🚀 Growth Engine Pro (Full Walkthrough)

Growth Engine Pro runs your post-based Instagram engagement: Likes, Follows, Comments, and Unfollows on real audiences in your niche. It's separate from Wolf Engager Pro (which focuses on story interactions) — you can run both at once on the same account, or just one.

What it does

Open the Account Settings page → Targeting section. Pick your target type:

• Followers — engages followers of accounts you list (⭐ top pick)
• Likers — engages users who liked posts from accounts you list (⭐ top pick)
• Hashtags — engages users posting under specific tags
• Keywords / Keywords (Reels) — captions matching specific words
• Explore — Instagram's algorithmic feed
• Locations (Places) — users tagging specific places
• Self Timeline — your own audience for re-engagement

Recommended: Start with 30–50 username accounts under Followers or Likers. Use Target List to paste them in bulk.

Step 2 — Configure your actions

In Account Settings, you'll see toggles for each action:

Enable Likes

• Likes per day: 50 (new) → 100 (established)
• Toggle Like Timeline Posts if you also want to like posts from your home feed

Enable Follow

• Follows per day: 50 (new) → 100 (established)
• Mute followed users (None / All / Stories / Posts) — most customers pick All to keep their feed clean

Enable Unfollow

• Unfollows per day: match your Follow speed
• After N days: when to unfollow someone you followed (5–7 days is balanced)
• Skip Users Following You Back: ✅ ON (keep your real new audience)
• Smart Unfollow Trigger: optional — auto-triggers a cleanup when your following count crosses a threshold

Enable Comments

• Comments per day: 10 (new) → 20–30 (established)
• Add your comment templates with Spintax (see Spintax guide)
• Or set up AI comment generation (see Step 5)

Step 3 — Set Working Hours

Scroll to Working Hours → toggle ON. Pick the hours your audience is awake. The workflow only runs during those hours, which:

• Looks more natural to Instagram (real people don't engage 24/7)
• Reduces Activity Pauses dramatically
• Lets you manually use Instagram outside those hours without overlap

Recommended: 8 AM – 10 PM in your audience's primary timezone.

Step 4 — Set Audience Filters (optional but recommended)

Tighten audience quality with Audience Filters:

• Country Filter — whitelist or blacklist specific countries
• Verified Filter — skip verified accounts (or only target them)
• Gender Selection — male / female / unisex
• Language Filter — only engage accounts posting in your target languages
• Skip My Followers — don't waste actions on people who already follow you
• Skip Users Following You Back — for Unfollow (keep real audience)

Filters reduce speed slightly but significantly improve audience quality.

Step 5 — AI Comment Generation (advanced)

Growth Engine Pro can generate unique comments per post using OpenAI, DeepSeek, or xAI. Setup:

1. Get an API key from your chosen provider (OpenAI guide)
2. Open Comment Settings in Account Settings
3. Pick your AI provider + model
4. Paste your API key
5. Write a Prompt describing the comment style (e.g., "Write a short, friendly comment relevant to the post. Keep it under 80 characters. Match the post's tone.")
6. Toggle AI Comments ON

The AI reads each post's caption and generates a context-relevant comment automatically. Way more natural than static templates.

💡 Stick with gpt-5-mini  or deepseek-chat   as your model — they're cheap and good enough. Bigger models cost 3–5× more for marginal quality gain.

Step 6 — Auto-warmup for new accounts

If your Instagram account is under 7 days old, open Account Health & Limits → enable Auto-warmup. It scales your daily limits down for the first 7 days and ramps up automatically.

Step 7 — Activate the workflow

1. At the top of Account Settings, set Status → Active
2. Click Save Settings
3. The Smart workflow starts within 1–2 minutes

Confirm it's running by checking the Activity Log — you should see entries within a few minutes.

Campaigns vs. Account Settings

Growth Engine Pro has two levels:

• Account Settings — the default workflow for one Instagram account (everything above)
• Campaigns — separate strategies you can run on the same account (e.g., "follow-only morning campaign" + "comment-only evening campaign")

Most customers use just Account Settings. Campaigns are for advanced users running multiple strategies in parallel.

Recommended daily limits

Set up Wolf Alerts (Telegram notifications)

Get notified the moment something needs attention. See the Wolf Alerts setup guide — same setup as Wolf Engager Pro.

Source Tracking

Toggle Source Tracking ON in Account Settings → check the Stats tab a week later. You'll see which target sources actually produced followers and likes for you. Drop the underperformers, double down on what's working.

Common mistakes

• ❌ Running every action at full speed on a new account (use Auto-warmup)
• ❌ Same comment template for everyone (use Spintax with 8+ variations, or AI Comments)
• ❌ Running GEP + Wolf Engager Pro's post-Likes feature at the same time on one account (overlap)
• ❌ Skipping Working Hours — looks unnatural to Instagram
• ❌ Comments at 50/day on a new account — drop to 10/day

Need help?

Reach out to your Growth Team — we can review your GEP setup, recommend target accounts for your niche, and review AI comment prompts for quality.

Step 1 — Add your targets