PHASE 3 · CHANNEL AGENT BRIEF · 05

IG Stories + Reels Agent

The awareness + retargeting agent. Owns 15% of daily spend. Primary cohort: Sarah 35–42 on Reels-prime time + Jane 42–52 on retargeting. Format: 15–30 sec UGC vertical · "mirror confession" · "before-and-after-but-honest" · "scroll-stop-stat".

SURFACE · IG STORIES · IG REELS ICP · SARAH 70% · JANE 25% · MEI 5% SPEND SHARE · 15% OF TOTAL FORMAT · 9:16 VERTICAL · 15–30 SEC

01Agent identityrole · scope · success metric

ROLE

Awareness + retargeting funnel

Top-of-funnel attention capture (Reels) + retargeting Meta-feed visitors (Stories). Hand-off to LP for long-form.

DAILY BUDGET

15% of total daily spend

At $1K/day total → $150 IG. Reels $100 · Stories retarget $50. CBO not ABO — let algo allocate.

SUCCESS METRIC

CTR > 1.4% · CPM < $14

Stories retarget conversion > 3.2% from Meta-feed audience. 3-sec view-through > 22% on Reels.

026 micro-formats that win on Reels15–30 sec UGC-style

FORMAT A · MIRROR-CONFESSION

"I thought it was X, it's Y"

Beat 1 (0–3s): Woman in bathroom mirror, no makeup, soft light. Direct camera.

Beat 2 (3–10s): "I thought my hair was just thinning because I'm 43. It's not. It's estrogen-drop DHT."

Beat 3 (10–22s): Product reveal on counter. Specific ingredient claim. Specific dose.

Beat 4 (22–30s): "Three weeks. The shedding stopped. Link in bio."

Best ICP: Sarah (hair · peri symptom). Hook to clone: Try Bloom & Bond.

FORMAT B · DRAIN-CLOG REVEAL

"This was 6 weeks of shedding"

Beat 1 (0–3s): Hands lifting hair-clog from shower drain to camera. Single cut. No filter.

Beat 2 (3–8s): "This is what 6 weeks looked like."

Beat 3 (8–22s): "Then I tried [ingredient + dose]. This is what month 3 looks like." Brush-pull on clean hair · minimal shed.

Beat 4 (22–30s): Product on bathroom shelf. Caption-overlay: "90-day MBG. Link in bio."

Best ICP: Sarah · Jane. Hook to clone: Balmbare GLP-1 Hair.

FORMAT C · 2AM-BRAIN-RACE

"It's 2:14am. My brain won't stop."

Beat 1 (0–3s): Bedside clock. 2:14am. Phone-screen glow on face.

Beat 2 (3–10s): Voiceover: "Every night for two months. Tired in the morning. Wired at 2am."

Beat 3 (10–22s): Magnesium glycinate + L-Theanine bottle pickup. "It's not melatonin. It's deeper."

Beat 4 (22–30s): Cut to clean morning + coffee. "Three weeks in. Sleeping through. Link in bio."

Best ICP: Jane · Mei. Hook to clone: TryVivah LullaBites · Lyra Sleep.

FORMAT D · "I YELLED AT MY KIDS"

Mom-burnout confession

Beat 1 (0–3s): Car interior, daytime. Mom in driver-seat camera angle. "I just yelled at my kids over a spilled juice box."

Beat 2 (3–14s): "It's not them. It's cortisol stuck high for 3 years. Saffron is the most clinically-studied plant for this exact problem."

Beat 3 (14–25s): Bottle reveal at coffee shop counter. "30mg. The dose the trials actually use."

Beat 4 (25–30s): Mom + kids laughing later. "10 days in. I have my patience back."

Best ICP: Sarah only. Hook to clone: Naali "T'es pas une mauvaise mère" — translate to English.

FORMAT E · SHELF-SWEEP

"Everything I tried for menopause hair"

Beat 1 (0–3s): Tight shot on cluttered bathroom counter. 6+ failed products visible.

Beat 2 (3–18s): Hand picking up each: "Biotin. Nothing. Collagen. Nothing. Rosemary oil. Nothing. Nutrafol — $80/month. Nothing." Sweep them into trash.

Beat 3 (18–25s): Single bottle remains. "Then I tried this. Lustriva® — 40x more bioavailable than biotin. Three weeks."

Beat 4 (25–30s): Brush pull. Clean. "90-day MBG. Bio link."

Best ICP: Jane. Hook to clone: LookHoudini "$9.95 Nutrafol Replacement".

FORMAT F · SCROLL-STOP STAT

"30mg vs. 5mg"

Beat 1 (0–4s): Big-text overlay on black: "30 mg" on left · "5 mg" on right.

Beat 2 (4–12s): "The dose your saffron supplement actually contains: 5mg. The dose the clinical trial used: 30mg. Now you know."

Beat 3 (12–22s): Bottle reveal. "We dose at 30. Like the studies."

Beat 4 (22–30s): CTA: "Link in bio. €24.90. 90-day MBG."

Best ICP: Jane (research-y) · Mei (label-reader). Hook to clone: Naali clinical-dose variant.

03Stories format · retargeting onlyno cold traffic on Stories

Stories ads convert 3-5x higher when retargeting Meta-feed visitors than when shown cold. Use Stories as the closer · not the opener.

STORY TYPE A · SOCIAL PROOF

3-frame review carousel

F1: 5-star review screencap from Trustpilot · woman's first name + age.

F2: Product on her bathroom counter (real-life, not studio).

F3: "Join 35,000+ women · 90-day MBG · Swipe up."

STORY TYPE B · DOSE COMPARISON

"What you're really getting"

F1: "Most saffron gummies: 5mg" · sad-face emoji.

F2: "Clinical trials use: 30mg" · arrows pointing up.

F3: "We dose like the trials. Swipe up."

STORY TYPE C · "STILL THINKING ABOUT IT?"

Soft-retarget direct frame

F1: Plain-color background. "Still thinking about it?"

F2: "Your hair shedding won't fix itself."

F3: "30% off your first bottle today. Swipe up."

04Production spechow Forger agent builds these

ElementSpecTool / how
Aspect1080 × 1920 · 9:16Veo3 / Kling / CapCut export
Length15–22 sec for Reels · 6 sec / frame for StoriesHard cut every 3 sec to keep retention
CaptionsBurned-in · Geist Bold · 84pt · drop-shadowiOS Captions / SubtitleApp · NO IG auto-captions
MusicTrending audio <48hr · low BPM 80-100 for confession formatsIG Reels audio explorer · pull weekly
TalentUGC creator 32-48yo · "looks-like-the-buyer" not influencerBackStage · Insense · TrendHero
Hands-onTight shot of hand picking up bottle — every videoForger AI b-roll if no real footage
Hard banNo watermarks · no logos in first 3s · no "AD" disclosure visibleQA agent flags

05Cadence + kill/scaleweekly rhythm

WEEKLY OUTPUT

6 Reels + 3 Stories sets / week

Per ICP × per week: 2 Reels (1 new format · 1 winner-rotation) + 1 Stories 3-frame set.

Total weekly: 6 Reels videos + 9 Stories frames. Forger generates · QA reviews · Pixel launches.

KILL · SCALE

3-day-thumb-stop rule

Kill3-sec view-through < 12% for 3 days
HoldVT 12–22% · keep 5 days
Scale 3xVT > 22% AND CPA < $25 for 4 days
Re-cutVT > 22% AND CPA > $30 = re-cut hook · keep middle