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Real Instagram outbound now runs on AI-qualified, AI-written cold DMs sent through unofficial APIs and proxies, not ManyChat comment triggers, and staying under strict daily limits is what keeps the account from getting banned.

Who This Is For

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READ IF YOU ARE…

A cold-outreach operator running email or LinkedIn automation who wants to add Instagram DMs without buying another point-and-click SaaS tool.
Someone comfortable running n8n workflows or briefing an AI coding tool to build them, since none of this is a one-click install.
An agency owner who wants to reach out to prospects directly instead of waiting on inbound comments and ManyChat triggers.

SKIP IF…

You want a beginner-friendly, plug-and-play tool. This means stitching together a lead database, a scraper, an AI writer and a proxy service yourself.
You're not willing to risk an Instagram account. The entire method runs outside Meta's approved API and the creator says it could get an account banned.

TL;DR

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The video argues real Instagram lead generation is outbound, not the inbound ManyChat comment-trigger automation every other tutorial teaches. The system runs in two n8n workflows: one filters a 270,000-profile lead database by bio keywords and follower count, then an AI agent qualifies each profile and writes a personalized DM; the second sends five DMs at a time, ten times a day, through an Apify actor using the creator's own session cookies and a residential or mobile proxy. Replies are handled by Unipile, a $5-a-month tool that rebuilds Instagram and LinkedIn's private messaging APIs so an AI agent can read and draft replies past the 24-hour window official tools can't reach. Stay under 50 DMs a day and vary the copy to avoid a ban.

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Chapters

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00:00 – 02:07

01 · AutoIGDM Shut Down

The creator explains why AutoIGDM shutting down forced a better system, and previews an outbound machine that finds, qualifies and DMs leads automatically.

02:07 – 03:50

02 · Instagram Automation Safety Rules

Lays out the safety rules: this runs outside Meta's approved API, carries real ban risk, and paying for ads and verification lowers that risk.

03:50 – 04:47

03 · Step 1: Finding Leads

Explains the old way of finding leads, scraping followers or commenters, and why it produced too many low-quality names to qualify by hand.

04:47 – 05:51

04 · Consulti Instagram Lead Database

Demonstrates Consulti, a searchable Instagram lead database filtered by bio keywords and follower count, replacing manual scraping entirely.

05:51 – 06:22

05 · Qualifying Leads With AI

Shows the AI qualifier agent that checks each scraped profile against the sender's ideal customer profile before proceeding.

06:22 – 07:59

06 · Perplexity Research Writes DMs

Shows the research and copywriting step: a Perplexity-powered agent researches each qualified lead and drafts a personalized DM into Google Sheets.

07:59 – 08:31

07 · The Apify Sending Actor

Introduces the second n8n workflow and the Apify actor that sends DMs using the creator's authenticated session cookies.

08:31 – 09:37

08 · Daily Limits And Delays

Details the exact limits to respect: five DMs at a time, ten batches a day, capped at 50 total, to avoid tripping Instagram's spam detection.

09:37 – 11:15

09 · Residential Vs Mobile Proxies

Covers proxy requirements, residential minimum, mobile IP best, and the importance of never repeating the same DM text.

11:15 – 14:30

10 · Why Unipile Beats ManyChat

Introduces Unipile as the fix for platforms with no DM API for replies older than 24 hours, and shows the creator's connected accounts.

14:30 – 17:10

11 · Hermes Replies To Everything

Shows the Hermes AI agent reading Instagram, LinkedIn and Skool messages daily and drafting replies for a human setter to approve, edit or skip.

17:10 – 18:46

12 · Cold DM Copy Rules

Breaks down the exact copywriting prompt and banned-word list used to write DMs that don't sound AI-generated or trip spam filters.

