Automate Instagram Growth with AI — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:01] to learn how to automate your growth on Instagram using Chat GPT and Claude. page up to both of these in order to create content, find viral trends, figure out what you're doing wrong, and so much more. So, let's dive into

[00:14] exactly how to do this. Okay, so here's exactly how that you're going to set this up. What you want to do is you need to begin to use VidIQ's MCP server actually connect your Instagram to Claude, which is pretty incredible. The

[00:27] going to log into VidIQ right here. We're going to come over here. You're going to click on account settings, and then you're going to see MCP right here. you need to do right here. Basically, you need to generate your API key above.

[00:41] key. We're going to go into Claude, and I'm going to actually show you what this looks like. We're going to come over into Claude right here, and then we're to click on connectors. We're going to click on this plus. We're going to click

[00:54] add custom connector. We want to name this VidIQ. Then, we are going to grab this URL right here. We're going to put this in here. Under advanced settings, client auth, this is where you might actually have to generate your API key.

[01:07] come over here. We're going to click on add, and then this is actually going to prompt us to verify our VidIQ. And what that is going to do is hook Instagram up to Claude. As simple as that. If you don't already have the VidIQ MCP, you

[01:22] could go to the pin comment below to get started with it today. Now, if we come going to be able to do is if we click right here, we can see accounts. If we click on add, we can now connect this to our Instagram account. So, I'm going to

[01:34] AI Guy. Then, we can see that we can actually go through and connect this to incredibly easy for us to be able to do over to Claude that we're all connected, and we could say something like, "Are

[01:49] you connected to the VidIQ MCP, and can you see my Instagram account. What things can we do with the MCP and

[02:03] What things can we do with the MCP and give me examples of prompts we should use with it. Now, what this is actually going to do is this is going to confirm everything's connected. We can see that this is connected to my Instagram and

[02:16] then this confirms that it is connected to my Instagram account. We can actually come over here. This is showing us what it could do for YouTube, but then at the this can also do for Instagram. The way that I phrase this, it got this to go

[02:29] have four tools right here. We could do VidIQ IQ profile, VidIQ IG profile VidIQ IQ profile, VidIQ IG profile reels, VidIQ IG outlier reel search, and then also reels watch. So, what can this do? This can do things like we could

[02:45] come over here and pull somebody's page, find their top X reels, watch the top performers, and break down exactly why they actually work. Or we could get it to review our page and so many other things. In fact, there are three things

[02:59] strongly suggest that you set up. But first, I wanted to show you how you can things. So, what you're going to want to do is you are going to want to get the Claude desktop app right here. You can only do this from the desktop app cuz

[03:11] actually have the desktop app, you can come over here to co-work and this is out. So, we could come over here into new task. We could click on set up manually and we could do something like find outliers on VidIQ we can actually

[03:28] put a description right here and then this is simply where you're going to put this is actually going to use. If you want to work in a project, you could do it's going to ask before acting or act without asking. I would strongly suggest

[03:42] you could choose the frequency at which this automation is actually going to would strongly suggest that you use. The first one is going to be using the VidIQ Instagram integration. Please find outlier videos in the AI news, Gemini

[03:57] AI, ChatGPT, and Claude niche. Now, what this is going to do is this is actually going to use VidIQ's MCP, and this is going to load this up with the outlier real search, and this is going to go through and run parallel functions for

[04:11] pull trends for all of these different set this up with Co-work, we could have this happen every hour, every day, every week, at whatever cadence you want it to happen. And then this is what this looks

[04:25] like. This is literally going through, this is running this, and this is going outliers. Now, if you're wondering what an outlier is, it's a video that performed better than that page's average views. So, basically, it's going

[04:38] pages in your niche. It is going to their average video, and then you're going to get shown those. So, this is now going through, and this is giving us our AI niche outlier report right here.

[04:51] goes through the niche, goes through the concept, goes through the views, goes through the RMS, and gives us the length of the video. And what this is actually going to give us right here is a very good breakdown of exactly what is

[05:05] working right here. What hooks are working so that we can understand what and what we should be posting about every day. Now, the second prompt I something like this. Using the VidIQ Instagram integration, look at this page

[05:20] him because I'm in the same niche and I want to create content like him. Now, what this is going to do is this is going to use VidIQ's MCP integration. It is actually going to look at the page. It's going to pull all the

[05:33] different reels in parallel, and then it is going to tell us exactly what is working for him so that we have a good understanding of what we could be doing differently. So, this will allow you to find competitors in your niche. It will

[05:46] niche. Okay, so now this is actually page. In addition to that, this is also going to pull what is actually broadly working inside of this niche by looking at outliers. And now it's going through

[05:58] exactly what works for him with a snapshot here. So we have his own top performers. Gives us the topic, the plays, the comments, the hook type, and then what actually drives his wins. This actually looked at the post and sees

[06:10] what he's doing. So we can see that when he uses named recognizable cards, it beats a generic credit talk. In addition to that, expiring benefits and urgency like banks don't want you to know where insider framing works really good. In

[06:24] addition to that, we could see that he's using specific keyword call to actions using many chat in order to really drive his growth right here. And then it also goes through where he's leaving reach on the table because of niche-wide

