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How long until I see results?

Your first week of drafts is ready as soon as your accounts are connected and your plan is approved, and posts publish weekly from then on. On audience results, 73 of the first 101 Leanboat Studio brands grew their Instagram reach, at a median of +75% over a median of 67 days, each measured against the same length of time immediately before it started.

Two different questions

“How long until I see results” is usually asked as one question and is really two. When does the work start appearing? is about the service, and we can answer it precisely. When does my audience respond? is about your audience, and until recently we had nothing honest to say about it. Now we have 101 brands measured, so this page answers both, and is careful about how far the second answer travels.

When the work appears

ImmediatelyConnect your accounts and answer the six questions, and your brand file is built from your site and your existing posts.
Then the planYou approve what the month is about before anything is drafted.
Then every weekA week of posts, waiting for your approval, and published once you've given it. That cadence does not vary.

What we will not do is print a “day one to day eight” chart. We have run few enough brands from signup to first published post that the honest summary is a range too wide to be useful, and one of those runs needed us to step in by hand. A schedule published from that would be marketing, not information.

What we measured

On 14 September 2026 we measured account-level Instagram reach for every brand that had published through Leanboat Studio and had an account we could read. 112 qualified, 101 could be measured on both sides, 6 returned no insights at all, and 5 had been live too briefly to compare.

Each brand is measured against itself. Its window runs from its own first published post up to a cap of 89 days, and the comparison window is the same number of days immediately before it started. Equal lengths, so the two halves are comparable. The median window was 67 days, which is why this page describes roughly the first two months rather than a full quarter.

What happened in that window

73 of 101grew their account reach against their own before window.
+75% medianacross the 98 brands where a percentage exists. Three had no measurable reach at all beforehand, so there is nothing to divide by.
30 posts medianpublished per brand inside the window, 2,825 in total.

There is no combined reach total here on purpose. One account is more than half of everything the 101 gained, so a total would describe that operator rather than this service, and it swings by more than a hundred points depending on which outliers you drop. The median and the count of brands that grew stay within a few points under every cut we tested, so those are the ones worth printing.

Why the median is probably not your number

A median across 101 accounts hides the thing that matters most, which is how much reach you had before you started. Split the same 101 by that and the answer changes completely.

Already at 1,000+50 brands. 28 grew. Median +10%. This is the band most established operators are in, and it is close to a coin flip in the first two months.
Between 100 and 99924 brands. 18 grew. Median +99%.
Under 10027 brands. All 27 grew. Median +1,895%. These are accounts that had effectively stopped, and restarting one is the clearest gain available and a large part of what this is for. Going from 40 accounts reached to 800 is the real claim; the percentage is not how to say it.

The cohort is really two jobs, and the median sits between them. Half of these brands arrived already reaching a thousand people or more, and there growth is slow and hard-won: the honest expectation for the first two months is +10% at the median and a real chance of no growth at all, because what consistency buys in that band is a floor rather than a spike and the compounding shows up later than this window can see. A quarter arrived dormant, and there the first weeks are the dramatic ones, because an account that had stopped is the easiest large gain available and waking it up is a large part of what this service does. Read the band you are in. Neither is the other’s benchmark.

What these numbers are not

This is account-level reach, so it includes everything the operator posted themselves, not only what we drafted. It is also a comparison around a starting date, not a controlled trial. Brands choose to start at a moment when they have decided to take their account seriously, and that decision tends to come with other changes. Read it as what happened around the start, not as proof of cause.

Every brand above is measured individually, and the individual workings are published rather than summarised. You can read one at cases, including the before window, the post count, and the parts that did not move.

What we’ll publish when we can

A median time from signup to first published post, with the sample size next to it. A second measurement of the same brands at six months, which is the window that would actually answer whether the +10% band compounds. Both will appear on this page when the numbers exist, and the sample size will be printed whether it flatters us or not.

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Your first week of drafts is ready once your accounts are connected and your plan is approved, and posts publish weekly from then. On audience results, 73 of the first 101 brands grew their Instagram reach in their first weeks, at a median of +75% over a median of 67 days, each measured against the same length of time immediately before they started.

The cadence doesn't vary.

Every week, whether your week is calm or on fire.

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