18:46 – 22:21

13 · Filtering The Right Leads

Walks through live filtering in Consulti to narrow 270,000 profiles down to a qualified, exportable list ready to hand to an AI agent.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

Outbound Instagram DMs beat inbound ManyChat comment triggers because you choose exactly who gets the message instead of sorting through whoever happens to comment.
A lead database filtered by bio keywords, follower count and post count replaced manually scraping a competitor's few hundred followers one profile at a time.
This entire DM automation runs outside Meta's approved API, which is why it can get an Instagram account banned even after a year of running it safely.
Staying under 50 outbound DMs a day, sent five at a time across ten daily batches, is presented as the ceiling for not tripping Instagram's spam detection.
A 60 to 360 second random delay between messages is what makes automated sending look human instead of scripted.
Words like 'free,' '100%,' 'trial' and 'purchase' can get a cold DM read as spam before a human ever opens it.
Unipile reconstructed Instagram and LinkedIn's internal messaging APIs for $5 per connected account a month, unlocking replies past the 24-hour window official integrations block.
Neither Instagram, LinkedIn nor Skool expose a usable DM endpoint for messages older than about a day, which is exactly when comment-trigger tools go silent.
A residential proxy in the sender's own country is the acceptable floor; a mobile IP proxy that mimics a real phone connection is the safer upgrade.
Paying for Meta ads and account verification is framed as real insurance against suspension, not just a growth tactic.
The AI qualifier only proceeds to research and write a DM after checking the lead's profile against the sender's ideal customer profile.
Routing every AI-drafted reply through a human who can send, edit or skip it is described as training the agent's judgment, not a permanent bottleneck.

Takeaway

What replaced ManyChat for cold Instagram DMs

OUTBOUND DM SYSTEM

Real Instagram lead generation runs on two automated workflows: one filters and qualifies leads with AI, the other sends and replies to DMs while staying under Instagram's spam limits.

01AutoIGDM Shut Down

Outbound, deciding who gets contacted, beats inbound comment-trigger automation because it puts lead selection in your hands instead of whoever happens to comment.
A tool shutting down is a forcing function, not a dead end. It's the reason a more durable AI-built system got made in the first place.

02Instagram Automation Safety Rules

This kind of DM automation runs outside Meta's approved API and violates Instagram's terms of service, so any account running it carries real ban risk.
A brand-new, unverified account with no ad spend and low normal engagement is the riskiest place to run this. Established, verified, ad-spending accounts have more cover.

03Step 1: Finding Leads

Scraping a single account's followers or commenters used to be the only way to find leads, and it topped out around a few hundred names that still needed manual qualifying.
The old scrape-then-qualify approach loses most of its leads at the qualifying step, which is why filtering earlier saves the most time.

04Consulti Instagram Lead Database

A searchable database of Instagram profiles, filterable by bio keywords and follower count, replaces manual follower or commenter scraping outright.
Narrowing filters progressively, keywords, then follower range, then minimum post count, is how a huge pool of matching profiles gets cut down to a usable list.

05Qualifying Leads With AI

An AI qualifier agent checks a scraped profile against the sender's offer and ideal customer profile before any research or copywriting happens.
Qualifying automatically before writing anything prevents wasted AI spend on leads that were never going to be a fit.

06Perplexity Research Writes DMs

A research agent checks a lead's website and public info before writing to them, so the DM references something specific instead of a generic template fill.
The output of the research-and-write step lands in a plain spreadsheet: name, username, profile URL, bio, and the drafted DM, ready to send.

07The Apify Sending Actor

The actual sending step uses a browser-automation actor authenticated with the operator's own session cookies, not an official messaging API.
Multiple automation actors offer this same DM-sending capability, so it's worth comparing a few and picking ones with strong reviews and active maintenance.

08Daily Limits And Delays

Sending five DMs at a time across ten batches a day, capped at 50 total, is the specific ceiling described for staying under Instagram's radar.
A random delay of 60 to 360 seconds between messages is what separates automated sending from something that reads as scripted and gets flagged.

09Residential Vs Mobile Proxies

A residential proxy located in the account's own country is the acceptable floor. A mobile IP proxy that looks like a real phone connection is the safer ceiling.
Never repeating the same message text matters as much as the proxy choice, since duplicate copy is its own spam signal independent of IP reputation.