[06:37] patterns. So this went through and actually gives us a playbook of exactly what our next 10 posts should be, the format, the hook, the call to action, the length, the cadence, and next steps that we can run. And that last prompt I

[06:50] wanted to show you a use case is, can you please analyze my Instagram page and the posts from the last 7 days using VidIQ and tell me what I should improve through and do this. And again, I really want to emphasize you should schedule

[07:02] out each of these as tasks because this will help you find exactly what is trending in your niche, exactly how to break down those other competitors. And then also, you'll get a weekly update of everything that you're doing wrong and

[07:14] how you can improve. Now we can see that this is actually going through, pulled It is watching all those different up a report of exactly what I need to fix. Now we can see that this went

[07:27] through and did this. It pulls my reels, pulls the views, pulls the likes, and it tells me exactly what I need to do. And basically tells me that I'm doing pretty poorly right now on Instagram because of all these different things that are

[07:39] hurting me right here. And it gives me what changes I should make, what's working, what shouldn't change, and what kind of tests I should run this week. if I scroll back on my page a little bit, I was posting a lot better a few

[07:53] been slacking cuz I've been moving as you guys can tell by the change in me exactly what I need to change to get back on top of it and it could do the same thing for you. Now before I show you how to use ChatGPT with your

[08:07] that you could go to the pin comment below and get started with vidiQ today. vidiQ is going to allow you to hook your Instagram up to both Claude and ChatGPT tool like this in order to grow and spend less time creating content right

[08:22] 2026. In fact, they literally just launched this last week and creators skyrocketing their growth and you could get started with it today for only $1. opportunity. Go to the pin comment below and be one of the first people to have

[08:37] grow faster. Okay, so now if you actually don't want to use Claude, you could actually use this right inside of vidiQ right here and this is essentially you to do a bunch of different things. For example, if we click on this plus

[08:51] right here, we can upload documents, we can upload videos, we can upload images, or we can just chat with this about what we actually want it to do. For example, actually go over here and tell us what video should I make next to go viral or

[09:04] we could actually check out and then we can see right here this is going through. This is thinking. This is accessing basically the same exact vidiQ MCP or at least the same technology in order to give us an answer. And this is

[09:17] going to go through. This is going to get our Instagram profile, get our load the real research skill, it's going to load the Instagram hook idea skill, it's going to load up my reels and tell me exactly what I should be creating

[09:32] based on what it actually finds. And now while that's doing that, what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to open up a new chat right here, and I'm here. I want it to go through and analyze my recent reel and give me a

[09:46] comprehensive audit of what I should change based on what is working for outliers in my niche. Then again, we could go ahead and get this running, and while that's running, I'm going to open up another page right here, and I'm

[10:00] going to say something like, "I am making a video about Google I/O's latest announcements. Please find outliers for this,

[10:12] Please find outliers for this, determine what length I should make my determine what length I should make my video, what topic, what hook, and write me a script for it based on what is working in my niche." And now, what this

[10:26] is actually going to do is it is going to complete all of this. This right here is an agentic task. It's going to figure out what I should make, what hook, what script, all of that jazz. When we click right here, this is now going to run off

[10:39] could actually have this working and firing on multiple different things at one time, which is pretty awesome. So, now we could see that this actually goes three biggest opportunities right now. The first one is going to be, "I gave

[10:52] Claude full control of my business for a week." Goes through why it should actually works, gives me my angle. The next one, "The one prompt that replaces five of your AI subscriptions." Again, tells me exactly why this works, gives

[11:05] me my angle. And then, "Claude just dropped this right here." Tells me why it works, and goes through the angle. So, this literally just handled my research for me. Now, for this next task of actually analyzing things, we could

[11:17] here, loaded up all my different reels, watched my different reels, found here. Now, it's going through and pulling outlier benchmarks, and then this is actually going to write me a report. And honestly, what might be more

[11:31] powerful than the answer that this gives me is I can actually go through all of the thinking right here behind key data points of my page of different outliers right here and actually go through what it found, how it's actually thinking

[11:44] about this because I think you actually learn more from how this AI is actually thinking about your page versus other page versus the actual audit that it gives you. And if we come over to this right here, this actually goes through

[11:56] everything that it's thinking about for this also. So, it goes through my format right here, goes through my performance, goes through the announcements, goes and then this goes through the Gemini app. This actually goes through and

[12:09] looks for what's actually resonating with the audience and tells me everything that I need to know in order to create a really good post on this topic. Okay, so now this has actually gone through and this tells me exactly

[12:22] what I should be doing based on the data, based on gaps and outliers. This goes through all of this information, what is actually working for me right now, what my priority should be, and this is incredible. Then also, for my

[12:35] request about this Google post right here, this gives me the topic, gives me the length, it tells me why, gives me the hook, gives me my script right here, this is incredible. If I want to change it in any way, I'm more than happy to do

[12:49] that, but otherwise, this is going to make it way easier to grow on Instagram. want to learn how to go viral every single time you post on Instagram Reels check out this video right here that's a tutorial on exactly how to do that. If

[13:03] that sounds interesting, I'll see you over there.