You already have the audience. The follow-up is what's leaking.
A comment becomes a public reply, a DM, a contact record and a follow-up, all inside one scenario.
Connect the Instagram account once and it becomes a channel. One channel carries as many funnels as you want, each with its own on/off switch, on the canvas that also runs your email.
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The comment, the reply, the DM and the list, in one place.
| You pay for | Same job, here |
|---|---|
| Comment-to-DM app | The comment trigger and the public reply are two nodes in one scenario. Reply variants are picked at random, and the reply does not burn the private-reply window. Triggers → |
| Story-reply tools | An Instagram story trigger: replies and @mentions. An empty keyword list matches any interaction, because a mention usually carries no text. |
| Link-in-bio | Real pages on your own domain, with forms, quizzes and checkout. Pages and forms → |
| Email tool | Email and chat as one campaign, with opens, clicks and unsubscribes in one place. Broadcasts → |
| A community with a rake | Spaces, self-awarding badges, points and a shop granting real access, with 0% of what it sells. Spaces → |
One funnel live before your next post goes out.
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0 to 20 min
Catch the comment
Add the comment trigger and pick its posts from a picker that browses your real feed, or leave it on all of them, future ones included. Keywords match on contains and ignore case, so “Guide please!!” matches guide.
Settings → Channels · Comment trigger -
20 to 45 min
Reply, then DM
A public reply picked from three variants, then the DM. Point the DM at a page, never at a raw file link because those expire in six hours.
Reply to comment · Send message -
45 to 70 min
Ask for the email
The DM asks; the answer writes itself into the contact field, with a retry limit and a branch for whoever ignores it. This is where a username becomes an address.
Ask contact for data -
70 to 90 min
Switch it on
A listener parks the run until a page visit or a purchase, with a timeout branch. Then flip the scenario on and watch its run counter move.
Listener node · Scenario runs
Story replies and @mentions run the same shape, without the public reply.
The DM the funnel sent, and the tags it wrote on the new contact.
pages_read_user_content and pages_manage_engagement), so build on Instagram now and treat Facebook comments as pending. Facebook has no stories API at all; nobody can automate FB stories, including us.
Or describe the funnel and read the graph back.
AXL's own AI needs no external agent. If you live in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, drive the same account from there.
Connect once, then paste the prompt
claude mcp add axl --transport http https://app.axl.tech/mcp
You, to your agentOn my two latest Instagram posts: when a comment contains “guide”, reply publicly with one of three variants, DM my lead-magnet page and tag them “ig-guide”. Show me the graph, switched off.
What a human still does
Authorise the Instagram channel yourself. That is a human OAuth flow, not something an agent can mint. Then flip the switch; sending to your audience stays a deliberate step. The guardrails →
What the funnel does while you film.
- •Every commenter becomes a contact carrying the phrase they used.
- •Sell to the list you just built without moving it to another tool.
What creators ask first.
No. That is a specific design decision. The reply publishes in the feed thread and leaves the one-shot private-reply window intact, so a send-message step still DMs the same person.
The action picks from several variants at random, and merge tags are applied after the pick, so the thread isn't one string repeated. Platform policy is still Meta's call.
Not yet. Facebook comment tracking and replies need two Meta permissions still in review. Instagram comments, story replies and @mentions work today; WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, LINE and SMS are unaffected.
Yes. A channel holds many scenarios, each with its own switch and counters, so a launch funnel and an evergreen funnel don't collide.
Meta gives you a 24-hour window on the DM thread. Some updates qualify for a message tag; everything else falls down the channel list to email, which is why the third setup step asks for it. Broadcasts →
Connect Instagram and build your first comment funnel.
Start with one post and see what happens when the follow-up stops leaking.
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