10Why Unipile Beats ManyChat

Instagram, LinkedIn and Skool all stop exposing a usable DM endpoint once a conversation is roughly a day old, which is exactly when comment-trigger tools go silent.
A third-party service that reverse-engineers a platform's private messaging API, at a few dollars per connected account a month, can unlock actions no official integration supports.

11Hermes Replies To Everything

A daily agent reading every DM thread across three platforms and drafting replies is only useful with a human-approval step in front of it.
Routing every AI-drafted reply through a human who can send, edit or skip it is described as training the agent's judgment over time, not a permanent bottleneck.

12Cold DM Copy Rules

Words like 'free,' '100%,' 'trial' and 'purchase' can get a cold DM read as spam before a human ever opens it.
A DM copywriting prompt with almost no creative freedom, just write a personalized opening line, is deliberate, because giving an AI more latitude is what makes copy sound AI-generated.
Opening a cold DM with a specific, personalized question about the recipient's account outperforms a generic opener, the same rule that applies to cold email.

13Filtering The Right Leads

The wrong instinct is reaching out to the people a niche expert follows, since those are usually peers, not the audience that actually needs the offer.
Thinking through what your ideal lead would literally write in their own bio is the fastest way to build a working keyword filter.
Layering exclusion keywords and activity minimums, follower range, post count, is how an enormous list of matching profiles gets cut down to a workable few thousand.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Apify: A cloud platform for running browser-automation bots called actors, used here to scrape Instagram profiles and send DMs through a logged-in session.
Session cookie: The authentication token saved in a browser after logging into a site, fed into an automation tool so it can act as if it were that logged-in user.
Residential proxy: An internet connection routed through a real home IP address rather than a data-center server, making automated traffic look like an ordinary person browsing.
Unipile: A third-party service that reverse-engineers Instagram and LinkedIn's private messaging systems, exposing API endpoints for actions the official platforms don't officially support.
n8n: An open-source workflow automation tool used to chain scraping, AI-writing and DM-sending steps into one automated pipeline.
Consulti: A searchable database of Instagram profiles that can be filtered by bio keywords, follower count and post count to find qualified leads.

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00:40

“I've been doing this for over a year now, completely safely, and it's generated me millions of dollars.”

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08:31

“Stay under 50 DMs per day and break it up into five at a time. That way you'll be safe.”

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09:35

“You want to have a nice human delay between messages, at least 60 seconds, and ideally you range it from like 60 to 360 just to feel more human.”

specific, practical automation tip→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

19:08

“There's words and phrases that you should avoid like free or 100% or trial or purchase.”

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All right, so a year ago, I told you to use a tool called Auto IGDM to automate your outbound Instagram DMs. Well, they finally shut down. They're closed for business.

And honestly, this is a good thing. because by the end of this video, I'm gonna help you automate your outbound Instagram DMs as well. And here's the thing that nobody tells you about automating Instagram DMs.

Every video you've probably watched before this one is all telling you the same BS. Use ManyChat, set up a ManyChat automation. When somebody comments, you send them a DM, or when they follow you, you'll send them a DM.

I'm not talking about any of those things in this video. Today, we're gonna talk about real automation for your Instagram DMs. In fact, if Meta sees this video, there's a good chance that...

they ban my Instagram accounts. I've been doing this for over a year now, completely safely, and it's generated me millions of dollars. The real money is in outbound, deciding exactly who gets the message.

You go hunt, not wait for people to come and comment on your posts. Because even though it works, you should do that too. It's awesome.

You end up getting a lot of BS leads versus if you go hunt them down, you get a much higher quality lead. So today I'm going to show you the exact machine that I built that finds my ideal leads, qualifies every single one of them with AI, writes a personalized DM for each that actually lands in their inbox and gets opened and sends them safely, all automated.

