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DIY media brand — agent-written features and carousels instead of paid press

angus.sewell · 2026-07-23T14:00:20.000Z · in AI Saves, Vol. 8
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100k ft — What is this?

DIY media brand — agent-written features and carousels instead of paid press
techniqueC-tier

50k ft — Why care?

Instead of paying for 'as seen on Forbes' features, have an agent DM influencers offering features, rewrite their top posts into articles with a humanizer repo, then turn articles into Instagram carousels with a carousel-generator repo and pitch collabs. Repo names and prompts are comment-gated.
agentsbrandingmarketingopen sourceprompt engineering

10k ft — Key takeaways

• Paid press features are a pay-to-play product • Repurpose one strong post into article plus carousel

5k ft — Tools & techniques

(no tools tagged) AI agents, AI humanizing, content repurposing

1k ft — Deep-dive / try it

I got you with the prompts btw just comment “prompts” and I’ll send them your way #ai #buildwithai #vibecoding
Transcript excerpt
Forbes just bamboozled all of us. You ever seen an Instagram account that looks like this? Says like, as seen on Forbes. You wonder, how did this guy get into Forbes? He paid the money. That's how Forbes makes $300 million a year. Welcome back to, wait, can we just build this ourselves? Spin up a series of social media accounts. Find a bunch of influencers that you think are cool on one of these platforms. Then DM them being like, yo, I got like a blog and shit. Let me give you a feature. And yeah, you could just have an AI agent do all that. It's like, give me this prompt or something. Eventually somebody will be like, sure buddy, that's fine. Wait, don't be like Forbes in charge of the money. That's so cringe. Instead, take one of these writing humanizer GitHub repositories and choose one of the influencers high-performing posts. Give your AI agent this prompt. It will take that top post and write it as a humanized article. Now install one of these repositories that specialize in creating Instagram carousels. Next prompt, it will create a series of Instagram carousels based on the article. Angus AI is so bad at making content. How do I make it good? Haven't figured that part out yet. I'm sorry, bro. Now you have your article and your carousels. Give those puppies a pose. Try to get the influencer to like, collab with you on the post. They'll probably reject you, but worth a try. And then just keep doing that over and over and over until you're big enough to land brand…

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Collection: AI Saves, Vol. 8