A complete walkthrough6 steps~4-min read

The whole process,
nothing hidden.

Most Instagram growth services are a black box — you pay, followers appear, you hope they're real. Ours isn't. Below is exactly what happens after you sign up: who does the work, how they're chosen, how we connect to your account, how the targeting gets built, what a working day looks like, and how we exit cleanly when you're done.

In short

The model, in one paragraph.

You're assigned one Growth Manager who's responsible for your account, Monday to Friday. You connect Instagram once — either by sharing access the same way you would with a social media manager, or with a one-time login link from the app if you'd rather not share your password. Together, you agree on the kind of audience you want to attract. Then your Manager spends each day liking, commenting, and following accounts that match — by hand, from a real iPhone. Those people get a notification, visit your profile, and the ones who like what they see follow you back. Every week your Manager refines the targeting based on what's converting. You can check your progress any time on your dashboard. When the campaign ends, every account we followed gets cleanly unfollowed. That's it.

Step 01

First, you meet the human who runs your account.

Within hours of signing up, you're matched with a Growth Manager from our in-house team. They become the single point of contact for your account — not a shared inbox, not a ticketing queue, not a chatbot pretending to be a person.

Before they touch a thing, they study your profile. They look at the content you post, the tone you use, the audiences you might be reaching but aren't, and what's working for accounts in your niche. Then they reach out, introduce themselves, and walk you through the strategy they're proposing — by email or video call, whichever you prefer.

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Tessa
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Most growth services hide behind email addresses. Ours doesn't. Book a call. Look me in the eye. Ask anything, change direction whenever you want.
Average response time: under 4 working hours
Your Manager is one of 14

14 Growth Managers working side by side in our office. Each one trained the same way, working the same hours, accountable to one client at a time.

Meet the full team
Step 02

Connect your Instagram Securely.

There are two ways to give us access. Pick whichever you're more comfortable with.

Share access the traditional way

Send your username and password through our secure onboarding form — the same way you'd share access with a social media agency or freelancer. Most clients choose this option because it's the quickest to set up.

Takes about a minute. Stored encrypted, accessed only by your Growth Manager.

One-time login link from Instagram

If you'd rather not share your password, Instagram lets you send a sign-in link straight to your email. You forward it to us, we tap it once, and we're in. The link expires after we use it.

We log in from an iPhone in our office, using a VPN set to your region so Instagram sees a familiar location.
Two-factor authentication, Facebook-linked accounts, and recovery codes — we have onboarding steps for all of them.
You can revoke access at any time.
Step 03

You know your audience. We find them.

Your Growth Manager builds a target list before any engagement starts. They identify accounts whose followers look like the audience you want — competitors in your niche, complementary brands, local businesses if you're location-focused, creators with overlapping audiences.

You see the list before we start. You can add to it, remove from it, or send us accounts of your own — many of our best-performing clients send us a list of competitors or aspirational accounts they want us to mine. It's your account, your audience, your call.

Niche

By interest, content style, and audience overlap. Useful for creators and category brands.

Location

City, region, or country level. Essential for local businesses, restaurants, studios, service providers.

Audience overlap

Followers of specific accounts you want to share an audience with. Often the highest-converting option.

Send us a list of 5–10 accounts you'd love to share an audience with. Our highest-growth clients almost always do.
Step 04

Then your Manager goes to work. On a real phone. By hand.

Monday to Friday, your Growth Manager logs into your account on a physical iPhone. They scroll through the audience you've agreed on. They like posts that match your brand's tone. They leave thoughtful comments where it makes sense. They follow accounts that look like the right kind of follower for you. Up to 150 considered actions a day — the upper edge of what Instagram considers natural human behaviour.

The volume is deliberate. Push too hard, and Instagram throttles the account. Push too soft, and the growth isn't there. Five years of doing this has taught us where the line is — and we stay just inside it.

No browser extensions, no scripts, no third-party tools.

No engagement pods, no follow-for-follow circles, no comment spam.

Mariam
Mariam · Growth Manager
Logged in from our office · 5h 12m today
Today's activity on your account
  • Engaged with 63 accounts in your niche9:14 am
  • Left 12 targeted comments on relevant posts10:02 am
  • Followed 28 users matching your location filter11:41 am
  • Reviewed week's growth and refined targeting2:17 pm
Logged for every client, every day.
Step 05

The engagement triggers a notification. Curiosity does the rest.

Every time we like a post, leave a comment, or follow an account, that person gets a notification on their phone. A meaningful share of them tap through to see who you are. If your content resonates — your photos look good, your captions feel like you, your profile reads as someone they'd want in their feed — they follow.

This is the part nobody can fake. We can put your profile in front of exactly the right people, in exactly the right volume, every day. Whether they follow is up to your content. That's why our service works best when your profile already looks like something worth following — and why your Manager will spend the first week giving you content feedback if it doesn't.

300–500Typical new followers per month
2–3 daysUntil you see the first new followers from a fresh campaign
94%Of followers we deliver are real, active accounts

Real growth depends on content, targeting, and consistency. Faster results follow strong content; slower results follow content that needs work. Your Manager will tell you which one you have.

Step 06

Every week, smarter. Track it all on your dashboard.

The campaign isn't set-and-forget. Targeting gets sharper as we learn what's converting — and you can see exactly what's happening, in real time, whenever you want. When it's time to stop, we leave your account exactly as we found it.

Your dashboard

Watch your growth in real time.

Log in any time to see follower growth, the targets your Manager engaged today, what converted, and what didn't. Your Manager works against the same numbers — dropping underperforming targets and doubling down on what's working.

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Clean exit

We unfollow when you're done.

When you cancel — or when we hit the maximum following number you set at signup — we unfollow every account we followed on your behalf. We never touch the accounts you personally followed.

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The first 90 days

A realistic timeline.

We'd rather under-promise. Here's what most clients actually see.

Day 1

You meet your Growth Manager.

Strategy and targeting are agreed. Access is connected.

Days 2–7 · Warm-up

The account ramps up.

Your Manager starts with a low daily action count and increases it over the week. This is how we keep the account safe. First new followers usually arrive on day 2 or 3, but the pace is intentionally measured.

Month 1

Full daily volume.

Typically 300–500 net new followers, depending on niche and content. Your dashboard shows the daily breakdown of who engaged, who followed back, and which targets converted. Your Manager has refined targeting twice based on what's working.

Month 3

Compounding growth.

You'll have grown by roughly 1,000–1,500 relevant followers. By now, the algorithm is showing your content to a stronger audience by default, and your organic reach is compounding alongside the service.

A line in the sand

Things we'd never do to your account.

  • Buy followers.Not real ones, not “high-quality” ones, not any kind. Every follower you get is a real person who chose to follow.
  • Run bots or automation tools.Every action is performed by a human, on a phone, in our office.
  • Use engagement pods or follow-for-follow circles.That isn't growth, it's noise.
  • Mass-follow or mass-unfollow.We work within Instagram's daily action limits, every day.
  • Lock you into a contract.Subscriptions are monthly. Cancel any time.
  • Hide behind a ticketing system.You always know who's working on your account.
Common questions

About the process.

No. We log in from a single device in your region using a VPN, work within Instagram's daily action limits, and follow the same patterns a careful human would. We've done this for five years across 1,600+ active clients.

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