No comment triggers, no expensive software. And in fact, I'm going to show you the exact system that I use to respond and interact and actually appointment set all of these DMs, regardless of when they came in, seven days, 30 days, 60 days ago. This is content I would usually reserve for my paid community.

So if you appreciate me sharing some of these insider secrets with you, make sure that you subscribe and leave a comment. so you don't miss more videos like this. I actually run multiple eight -figure companies and I am building with AI and implementing real systems that actually generate millions of dollars.

Can you say the same about the other people you subscribe to on YouTube? Probably not. Let's get in.

All right, now in the past, to my paid communities, I've taught these two N8N automations that basically finds leads on Instagram and then reaches out to them automatically using a couple of different tools and some AI tactics. Now with cloud code, you probably don't even need to use these N8N workflows anymore. But regardless of whether you use these N8N automations or not, the tools and processes and rules that you need to follow are the same.

Instagram does not like to be automated. If you want to set yourself up to reach out to people like this at scale and respond. to them all the time, 24 seven, through automation, you need to follow a certain set of rules so you don't get your Instagram account banned.

It's also probably worth me sharing here that if you have an Instagram account and it's brand new and you don't have a verification check, you don't pay Meta any money, you don't actively engage on Instagram normally, you probably shouldn't do this because it can be risky for your account. What I'm about to teach you is against Meta's terms of service.

When I said they might ban my account for making this video, I wasn't lying. The activity I'm teaching you is not verified by meta all the stuff that happens on many chat or go high level automations those are api endpoints that medic gives you they're okay they're authenticated they have the thumbs up from meta from instagram what i'm going to be teaching you today does not so just know that implementing this comes with some inherent risk with that being said i've been doing this for several years on multiple accounts and it's been perfectly safe for me and with that being said i do have a lot of activity on here i've got a lot of teammates logged in i do pay meta a lot of money both ads and for this verification badge and the best way to prevent your account from being suspended or deleted is pay the money get the verification badge run some meta ads and this is all going to be a lot smoother you're not going to get suspended and if you stay under the limits that i tell you and follow the cadence that i tell you

your account will be safe all right let's dive into automation number one now you don't have to use this n8n workflow you can just take the principles i'm going to teach you give it to your cloud code even give it this transcript and have it build you an exact system and whatever software that you want but it's important that you follow these rules first you need to find accounts to reach out to and you need to write something personalized to them that's going to get open now finding accounts to reach out to is this kind of this whole step one of this automation and it was not that easy to do So in the past, I only had two ways to do it.

You could scrape comments from an account or you could scrape the people that an account was following. So if I wanted to scrape this 546 people that I'm following, good chance they're marketers. Good chance I can reach out to them.

I can at least go through their profiles and see, or I can scrape the people commenting on my posts or other people's posts, public profiles. So this workflow really has two paths to find people. Now you don't have to do any of this.

You don't have to rely on this BS anymore because we've got consulting. So consult the AI and you can. the instagram lead database you can actually just filter by words in their bio and other metrics so if i want to look for people with marketing with at least 500 followers i've got 270 000 people that i can reach out to that i've got their usernames i've got their information on their profile and i can export those and start reaching out to them in bulk there is no other solution right now where you can do this so consultee makes this a lot easier actually waited to make this video because now you barely need step one of this workflow anymore because you can literally just add the filters on Consulti and go to work.

But here's arguably the most important part. Even with Consulti helping you on the lead side, by the way, you can sign up for Consulti right now, 50 % off. There's a discount code in the description of this video.

If it lasts that long, hopefully they don't remove it. So if you want to save yourself all of the pain of trying to go through these tiny little numbers, because remember, if I was to scrape my following, I would get 546 leads. And then you have to qualify them.

Actually check each of their profiles and make sure they're a good fit. and that's a whole additional step. You probably go from 500 to 50.

You skip a lot of that by just going to consultee and adding some filters and exporting from here. So step one is find sources for the leads. And then what's gonna happen in step two here is processing the profiles and writing the DMs.

