Argus reads every image, video and caption against Instagram's published Community Guidelines, names the clause it trips and what to change. Then it watches every account on your roster daily, in case something comes down anyway.
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| Account | Latest post | Posted | Views | Risk | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @velvet.rios | Reel | 6 days ago | 41,200 | Grey zone | No longer visible |
| @theo.grams | Reel | yesterday | 122,400 | Good | Trending |
| @sable.fox | Post | 9 days ago | 3,120 | Good | Quiet 9 days |
| @nova.kaye | Post | 2 days ago | 8,940 | Flag danger | Healthy |
| @juno.wilde | Reel | 3 hours ago | 1,880 | Good | Healthy |
| @mare.studio | Post | 4 days ago | 12,760 | Grey zone | Healthy |
Why agencies switch
Prevention is worth more than insurance — but you want both, because no screen catches everything. Each card says plainly whether it is running today or being built with our design partners.
Drop an image, a video or a caption in and get a verdict in seconds — in four bands, not a bare score.
Every verdict names the published guideline it fired on, with a link. Guidance you can check, not a magic 8-ball.
The thing no analytics tool does. A post leaves the grid and you know the same day — screening isn't perfect and neither is anyone's.
Every account sorted by what moved, what stalled and what went quiet — with the archive that outlives the post.
Argus Guard
A verdict you can argue with is a verdict you can trust. Each card names the guideline it fired on, links to it, and says what to change — so a chatter can fix the shot instead of binning it.
Clearly crosses a published Community Guideline. Removal is likely, and it may carry an account-level strike.
What you'd doDon't post it. If it's already up, take it down yourself — a self-delete doesn't carry the same account penalty as an enforcement action.
Likely to be limited rather than removed — demoted in Explore and Reels, age-gated, or made non-recommendable.
What you'd doPost it and expect roughly a third of usual reach, or edit and re-shoot.
Sits on the line. The outcome depends on enforcement mood, market and the account's history.
What you'd doYour judgement. The card shows exactly which signal is borderline, so it's your call rather than a black box.
Nothing detected against the current rule set. The rule set version is stamped on the verdict.
What you'd doPost it.
Screening ships to design partners first
The line we will not cross: Argus reports risk against Instagram's published guidelines, not a prediction of what Meta will enforce. Nobody outside Meta can predict that. You will never see a bare score with no reason attached, and Argus will never post or delete anything on your behalf.
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Paste any public handle. We'll read its visible post history and show you what we'd be watching.
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Compare
Most agencies are running either a per-profile analytics subscription or a person with a checklist. Usually both.
| Argus | Per-profile analytics tools | Checking by hand | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tells you a post is risky before it goes up | Before you publish | Never | A guess, if anyone looks |
| Names the guideline clause | On every verdict | Never | Only if someone has read them |
| Tells you a post disappeared | Within the hour | Never | Whenever someone notices |
| Cost for 80 accounts | $249 a month | $400–2,000 a month | 2h 40m a day of someone's time |
| Works on non-Business accounts | Yes, public tracking | No | Yes, slowly |
| History after a post is deleted | Kept | Gone | Only if screenshotted |
| Says which numbers are exact | On every figure | Rarely | n/a |
How it works
Paste handles or import a list. Business account owners can connect in one click for the full numbers.
About 5 minutesDrop the content in and get a band, the clause it trips and a suggested fix — in seconds, before a chatter hits post.
In buildPosts, views, likes, comments and followers recorded every check. Something comes down and you know by email or Telegram.
Within the hourWhat an alert looks like
Examples of the alerts agencies act on most. Not real accounts.
Queued post reads as sexually suggestive under the adult nudity and sexual activity guideline. Suggested fix: crop above the waistline or add a garment layer.
In build
A reel posted 6 days ago with 41,200 views is no longer visible. Last seen 22 minutes ago.
Sent to Telegram, 09:14
Yesterday's reel passed 122,400 views — 9× this account's usual first day.
Sent to Telegram, 07:02
Your data
Most tools quietly mix exact figures with estimates. Every number in Argus carries its badge, everywhere it appears.
The account owner clicks connect once. After that you see Instagram's own figures.
Works on any public account without asking the owner for anything. Enough to catch a problem, not exact.
Public tracking reads what anyone can see on the profile. Figures can lag, and a private or paused account leaves a visible gap in the record rather than a silent zero. We would rather show you the gap than a number we can't stand behind. Screened media is handled the same way: we keep the verdict, a hash and a blurred thumbnail, and discard the original.
Pricing
Every plan includes disappearance alerts, full history and unlimited team members. Bigger plans check more often and screen more.
15 accounts
Best for: a solo operator or a small page network.
14 days free · no card
50 accounts
Best for: an agency with a real roster and clients waiting on reports.
14 days free · cancel anytime
150 accounts
Best for: 80+ accounts, where an hour's delay costs real money.
14 days free · cancel anytime
400+ accounts
Best for: large networks that want the data in their own systems.
We'll scope it on a call
Screening allowances apply when Guard ships. Design partners keep their rate whatever happens to these prices.
Before you ask
Do the maths on it. Opening an account, scrolling the grid against yesterday's, noting what changed and logging it takes about two minutes if you are quick and not distracted. At eighty accounts that is two hours forty minutes, every day, before anyone has replied to a client. It costs more than every plan on this page combined, it is the first thing dropped on a busy Monday, and a person cannot screen a post against forty guideline clauses in the two seconds before a chatter hits publish. The check is not the hard part — doing it at the same standard on day two hundred is.
No, and be suspicious of anyone who says they can. Instagram's classifiers are proprietary, they change constantly, and the same post gets different outcomes in different markets and on accounts of different ages. What Argus reports is risk against the published rules: this image trips this clause of this guideline, here is the link, here is what to change. That is a claim we can stand behind. “This will be removed” is not.
Only if you want exact numbers. Public tracking needs nothing from them — paste the handle and it starts. Connecting a Business account takes one click by whoever owns it and unlocks reach, saves and story data.
No, and neither can anyone else from outside the account. Deleted by the creator, archived, taken down, or the account went private — all four look identical from where we stand. We tell you it's gone and when we last saw it. Why is a conversation with whoever runs the account.
No. If a check fails or comes back empty, Argus records a gap and waits. A post has to be missing across several independent healthy checks before it raises anything — which is exactly why you will not get a message claiming all four hundred posts vanished at once.
No. Argus watches Instagram, which is where the funnel lives. It's built for the agencies running OnlyFans models — the traffic side, not the platform itself. If your models' Instagram accounts are public, they work with no setup at all.
We keep the verdict, a perceptual hash and a blurred thumbnail. The original is discarded once screening finishes — it never sits on a disk waiting to be breached, and it shrinks what we would ever have to hand over or delete on request.
Public accounts backfill their visible history when you add them. Connected accounts start from the day they connect — Instagram doesn't hand over the past.
Yes, it's the next platform — same roster, same screening, same alerts. Tell us if that decides whether Argus is worth it to you and it moves up the list.
The first ten agencies get 50% off for twelve months, locked. In exchange we ask for a call every two weeks while we build, and for what actually happened to the posts you screen — the outcome data is how the bands get calibrated. Three spots are open.
Add your accounts free and leave it running for a week. If nothing disappears, you've lost nothing.