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Outperform Every Competitor in Your Instagram Niche

Ascend is the growth service that watches Instagram for you, across every client on your roster. Its AI engine watches what wins in each niche and knows why, remixing proven scripts into briefs your editors can film today and showing clients exactly where their reach comes from.

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Creator planning reel scripts at a laptop Hook 72% Solo business@desk.notes▶ 1.2M▲ +122%
Explainer reel frame with bold captions Hook 68% Education@brightseries▶ 2.4M▲ +203%
Aerial lifestyle reel frame over a coastline Hook 61% Travel@salt.air▶ 3.1M▲ +148%
Creator recording street interviews with a microphone Hook 66% Street interviews@askthecity▶ 1.8M▲ +176%
Boutique owner arranging clothing racks Hook 58% Retail@atelier.lena▶ 940K▲ +88%

1,204 reels indexed this weekUp to 30 tracked accounts per rosterRefreshed hourly

The library in numbers

2.4Mreels indexed, with full algorithmic breakdowns of why each one worked
12,800tracked accounts, from solo creators to 30 account agency rosters
40+niches covered, so every client vertical has scripts remixed daily

Real-time diagnostic

When a client asks why reach stalled, ask the assistant

Our AI determines exactly why you are not growing. Our AI determines why your reels are not getting reach using realtime data on when it gets stuck in the algorithm.

AI Assistant
The Ascend AI Assistant answering a question about the growth service, with suggested questions above the thread and an answer describing daily 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM sessions and 200 to 800 new followers a month

Instant, free answers

The assistant answers in seconds and never uses credits, so your team can ask on every account you track.

Grounded in the account

Answers draw on each client's daily sessions, audience settings, and follower data, not generic advice.

A report, not a hunch

Every answer names the numbers behind it, ready to paste into the client update.

The agency workflow

Four steps per client, on repeat

Each cycle takes about ten minutes per account and ends with a brief your editor can film from.

1

Connect client accounts

Add each client as a tracked account and set the niche where they need reach.

2

Watch what wins

The library serves only reels already outperforming in that client's niche.

3

Ask why it worked

Get the hook, retention curve, and distribution stages in one breakdown.

4

Brief and publish

Hand your editor the remixed script, post it, then watch the diagnostic.

Side by side

Your client's video against the one that went viral

Every card in the library wears its numbers: views, likes, and the breakout score that says how far past the account's baseline a reel traveled. Line a client reel up against the niche benchmark and drop the gap straight into the monthly report.

Benchmark reel of a creator speaking into a small microphone outdoors Viral benchmark
@mia_yilin_144K views · direct to camera
Reel library · niche grid
The Ascend reel library grid with analyzed reel cards carrying views, likes, and breakout scores, including pilates.daily at 2M views and 184K likes and gymlaughs at a 22.1X breakout
Benchmark found

In the fitness grid the benchmark is gymlaughs: 5.4M views, 402K likes, a 22.1x breakout. Ascend remixes hooks like that one into scripts for your client's next reel.

Client reel, an aerial small business lifestyle clip Client reel
@client.account9.4K views · same niche

The core difference

Most AIs get their info from the internet. We get our info from viral videos

Generic AI writers

Reads the internet

Blog posts about hooks. Threads about the algorithm. Summaries of summaries. By the time advice gets written down, the format is already saturated across your client verticals.

  • Scraped text, not watched footage
  • Knows the words, misses the pacing
  • Same advice for every client

Ascend

Watches the videos

Frames, cuts, captions, hook length, scene switches, watch time curves. Ascend studies the reels winning in each client's niche right now and explains why they work.

  • Frame level breakdowns of viral reels
  • Pacing and hook timing, measured
  • Remixed to each client account in real time

Reviews with receipts

Every quote ships with its number.

Four agency teams, four different levers: hooks, voice, formats, and pacing. The stat on the right is the one their client watched move.

“The diagnostic caught three of our accounts stalling at the Explore seed. We rebuilt hooks from the top reels in each niche and reach followed within a month.”

PSPriya S.Agency founder, 14 client accounts
↑ +118%
31.2Kavg impressions per client reel, up from 14.3K in 9 weeks

“Ascend rewrote a viral talking head script in our skincare client's exact voice, quirks included. The editor filmed it the same afternoon.”