So it loops over each one that I've scraped or that you exported from consultee, and you wanna qualify it first. This qualifier actually makes sure that it's a good lead to interact with. Now, in order to give this agent enough information about the profile to make sure it's a good one to interact with, we do run this Appify agent right here that actually grabs the Instagram profile details and it feeds it to this qualifier agent so it can see, is this a good fit for my offer, my ICP or not?

If so, it proceeds and does research on that profile, checks their website, checks their name, does perplexity research on them and writes really good copy that they're likely going to open that's personalized to them. Now, if you're interested in this, I can drop the the prompt that I use to actually write copy to these Instagram leads.

It's gonna be in the link down below. So if you wanna opt in, it'll have the prompt and it'll have some resources for you here, including the consultee discount. And then from there, it's going to add to Google Sheets.

What it's gonna add is the full name of the person they're reaching out to, their username, the URL to their profile, their bio, and the DM that you've written to them. And then complete, not done. And now that you've got this Google Sheet full of people that you're going to reach out to, and what you're going to say to them now step two of this comes into play and remember you don't have to use these n8n workflows to run this anymore it's nice because it happens on an automated cadence you don't have to think about it like a cloud code you have to actually go in there and say you know send it to this many people mine actually happens now through a cron job on my hermes agent so i've got an ai agent running on my mac mini that does this now instead of this n8n workflow so it's a little bit more dynamic and i'll show you how i set that up towards the end of this video if you stick around That'll be my gift to you.

But this helps me kind of show you the process and what it actually goes through so you can train your AI agent and do what mine does. Because mine actually follows pretty much this exact process. All right, step two is the actual DM engine.

Actually sending the DMs through Instagram. And this is the thing that can be a little bit risky. It's the thing that Instagram doesn't actually like.

So how this works is 10 times a day, it grabs the last five DMs and it loops through those DMs. And it uses an Appify actor to actually send those DMs. Now, the Appify actor that it uses is this one.

There are several. So if you want to price shop and just test a few, they all work quite well. Just look for the ones with high reviews that are actively working.

And the way that all of these Appify actors work is they use your session IDs. So this is like your authentication token when you're logged into Instagram. When I'm here in my browser and I come to developer tools, I'm going to come into inspect.

It's got all of my browser cookies and my authentication cookies. And I can feed that into this Appify actor so it can use my authentic. authenticated session to send dms from my profile to whoever i want there's just a couple things that you need to know about running automations like this especially for instagram there's limits that you have to stay under and within to be safe there's a reason that this is not sending 500 dms per day it's only sending it 10 times per day at various intervals and it's limiting to five at a time this is the limitation that you need to hold steady to if you want to stay safe i don't know what you can crank this up to and frankly i don't want you to test it out for me i don't want to be your responsible for you losing your Instagram account.

Stay under 50 DMs per day and break it up into five at a time. That way you'll be safe. When you're replying to DMs, it's a totally different story.

But when you're sending outbound DMs to people for the first time, you want to make sure to stay under their radar and that's how you do it. Other thing to note here. is you want to have a nice human delay between messages at least 60 seconds and ideally you range it from like 60 to 360 just to feel more human now the most important thing is the message text you don't want to send the same message over and over again we already handled that in step one because it wrote unique messages to each instagram user and the final piece here is the proxy the proxy configuration you need to use in appify there's really two that are acceptable residential in the united states or wherever your location you're in whatever location that you're logged into your Instagram from, is the minimum acceptable proxy that you can use.

Best case, you use mobile proxies, actual mobile IP addresses that look like they're coming from your phone. I don't believe Appify offers that, but you can use your own proxies and plug in your own mobile IP proxies here. But for most cases, residential should do just fine as long as you follow the other rules.

Finally, it updates the Google Sheet and that's it. You reached out to that person via DM. You can hit them again, you can hit them three times, all through these similar processes.

kind of the gist of how Instagram DM automation works. There's the prompts, there's the scraping, you got to find the right people to reach out to, and there's what you say to the DMs, there's the follow ups. Now, here's where it gets really interesting.

