Hook

Solutions · D2C brands

End the guessing meeting. Post what’s genuinely working.

Hook watches your niche daily, filters out boosted reach, and diagnoses why videos work. Then it drafts the next one in your voice.

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Ecosystem snapshot
24brands704posts analyzed17.8Kmedian views
Top performers
CClaude by Anthropic91.8Mccluely40.4MMMaverick Maltin29.3MMMatt Bitter14.3Mllilvb.unemployed14.1M
0:05
318.4x
Virality
i wonder how they feel
b@b.minh_ha
0:54
142.7x
Virality
Blue-collar workers don't get Notion or Loom
C@codewords_ai
0:53
96.2x
Virality
The biology behind coffee
J@jeans.scenes
0:07
88.5x
Virality
No coding skills, no problem
C@codewords_ai
0:12
73.9x
Virality
Aesthetic nerd life
e@epic_robs
1:04
61.0x
Virality
Every student struggling to find a job in 2026
C@codewords_ai
0:05
54.3x
Virality
New York City diaries
s@safiie.bulhak
1:48
47.8x
Virality
Day 123
a@alabaster
0:05
39.2x
Virality
Doesn't matter
C@codewords_ai
0:08
231.5x
Virality
POV: your AI agent ships the feature before standup
C@codewords_ai
1:12
118.9x
Virality
I let AI plan my entire week
M@maya.builds
0:31
204.1x
Virality
The 3-second hook that broke our retention record
N@northbound
Organic only · boosted filtered out
Checked against theMeta Ad Library
12.4× median · all organic
0 ad spend found · why it works attached

The weekly meeting

Posting weekly. Learning nothing.

Every active brand hits the same three walls.

The guess

“What are the hooks this week?”

The content meeting runs on vibes: someone saw a trend, someone has a feeling. Nobody can say why last week’s video died.

The drop

The algorithm didn’t change. Your category did.

The style that got millions now gets 2,000. That’s not a shadow ban. Your niche moved on, and nothing told you.

The decoy

The 2.1M “hit” you’re chasing was boosted.

You copy a competitor’s breakout and it flops. The Meta Ad Library knew: that reach was bought, not earned.

The organic filter

Copy the earned winners, not the media budgets.

The 2.1M “hit” you were about to copy was mostly bought: the same creative sits live in the Meta Ad Library, and the real organic number is closer to 170K. Hook runs that trace on every breakout before it ranks, so the format you copy is one your audience chose, not one a budget bought.

On Instagram · mobile
0.0M

What the feed shows. Reads like a runaway organic hit.

Traced + matched
Meta Ad Library · the matched ad
Library ID: 821494861055090
Active

Started running on 12 Mar 2026

Reach: 1.9M accounts

Platforms

This ad has multiple versionsi

HalftideSponsored

The 30 second routine your feed keeps asking about. Free shipping this week.

Halftide
halftide.comWith Natural Ingredients
~0.0M

Paid views bought. One creative match in the Ad Library, 98% copy.

Readjusted
~0Kviews
Real organic reach

Identical creative confirmed in the Ad Library. Bought, not earned.

Diagnosis to draft

From teardown to tomorrow's script.

Hook diagnoses every video it watches: hook type, pacing, the beat where retention died. Daily Ideas turn the week's patterns into tomorrow's brief, and the scriptwriter drafts it from your knowledge base, so the script sounds like your brand, not like a template.

northbound.co
AI Scriptwriter
Turn Northbound’s #1 format into a reel script.
Script intakePOV demo
What’s the core promise of the hook?
AThe thing nobody tells you
BFaster than the old way
CProof it actually works
DA myth worth busting
Select an option to continue →1 / 4
Ask anythingSonnet 4.6

AI Scriptwriter · drafts grounded in your knowledge base

Proof

A consumer brand's organic engine, torn down in public.

Vita Coco's recent videos, analyzed one by one for the formats, hooks and pacing that earned their reach, with Notion alongside for contrast. This is the map Hook builds for your niche.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

That's what the knowledge base is for. Upload brand guidelines, past scripts and briefs, and the scriptwriter grounds every draft in your voice plus the formats currently winning in your niche, not a generic template.

A creative-intelligence coworker in your Slack

Stop pasting TikTok links into ChatGPT.

You're doing the watching for a model that can't see video. Hook already watched your category, checked what was boosted, and drafts the next one in your Slack.