“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.”
Built for agency rosters
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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1,204 reels indexed this weekUp to 30 tracked accounts per rosterRefreshed hourly
The library in numbers
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.
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.
Connect client accounts
Add each client as a tracked account and set the niche where they need reach.
Watch what wins
The library serves only reels already outperforming in that client's niche.
Ask why it worked
Get the hook, retention curve, and distribution stages in one breakdown.
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.
Viral benchmark
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
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.
“Ascend rewrote a viral talking head script in our skincare client's exact voice, quirks included. The editor filmed it the same afternoon.”
“Cross-niche transfer found a barbershop format that fit our cafe client's counter. Their weekend line says it worked.”
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
What we believe
Three beliefs we will not trade away
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.
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.
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 month | 1,000 | 5,000 | 15,000 |
| Tracked accounts | 3 | 10 | 30 |
| Viral reel analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time script remixing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Algorithmic diagnostic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expert Help | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Growth Plan | ✕ | Included | 2x |
| Billed monthly | Choose Solo | Choose Growth | Choose Max |
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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