With the introduction of AI and agents, and some other tools that help you connect a little bit better to Instagram, you're actually able to do a lot more. And that's what I'm really excited to share with you today. And by the way, guys, the links to access kind of these workflows, the appify actors that i'm using consultee is all going to be down below so if you're curious and want to grab those links they are there nowadays now that we're in 2026 and we've got cloud code and we've got hermes agents and open claw you can now get a lot more fancy with this so this is my social media app and my setter's actually in here going through all of these replies and every day my hermes agent is going through my instagram dms my emails my linkedin messages and it's actively sending replies to dms in all of these platforms school.

Now these are all platforms that don't like to be automated. LinkedIn does not have a DM endpoint. School does not have a DM endpoint.

And neither does Instagram, especially after a certain number of days. You can do some things with ManyChat and go high level, but it really restricts you when it comes down to, did that person reach out in the last 24 hours? Can you get back to them?

You'll notice as you start building these ManyChat automations, it's a big problem. And there's a way to get around that. And the platform that I want to show you today, it's actually called Unipop.

So I'm not sponsored. I'm not going to get any money from you going over here and checking them out.

What Unipile has done is they've reconstructed Instagram and LinkedIn's internal API so that you can connect to both of these accounts and do things that you could not normally do otherwise. So yes, I can connect LinkedIn and Instagram to my blo -tato and I can post using their automation. I can connect this to ManyChat and I can send somebody a DM if they comment on my post.

But there's a lot of things that I can't do. And for all of those things that you currently can't do or your agent currently can't do, do there are other tools to get around those things unipile is one of those tools they manage these integrations they keep you logged in and they give you a new set of api endpoints that lets you do a lot of other really cool stuff for example you can comment on people's posts you can reply to comments on people's posts you can send messages and get messages from all of those accounts that you could not get otherwise this is a whole set of endpoints that i now have for linkedin and instagram that don't exist anywhere else and you want to guess how expensive unipile is for me to run five dollars per account per month so compared to any other paid tool this is just unbelievably cheap unbelievably affordable.

And I don't have to deal with Appify actors that are breaking. I don't have to deal with re -logging into my account all the time. They manage the authentication.

As you can see, I logged into this a month ago and it's still logged in. Logged into this 16 days ago, and it hasn't disconnected since. Now, once in a while, you do have to come in here and reconnect, but that's normal pretty much any third -party platform.

Now, this is actually one of the secrets that I use to really unblock my Hermes agent. This is the one that I text. This is Bob.

Bob is my 24 -7 Mac mini agent that does everything for me. Replies to comments, generates comments, handles all of my DM conversations, my emails. It's connected to everything, even things that it shouldn't be connected to, including school, which doesn't have a Unipile connection.

you're interested in me making a video about how it connects to school and automates that, drop a comment, let me know. And if there's enough of you that like that comment or comment, I'll make that video. But by giving it access to Unipile, it's able to do a lot of really cool stuff.

Now, Unipile offers a bunch of other connections as well. You can connect WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, X, and your email accounts. Now, I don't need it for any of those other things, so I'm really just using it for these two.

And by the way, guys, if you're building a software product, this is a... Here, use this to make money. If you don't make money...

With AI right now, here's an opportunity. With their version two, I'm gonna go ahead and go in there. I think I already have like a free trial account.

Yeah, so Unipile now has a version two where you can actually host their authentication. And I'm planning on doing this with Consulti. So people can sign in to their LinkedIn and their Instagram, and it looks like you're doing the authentication and keeping that authentication layer.

Meanwhile, in the backend, it is all Unipile. and you're paying me, you know, 97 a month, and I'm paying Unipile $5 per month to manage that connection. So you can actually use this to deploy your own software apps as well.

Now, the way that I like to use that is in here. I actually have my setter in here. So every day, my Hermes agent goes through my LinkedIn, my Instagram, school, and generates AI replies, stores the whole conversation thread, and people can come in here and see, okay, here's the thread, here's the proposed AI reply.

