A post goes viral overnight and the comments sit unanswered until noon.
By the time you reach the "how much?" comment, the buyer already scrolled on. We put an AI on every post that answers from your knowledge base, catches the buying words, and pulls that person into your DMs and your CRM while intent is still hot.
Knowledge-base driven
answers, not canned templates
One flow
comment to DM to CRM
You approve
every reply and trigger
How a single comment becomes a tracked lead, end to end.
Comment lands
Someone replies on your post or reel
AI reads intent
Matches question to knowledge base
Public reply posts
On-brand answer under the comment
Keyword fires DM
Trigger words open a private thread
Lead hits CRM
Contact and tag land in GHL
The Problem
Where Instagram comments quietly leak revenue
The highest-intent comments ("price?", "link?", "does it work for X?") arrive when nobody is watching the account.
Every buyer you answer manually is a buyer a competitor answered faster, and Instagram rewards the reply that came first.
Comments live and die inside Instagram, so even the ones you do answer never make it into a CRM you can follow up from.
Comment tools versus OS.1 comment automation
Common pattern across the SMB and agency accounts we onboard
What You've Already Tried
How teams handle comments today
Manual replies depend on someone being awake, online, and fast enough to beat the scroll.
Generic auto-reply apps post the same canned line to everyone and cannot answer a real question.
Nothing connects the comment to a contact record, so follow-up is guesswork or nonexistent.
Speed and quality of the first reply
Meta keeps widening what automated accounts can do inside comments and DMs
Comment to DM
the handoff Meta explicitly supports
Meta's own Messenger and Instagram messaging APIs are built for exactly this handoff: a public comment triggers a private message, and the conversation moves into a system you own. The accounts winning attention are the ones treating comments as an inbox, not a vanity metric.
Meta Platforms messaging API documentation ยท 2026
What We Build
What we actually build for your account
OS.1: the automation engine
OS.1 is our own tool for Meta and text automation. It connects to your Instagram, watches posts in real time, classifies comment intent, and decides whether to reply publicly, open a DM, or both. It is the layer that makes replies feel written rather than canned.
GoHighLevel: the CRM and workflow layer
OS.1 plugs into GoHighLevel as the system of record. When a keyword fires, the commenter becomes a tagged contact and drops into the GHL workflows you already run, so speed-to-lead, nurture, and booking all continue outside Instagram.
How we build and tune it
We build the intent logic and reply generation with Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT Codex, then tune the knowledge base against your real comment history. You review the answers before anything goes live, and we adjust triggers as your offers and campaigns change.
Results
Why this holds up in a real account
Knowledge-base driven
answers, not canned templates
Replies are generated from your knowledge base, not a fixed template, so a "does this work for gyms?" comment gets a real answer instead of a generic thanks.
One flow
comment to DM to CRM
The comment-to-DM-to-CRM path is one continuous flow, so a hot commenter never falls out between Instagram and your follow-up system.
You approve
every reply and trigger
You keep full control: you define the triggers, approve the knowledge base, and can pause or edit any behavior without touching code.
FAQ
Questions we get asked.
Official APIs
built on Meta's messaging platform, not scraping
Stop losing revenue to
an unanswered phone.
We map your posts, buying keywords, and GHL workflows, then stand up OS.1 comment automation done-for-you. You approve every reply before it goes live.
Or email aditya@tryagentikai.com