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Instant builds AI-powered tools to help build your business.

Instant Labs started in 2005 by building the fastest domain search engine on the internet: https://instantdomainsearch.com. People have performed over 2.5M searches and purchased 250K domains with our free tool. In 2023, we released Strobe, https://strobe.app, an AI-powered tool to help brands find creators to help them grow.
Instant Labs
Founded:2005
Team Size:1
Location:Victoria, Canada
   

Active Founders

Beau Hartshorne, Founder

Beau, a software developer, started Instant in 2005 to help businesses quickly get online. In 2006, he created Snipshot, an early online image editor. Beau then joined Facebook as an early employee, where he played key roles on the growth, photos, and mobile teams. He's released multiple patents including dynamically cropped images and techniques for handshake-free encrypted communication. Beau also wrote for Smashing Magazine.
Beau Hartshorne
Beau Hartshorne
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Dirkjan Ochtman, Founder

CTO at https://strobe.app/. 20 years of experience as a software engineer, Rust expert, accomplished open source maintainer. My main area of interest is high-performance, secure implementations of widely spread internet protocols such as TLS, HTTP, EPP, DNS, etc. See my GitHub profile at https://github.com/djc for more context.
Dirkjan Ochtman
Dirkjan Ochtman
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Company Launches

Strobe: Creator marketing for software companies

Hi everyone! We are Beau and Dirkjan, and we're here to present Strobe, an AI tool that helps you find proven influencers who already love your product.

Dirkjan is a rustls maintainer and built a fast open-source vector database in Rust before anyone knew they needed one. As an engineer on Facebook's growth and mobile teams, Beau helped rebuild Facebook twice, once on the web and again on iOS.

Book a call with Beau to learn how growth teams are working with influencers now.

Problem

Founders and growth teams tell us that while influencer marketing has a high ROI, it’s very hard to find and evaluate content partners at scale.

  1. Finding partners who really understand and care about their products is hard.
  2. Teams do not want to work with creators who post controversial content or are already working with their competitors. But it’s nearly impossible to review thousands of posts by scrolling.

Our solution

Strobe connects first-party social APIs with modern LLMs so you can quickly find and evaluate influencers in your community. We’re launching with Instagram and will soon roll out integrations with LinkedIn, YouTube, and other platforms.

  1. Strobe finds influencers in your social communities who already love your products. You can also import your existing customers to find influencers who already use your products.

  2. Strobe’s fine-tuned LLMs instantly review thousands of posts with dozens of GPUs to identify key performance metrics, topics, controversial topics, brand partnerships, and unlabeled sponsored content.

Our customers

Strobe helps growth and marketing teams at software companies find great content partners at scale. Here are two examples:

  1. A large public B2C software company with ~1M followers uses Strobe to segment and analyze their audiences, including customers, to find content partners for influencer marketing.
  2. A growth-stage B2B software company with ~75k followers uses Strobe for competitive research and to screen out creators who share content that does not represent their brand values.

Our ask

  1. Book a demo with Beau to see how Strobe can help your team
  2. If you have an Instagram professional account, sign up for a free trial at Strobe.app

Thank you!