DM agent
An AI agent that answers every kind of message in your DMs.
The DM agent is an AI assistant that answers messages in your Instagram inbox: questions, photos, voice notes, shared reels, story replies and mentions. It answers in the voice you describe and sells only from your catalogue.
Create an agent
- Open Agent from the menu and choose New agent.
- Write its instruction: who you are, what you sell, how to talk. Start from a template, or use Improve with AI to tighten what you wrote.
- Choose how it treats each kind of message (below).
- Test it in the chat on the right, then activate it. One agent can be active per Instagram account.
Kinds of messages
For each kind of message you choose a policy: the AI answers, a fixed reply is sent, or it is ignored.
Kinds include text, photos, voice notes (transcribed first), videos, files, shared posts and reels, story replies, story mentions, reactions and likes.
Actions
The agent can end a reply with an action, for example handing the conversation to a person. When it hands over, you get an email and the conversation is marked for a human until you hand it back.
Your catalogue
Open Catalogue to add products, services and offers. The agent only recommends what's in this list, so it never invents an offer.
Conversations
The Conversations panel lists everyone the agent is talking to. You can take a conversation over yourself or give it back to the agent at any time.
How it fits with funnels
Taps on funnel buttons and typed answers to them go to the funnel first. Everything else in the inbox, including messages that have nothing to do with a comment, goes to the active agent.
Note
You can build and test an agent on any plan. Live AI replies need the AI Pro plan on that Instagram account; the Agent page shows an upgrade button until then. If the AI allowance runs out, the agent pauses, but keyword replies, funnels and workflows carry on.
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