ZAZoe A.Account manager
↑ +71%
8,700followers on the client account, up from 5,100 in 8 weeks

“Cross-niche transfer found a barbershop format that fit our cafe client's counter. Their weekend line says it worked.”

HYHana Y.Account lead, local business roster
↑ +204%
1,480saves per reel, up from 486 in 12 weeks

“Watch time was the leak on two accounts. The pacing notes from the top reels in each niche lifted it from 9 to 16 seconds.”

NENoah E.Head of content, creator agency
↑ +78%
16savg watch time, up from 9s in 7 weeks

Results

The proof your clients log in to see

Three real screens from the app: the audience a plan targets, the sessions that run six days a week, and the assistant working the account by hand.

Client onboardingDay one

Every client starts in Audience: who to reach, where, the language, and the interest signals that steer daily sessions toward fans of accounts like theirs.

The Ascend Audience view with a target profile of women in the United States, a target area map, interest signal chips, and goal tags for more followers and brand deals
200 to 800↑ targeted followers per month
Fitness client30 days

Loft Social's coaching client runs sessions 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, six days a week. Activity logged 84 follows today and 728 new followers in 30 days.

The Ascend Activity view with a session in progress showing 84 follows today, a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM six day schedule, and a follower curve up 728 in the last 30 days
+728 followers↑ in 30 days
Expert HelpGrowth and Max

On Growth and Max, a personal growth assistant works the account by hand. Zara Bose picked this one up and added 182 followers in her first week.

The Ascend growth journey with an active plan: setup steps checked off, Zara growing the account with 182 new followers this week, and the how it works video
+182 followers↑ this week

What we believe

Three beliefs we will not trade away

01

Virality lives in frames, not captions.

A scroll is won or lost in the first second of footage, before a single word is read. So the first thing Ascend studies in any reel is the hook frame.

02

Every recommendation needs a receipt.

If we cannot show you the source reel, its views, and its hook rate, we do not make the suggestion. That is also why your client reports write themselves: advice without evidence is just a guess with confidence.

03

Software should do the watching.

Running ten client accounts should not require scrolling eight hours a day. The library watches, pauses, and takes the notes. Your team makes the videos.

Compare plans

Priced by the size of your roster

Tracked accounts are your client list: Growth watches 10, Max watches 30. Credits power every breakdown and remix your team runs, and Expert Help ships with Growth and Max.

Compare plans Solo$50/mo Growth Most popular$150/mo Max$300/mo
Credits per month1,0005,00015,000
Tracked accounts31030
Viral reel analysis
Real-time script remixing
Algorithmic diagnostic
Expert Help
Growth PlanIncluded2x
Billed monthly Choose Solo Choose Growth Choose Max
Asha Rao, personal growth assistant Jay Morrison, personal growth assistant Zara Bose, personal growth assistant

Expert Help pairs each client account with a personal growth assistant like Asha Rao, Jay Morrison, or Zara Bose, working sessions by hand on Growth and Max.

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FAQ

Two minutes of honest answers

Eight questions from real agency onboarding calls, split so you can scan both columns at once.

Why watch the video instead of reading transcripts?

Because hooks are visual. The pause before a reveal, the text overlay, the cut landing on beat two: none of that survives in a transcript, and it is usually the reason the reel worked.

How many credits does a client roster need?

A client posting daily with a breakdown plus a remix per post spends about 175 credits a week. Growth covers a handful of daily posting clients; Max covers a full roster.

Can tracked accounts be client accounts?

Yes. Most agencies track each client plus that client's closest competitor. Ascend treats them the same: it watches new reels and distribution data on all of them.

Can I try it without a card?

Yes. Sign up for free - no credit card required. You can browse the library and open real breakdowns before choosing a plan.

How fast do new viral reels show up?

Continuously. The library is real time, so a format that broke out overnight is already indexed, with its distribution curve, by the time you open Ascend.

Will remixed scripts feel generic across clients?

No two remixes are the same, because the input is each client's account: their voice from past captions, their niche, and the specific reel you picked. The structure is proven; the words are theirs.

What do I hand my editor?

The remixed script plus its scene breakdown: hook frame, cut timings, and framing notes. It reads like a brief, so editors can film without watching the source reel on loop.

Where does diagnostic data come from?

From the real-time delivery data on each tracked account: hook rate, watch time, saves, shares, follows per reel, and how far each reel travels through the distribution stages.

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