You've connected your Instagram account and the Scenarios page is empty. This is the moment where most accounts get their first result within an hour. Below are the five automations that do the most for a new account, in the order most people build them. Pick one and follow its guide.
1. Turn comments into conversations
The classic first scenario. Someone comments a keyword on your post, Inrō replies with a DM containing your link, and the person becomes a contact you can message again. It works on any post, reel or Live.
Build it with Comment-to-DM: Turn Comments Into Customers. If you've never built a scenario, start with Quick Start: Your First Scenario.
2. Answer story replies automatically
People who reply to your stories are already talking to you. A story-reply scenario answers them instantly, sends a link or asks a question, and works whether they replied to any story or to one specific story. See the story-reply section of Triggers: The Complete Reference.
3. Let your AI Agent handle the questions
Once contacts start arriving, the AI Agent can answer the repetitive questions in your DMs, in your voice, from your own knowledge base. It runs alongside your scenarios and hands over to you when someone asks for a human. Set it up in Quick Start: Setup Your AI Agent.
4. Send your first campaign
A campaign is a DM you send to a group of contacts on your schedule, for a launch, an offer or a reminder. It is the way to go back to the people your scenarios collected. Follow Quick Start: Your First DM Campaign.
5. Capture leads with a freebie
Offer something useful, a checklist, a discount or a guide, in exchange for a comment or a reply. The scenario delivers it and saves the email address to the contact. The full playbook is Lead Generation with Freebies & Gated Content.
Two shortcuts
Start from a template. The template library has ready-made scenarios for each of the plays above. Clone one and change the wording. See Templates: Browse, Clone & Share Scenarios.
Describe it to AI. Type what you want in plain language and Inrō builds the scenario for you, triggers and branches included. See Generate scenarios from a text prompt using AI.
🐾 Netsuke's Tips
Build one scenario and get it firing before you build five. A working comment-to-DM teaches you more than any guide.
Test every scenario with the test code before you activate it. You'll see exactly what a contact sees.
Add contacts to a folder in every flow. Folders are what make campaigns and the AI Agent useful later.
Not sure which play fits your business? Welcome to Inrō: What You Can Do walks through it by goal.