Does AI even know your Instagram exists?
InstaCells AI Check measures whether AI answers cite or mention your Instagram brand, how much of what your posts claim also exists on the open web, and whether your caption, bio and website tell one story. InstaCells AI Report measures this across engines with stability and drafts web pages for your missing claims.
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- InstaCells AI CheckDoes AI even know your Instagram exists? See how often AI answers cite you, how much of what you say exists on the web, and what to fix first.InstaCells AI Check · 480 credits per scan
- InstaCells AI ReportMost AI answers cannot read Instagram. We map your web footprint, draft the pages that make you citable, and measure the change.InstaCells AI Report · 3,200 credits per scan
What are the three InstaCells AI Check pillars?
how often AI answers to your questions cite you (or at least mention you), sampled several times per question and engine, with a 95% confidence interval.
of the distinctive claims in your posts, the share that your website, the press, directories, Reddit, LinkedIn or YouTube also state, weighted by how central each claim is.
whether caption, bio, website and the picture description name the same product, place and promise.
What is the influence score?
Being cited is not the same as being used. For answers that cite you, the influence score measures how much of your page's wording, numbers and framing survives into the answer. Where you are not cited it is undefined, not zero.
What do the draft web pages contain?
For posts whose claims have little web presence and whose message is consistent, the InstaCells AI Report drafts a web page from the post's own claims: an FAQ page for facts, a how-to guide for steps, a comparison page for comparisons, each with structured data. It restates what you already said and adds no new facts; you review and publish.
Which InstaCells product answers which question?
| Product | Question it answers | What you get | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| InstaCells Check | How well does my account fit what Instagram rewards? | Score with range, every check, top fixes | About a minute |
| InstaCells Report | What holds my Instagram back, and what goes with higher engagement for me? | Branded PDF with 95% CI, competitors, fix plan | A few minutes |
| InstaCells AI Check | Do AI answers cite or mention my brand? | Score with 95% CI across three pillars, top fixes | A few minutes |
| InstaCells AI Report | How do I become citable by AI answers? | Branded PDF plus draft web pages | Several minutes |
What this measures, and what it does not
Instagram blocks most AI crawlers by default. This means most of the variation in AI citation is explained by what exists outside Instagram, not by optimising inside it. InstaCells measures both — your on-platform signals and your off-platform web footprint — and reports the association between them honestly. It does not claim that any single change will cause a specific increase in AI citations; that would need controlled experiments we have not yet run at scale.
Sources
- Google Search Central: AI features and your website — How content appears in Google's AI answers.
- RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol — The standard behind crawler access rules, which decide what AI crawlers may read.
- W3C: JSON-LD 1.1 — The structured data format the draft web pages use.
- Schema.org — The shared vocabulary for FAQ, how-to and article pages.
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Questions people ask
Which AI engines are sampled?
Google's AI answers by default, plus assistant engines such as ChatGPT in the InstaCells AI Report when they are available. Your report lists the engines used.
Why is my AI visibility low when my Instagram is popular?
Because most AI engines cannot read Instagram. Popularity on Instagram rarely reaches an AI answer unless the same information exists on pages AI can read.
Does the InstaCells AI Report publish pages for me?
No. It drafts the pages; you review, edit and publish them on your own site.