.68M reel on about 20K followers |
| "Angus Dartsville" | Likely IG @angus.sewell, Angus Sewell McCann (70%) | Informative AI how-tos for non-technical people, 195K |
| Robert Macchiavelli, World of Maya | Not found | Send the handles and they will be added |
| Superpowered.xyz | A parked domain for sale | No account behind it |
Pulled 21 October 2026, window 23 July to 21 October. YouTube Data API (110 channels, 7,497 uploads); X via a read-only session (41 accounts, 2,385 posts); Apify for Instagram (50 accounts, 897 reels), TikTok (31 profiles) and LinkedIn (37 profiles, 580 posts), $3.54 in total; Pew Research 2026; X's open-source ranking code; LinkedIn and YouTube official posts; public Skool pages; 1,982 YouTube and X comments; transcripts of the top posts.
Not confirmed: Instagram's AI-label rule; whether X Articles need Premium; LinkedIn's link penalty (third-party only); most revenue figures (self-reported, marked in the data); the Angus and Dhruv matches. Some samples cover the newest 10-36 posts per account rather than the full 90 days.
Data: topic bank · Instagram · TikTok · YouTube · X · LinkedIn