I can either send it, edit it or skip it. And now I'm training my Hermes agent on what should be said what those edits should be.

And now there's a human in the loop step. So all of these get some human eyes on them, we get an increased quality, but I could just say go ahead and send everything confidence level above 80. And most of these would deliver and hopefully the confidence level gets up up and up where I can just unlock and have it do everything kind of fully freely.

Now next I want to actually tell you how this is configured and what you should say in an Instagram DM a cold instagram dm so that you can actually get somebody to open it and respond and there's actually like a multi -step sequence that you can run to really optimize your results but before we do that i just want to ask you if this is helpful and this is unique and you haven't seen this anywhere else on youtube and you appreciate me doing this it means a lot to the channel if you could like this video leave a comment down below if you want to see more of this or if you're appreciative and make sure that you're subscribed to the channel it does help a lot normally i would make something like this behind a paywall in fact i have for a long time now this This video is sponsored by me.

And if you do want to support me and join an amazing community of people using AI to grow their business, to automate their social media, and to make real money, I'm actually using AI to grow my eight -figure agencies, Otter PR and LeadGenJ. We're building software companies. So if you want to see and copy exactly what I'm doing, I have an amazing paid community that you can join right now.

It's lifetime access. You get coaching every week with me forever, and you can literally just download and install all of my systems, including this Instagram DM engine. that I've taught for over a year now and still crushes.

But not just that, you'll be able to download the AI systems that I'm now teaching, like installing my exact Hermes agent that's already configured and integrated with all these things. You can download my social media app, this one here, that you can actually get this entire app that you can link your Hermes agent to and start using it.

And you may have also noticed this is connected to school and Reddit. So if you're like, how do I connect to those things? It's all in the AI Automation Insider.

So make sure that you get in there. It's going to be linked down below. So the price goes up every quarter and we've really been sticking to that to really limit the number of people that come in every month.

Now let's talk about strategy a little bit. Who should you be reaching out to? Anytime we're doing cold outreach, there's a three -part mechanism.

Am I able to send this to somebody's inbox? Now with cold email, that's kind of one mechanism. With Instagram DMs, it's another.

You have to have good profile authority. Your profile can't be flagged as spam. So you need to really work on your Instagram presence here.

Being verified helps. All that stuff helps. So work on your Instagram presence.

because if I come into my DMs, messages over here on the left, I really don't want to end up in somebody's hidden requests. This is like ending up in somebody's spam folder. People don't check that so much.

You want to end up in their regular requests or ideally in their general tab. Now, if you want to end up in their regular requests, you need to say something unique. You need to get their attention, get them to open it and not say anything spammy.

So there's words and phrases that you should avoid like free or 100 % or trial or purchase. email rules apply. You want to keep it short, you want to keep it personalized.

And when you want to open with a question, a question that is hyper personalized and focused on their account. So let's take a look at my copywriting prompt. You're an experienced sales associate for lead Gen J specific personalized compliment, and then hope it's all right to tell you about this because no one is doing this yet.

And I think you'll like it. I built the system that finds Instagram accounts like yours, research, researches them and sends hyper personalized messages like this one, you could use it to an personalized way they could use this outreach system want me to send over the install instructions what you'll notice here are there are no banned phrases this isn't free this isn't doesn't say sale doesn't say purchase there's a whole list of words and phrases to avoid journey transformation i don't want it to sound ai generated i wrote this so the ai doesn't have to do too much guessing all it has to do is write a first sentence and a personalized way they can use the outreach system i don't want to give it too much freedom or creative prowess because usually it ends up writing something that sounds ai generated and i really don't want that so here's all the rules again i'm going to include this prompt down below if you want to install it and start using it.

And then for who you should be reaching out to, you really want to reach out to people that are one, actually a good fit for your business and two, actually likely to reply. So you want to have a good first message that's personalized and clear and you want to find the right people to reach out to. So coming into Consultee's Instagram lead database, let's actually apply some filters and make sure that you're reaching out to people that are a good fit and likely to respond.

