Charlotte
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Content Engine · 530K Coach

I built the entire backend behind a 530K-follower strength and mobility coach.

Nine months directing the content engine, building the AI agents, and shipping the funnel infrastructure behind a verified 530K coach. 18.4 million views per quarter, two quizzes beating the industry benchmark, and a system that compounds month after month.

Client
Charlotte Hazelwood / Elevate
Niche
Strength & Mobility for Women
Duration
9 months, ongoing
Offer
Content Engine
The Problem

Personal brands at scale outgrow their delivery model long before they outgrow their audience.

A creator with hundreds of thousands of followers does not need more reach. What they need is the engine underneath the content. The AI tooling, the funnels, the email automation, and the strategic direction that turn a real audience into a real business without burning the creator out.

Who I Am

I'm Afaq, Growth Operator.

Afaq

I run strategy, AI, funnels, and full-stack systems for personal brands at scale. Marketing, AI, and engineering all live in the same head, which is why there are no agency layers between you and the actual work that ships.

I work three ways. Pick the model that fits your business.

Offer 01
Growth Operator
For founders or creators with audience and a product idea but no system to ship it. I own the build and take rev share, 20 to 40%, no cash up front. Selective.
Rev share · 20 to 40%
This Case Study
Offer 02
Content Engine
For personal brands, authors, and speakers who need strategy, content, AI agents, funnels, and backend handled by one operator. My team handles daily content production. Add-ons for AI, funnel builds, ads.
Starting at $2,900 / mo
Offer 03
Marketing & Backend Operator
For established business owners who want a fixed monthly retainer covering marketing consulting plus the entire backend stack, automation, and AI agents for ongoing tasks.
From $1,900 / mo + add-ons
The Starting Point

A 530K coach with reach to spare and no real backend.

Charlotte runs Elevate, a strength and mobility brand for women. By the time we started together she had a verified 530K following on Instagram, real demand, and clear content that resonated with her audience.

What she did not have was the system underneath. There was no quiz funnel capturing the inbound. No email logic nurturing it. No AI agents helping her research, plan, or move faster. And no one operator owning the whole thing.

I took the engagement on as the Content Engine operator. Strategy, AI, and the technical builds were mine. Daily content production was my team's, under my direction.

The client Instagram profile
@elevatewithcharlotte · 530K verified
What I Built

Nine months of strategy, AI builds, and the system underneath the content.

Strategy, AI tooling, funnels, and backend were owned by me directly. The content engine itself ran on my team, executing the brief I wrote each week.

Custom Claude agents
Claude Project · custom agents for research and strategy
Content calendar
Content calendar · strategic direction in motion
Klaviyo flow
Klaviyo · conditional nurture flows
ManyChat automation
ManyChat · IG running at 70.3% CTR

Two quizzes built and shipped by me. Klaviyo nurture flows wired up by me. ManyChat IG automations live by me. Zapier and Make routing the leads. Custom Claude AI agents I built for research, strategy, and decision support. The daily content engine itself runs on my team, executing the strategy and themes I set every week.

The Engine

Cold acquisition that compounded month after month.

The content engine kept doing the heavy lifting on its own. The strategy was mine, the execution ran on my team, and most of the views came from people meeting Charlotte for the first time rather than her existing followers.

Compound growth curve
18.4M
Views · 90 days · organic
7.9M
Accounts reached · +85.5%
711K
Interactions · 86.9% non-followers
71%
Views from non-followers

90 days running 18.4 million views with zero ad spend behind the organic content. Reach up 85.5%. Saves at 219K and shares at 79K, both heavy educational-signal metrics. The grid kept acquiring new audience month after month.

The Viral Wall

A grid that keeps acquiring new viewers every single day.

The content strategy I set was anchored on anti-fitness-industry truth-telling and mobility-first hooks. My team executed against that brief week after week, and the grid built itself into a self-acquiring engine.

Two quizzes · both beat the benchmark
Industry-standard typeform completion sits at 30 to 50%. Both of these cleared that on day one.

Quiz 01 launched into the existing audience. Quiz 02 launched into a new offer. Both shipped end to end by me.

Quiz 01 · Body Audit
What Does Your Body Need Right Now?
1,412
Starts
931
Completions
65.9%
Completion
Cleared the Typeform benchmark on day one. Captured leads at scale into a segmented Klaviyo system.
Quiz 02 · 7 Day Body Reset
What's Holding Your Body Back?
663
Leads in 48h
808
Total subs
76.6%
Completion
663 leads in the first 48 hours of launch. Completion rate nearly 2x the industry average.
Quiz 01 dashboard
Quiz 01 · Typeform dashboard
Quiz 02 launch
Quiz 02 · 663 leads in 48 hours
A Second Channel

Zero to 27.8K YouTube subscribers in roughly three months.

Same strategic direction, ported to long-form. The same hook patterns that worked on IG carried over almost directly. The channel went from a standing start to a real audience inside 90 days.

25.7M
Views · 365 days
27.8K
Subscribers · from zero
62K
Watch hours · 365 days
19.2M
Top short · single video
YouTube channel growth
YouTube · 365-day channel analytics
YouTube top shorts
Top shorts · 19.2M, 4.8M, and more
What She Gets

She runs the brand. The engine runs everything underneath it.

Nine months in, the engine is still running cold acquisition every month at the 8-figure view mark, the funnel is converting at completion rates double the industry standard, and the audience is still growing.

She does not set content strategy, manage Klaviyo sequences, build ManyChat flows, configure quiz logic, brief my team, or run weekly AI research. She shows up on camera, runs her business, and trusts the engine.

The funnel converts at completion rates double the industry standard. The grid keeps pulling new viewers. The AI agents keep producing research and strategy on demand. The system is built to keep compounding without her having to manage it.

This is not a project that ended. It is a partnership that compounds every month it runs.

The Offer

Content Engine, in detail.

This case study is what Content Engine looks like at the upper tier. The same structure scales down for smaller brands or scales up for larger campaigns.

Starting at
$2,900 / month

Base retainer, scoped to your needs. Add-ons cover one-time AI agent builds, funnel construction, and full ad campaign management when you launch.

Want this for your business?

Send me a message with what you have, what you need, and where you want it to go. I take a few of these at a time and I am selective about who I bring on.

What's Included
  • Content strategy and theme architecture
  • Daily content production by my team, you do not manage them
  • Custom AI agents for research, strategy, decision support
  • Funnel builds when you need to capture leads or sell something
  • Backend handling for websites, automation, integrations
  • Paid ad management during launches and campaigns
  • Direct client comms, every strategy call run by me