Build Your Tribe

The episode delivers roughly a dozen concrete workflow ideas for AI-assisted Instagram management, a few of which (ManyChat timing automation, collab Venn diagram) are genuinely novel and actionable. However, significant portions are sponsor reads, throat-clearing, self-promotion, and ideas so generic ('use Claude to organize your files') that they add little value to a savvy operator.

“Claude Cowork does that for me once a week. I tell Cloud Cowork, hey, here are my 7 or 17 or 3 posts in the next 7 days that require a Manychat DM automation to be turned on. Then 15 minutes before the post goes live it will go into Manychat and it will automatically turn on the next post or reel function.”

“I had Claude Cowork create a bunch of carousels for me based off of essentially a Venn diagram of my content and the person who I wanted to collaborate with's content.”

The ManyChat scheduling-window problem and its automated solution is a genuinely original, first-hand operational insight. The collab post Venn diagram idea is also fresh. But the majority of ideas (AI organizes saved posts, AI drafts story polls, AI labels files) are already well-circulated AI-workflow advice, and the 'don't let AI replace you' framing is a common 2025 take.

“the biggest danger for creators in 2026 is not being replaced by AI. It's voluntarily replacing themselves with AI.”

“I had Claude Cowork create a bunch of carousels for me based off of essentially a Venn diagram of my content and the person who I wanted to collaborate with's content.”

This is a solo episode with no guest; the host is a social media educator and content creator operating at the small-business level. He has real hands-on experience with the tools he describes, but he is not a senior B2B operator and his frame of reference is personal Instagram growth rather than enterprise or even mid-market scale.

“Every single day, at least once a day for the last two or three months, I've gone up to my wife Tay at some point and said I have to tell you what Claude Cowork is doing for me right now.”

“I don't know how to code. I don't know how to do any of this myself. I just went into Claude code and I told it my problem.”

The host names specific tools (ManyChat, Metricool, Poppy AI, Canva, Dropbox, Claude Code, Google Sheets) and provides some concrete operational numbers. What is missing is any outcome data - follower growth, conversion rates, revenue impact - that would allow a listener to calibrate the real business value of these automations.

“I usually have anywhere from 5 to 10 Instagram posts going up every single day”

“I probably only get to about 20% of my messages and comments on Instagram on a daily basis”

This is an uninterviewed solo monologue; no conversational craft is structurally possible. Within the monologue itself the host is reasonably organised (numbered list, logical flow) but meanders frequently, repeats ideas across adjacent items, and buries practical detail under personal anecdote and sponsor reads.

“And I brought up carousels a few times in this episode because carousels are one of the most slept on ways to grow on Instagram.”

“But if you found today helpful, don't forget to hit that like button. And as always, happy networking There.”