Let's take my PR firm as an example. This is the offer that I want to try and do an outreach system for. So I need to find people who are interested in PR.

Now what the wrong thing to do would be is go to Instagram and find someone who's like a PR expert and only reach out to the people who are their following. Because the people they're following probably aren't interested in PR. They're probably other PR experts.

And that's not who I want. I want people who need the credibility, need the recognition. So I'm going to come into Consulty and just think, okay, what does somebody who needs PR write in their...

bio. And you can even have this brainstorming exercise with like ChatGPT or Claude if you want. I'm going to go ahead and remove a couple of these filters and we're going to start from scratch.

What does somebody like that write in their bio? Well, they might write speaker, author. These are people that need PR and they clearly care about being featured in the media.

They might write Forbes, like featured in Forbes, but I want to maybe exclude like contributor or author. If I write Forbes, I don't want Forbes contributors. I don't want Forbes editors.

So then now Now that I've got some of these keywords, I've got 90 ,000 profiles. That's awesome.

Let's actually go into some of these bios and see if they make sense for me. So let's open up a couple of these and read their bio. performer producer singer forbes top 10 this would probably be a good fit for me now they're in india so maybe not oh look we've got their email too very cool so i want to go through a couple of these people and make sure that they would actually be a good fit based on what's in their bio the next thing is maybe i don't want to reach out to the most famous of these people you know this person's got what is that 72 million followers she's probably not in their dms and accepting pitch requests so i want to set some follower minimums and maximums so maybe minimum they've got 500 followers and maybe maximum they've got let's say 1 million I need to add one more zero.

Okay, beautiful. Now we're down to about 63 ,000 profiles that match. I still think that's way too much.

I think you can add a bunch of exclusionary keywords. We can maybe go into posts and make sure they've got at least 10 posts that these profiles are actually active. Now we're down to 52 ,000.

So now you wanna really try and work your way down and get hyper -targeted about who you're gonna be reaching out to. And from there, you can just select, okay, I want maybe 10 ,000 of these people. We're gonna apply that and export them to a C.

And you can either give your Hermes agent that CSV and give it these N8N workflows and prompts so it can learn exactly what to do and what phases to follow. Or you can just install this into the N8N workflow itself and put it into the CSV file with all of the DMs that you want to send. Obviously, you can give Claude the CSV file and say, go fill this out.

Go write all the DMs. And then start sending those DMs through this Appify workflow. Every day, 50 DMs.

And I promise you, you will make money. All right, my friends. That is enough for today.

I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did and you got value, let me know down below. Please drop a like if it helps.

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The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

AutoIGDM, the tool this creator used to recommend for outbound Instagram DMs, shut down. He says that's a good thing: what replaced it is a two-workflow AI system that finds leads, qualifies them, writes personalized DMs and sends them, without a single ManyChat comment trigger.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

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The Two-Step Cold DM Machine

Find and qualify leads with AI
Send and reply to DMs through unofficial APIs

The whole system splits into one n8n workflow that scrapes/filters, qualifies, researches and writes DMs into a spreadsheet, and a second workflow that sends them and handles replies.

Steal forany outbound cold-outreach channel, not just Instagram

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The Safe-Sending Limits

5 DMs per batch
10 batches per day
50 DMs max per day
60-360s random delay between sends

The specific cadence the creator says keeps an automated Instagram account under the platform's spam radar.

Steal forany automated outbound channel with a ban/suspension risk (Instagram, LinkedIn, cold email warmup)

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DM Copywriting Rules

No banned words (free, 100%, trial, purchase)
Open with a hyper-personalized question
Keep it short
Give the AI a narrow, low-creativity prompt

A constrained copywriting prompt designed to avoid both spam filters and AI-generated-sounding copy.

Steal forcold email, cold DM, or any AI-written first-touch outreach message

CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK

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