# Real run: AI founders on Instagram

This is a preserved local Jev Social run from September 18, 2026. The goal was `find ai founders on instagram`. Jev selected two searches and one post-detail read; socai captured four previewable records in **63.969 seconds**. This audited public version keeps the run structure and generalized observations, uses opaque evidence IDs, and separates the one opened post from three search-result cards.

Runtime depends on the live site, browser session, selected operations, and network. This is one recorded run, not a benchmark or a representative sample.

## Preserved research contract

| Field | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Goal | `find ai founders on instagram` |
| Platform | Instagram |
| Run date | 2026-09-18 |
| Search queries | `AI founder`; `AI startup founder` |
| Browser operations | Two searches; one post-detail read |
| Captured records | Four unique source URLs |
| Evidence depth | One opened post; three discovery cards |
| Elapsed time | 63.969 seconds |

The historical artifact retained the run date and query set, but the exact capture timestamp and record-to-query mapping were not retained. It also did not preserve predeclared inclusion or exclusion rules, the final stopping rationale, or a deduplication log. The provider and model identity were not retained in this public artifact, so provider-side storage and retention for this run cannot be reconstructed.

## Executive summary

The run captured four Instagram result cards with previewable image or video assets. Only E01 was opened for post details. It shows one third-party business-story account framing an AI founder story around execution, valuation, and personal outcomes. Post date and engagement fields were captured locally but are omitted from this public copy to avoid republishing account-level social data.

Only E01 supports an inspected-post observation. E02–E04 are discovery hypotheses, not findings: their card text suggests possible acquisition, ethics, and young-founder angles, but no post detail, comment text, or media content was inspected for those records. This sample therefore cannot establish a dominant theme, audience reaction, or prevalence across Instagram.

## Evidence ledger

| ID | Restricted source reference | Evidence state | What was actually observed | What was not captured |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| E01 | Withheld from public copy | `opened-post` | The opened post described an AI coding-platform co-founder and framed the story around coding, execution, belief, valuation, and personal outcomes. Post date, engagement fields, and comment-count metadata were captured locally. | No individual comment or reply text was captured; the author's claims were not independently verified. |
| E02 | Withheld from public copy | `discovery-only` | Captured search-card text described a solo app-builder founder and included user, profit, acquisition, and team-size claims. | The post was not opened. Author identity, publication date, full caption, engagement, comments, media, and attribution were not verified. |
| E03 | Withheld from public copy | `discovery-only` | Captured search-card text described an AI-lab leader and mentioned ethics, transparency, human-centered AI, and a valuation claim. | The post was not opened. Author identity, publication date, full caption, engagement, comments, media, and valuation were not verified. |
| E04 | Withheld from public copy | `discovery-only` | Captured search-card text described a youth-founder claim, AI/no-code workflows, and cross-age hiring. | The post was not opened. Author identity, publication date, full caption, engagement, comments, media, and attribution were not verified. |

## Claim-to-evidence matrix

| Candidate conclusion | Supporting records | Counterevidence | Coverage boundary | Confidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| One inspected third-party post used execution and outcome framing for an AI founder story. | E01 | None captured | One opened Instagram post; no comment text | Low outside this record |
| The searches may surface acquisition, ethics, and young-founder narratives worth inspecting next. | E02, E03, E04 | Not searched | Discovery cards only; no post bodies or media inspected | Not assessable as a finding |
| Instagram discussion broadly favors founder-success storytelling. | None sufficient | No disagreement sample captured | Four cards and one opened post cannot support a platform-level conclusion | Unsupported |

## Limits and provenance gaps

- Search-card text and the opened post author's statements are not independent verification. Valuations, revenue, user counts, ages, net-worth figures, exits, and funding claims require primary-source checks before reuse.
- E01 visibly came from a third-party account. E02–E04 were not confirmed as founder-owned accounts because their detail pages were not opened.
- Only E01 was inspected in detail. Engagement, dates, author identities, media details, comments, and replies for E02–E04 remain unverified.
- No comment or reply text was captured, so audience reaction and disagreement are not assessable.
- The exact capture timestamp, per-record query provenance, inclusion and exclusion rules, stopping rationale, and historical provider metadata are unavailable. They are reported as gaps rather than reconstructed.

## Privacy, publication, and retention

This public revision intentionally withholds the four canonical source URLs, displayed handles, names, exact post dates, engagement counts, ages, and monetary figures. The original local run object recorded source URLs; opaque IDs preserve the evidence structure without republishing identifying social data. This page is a sanitized trace of the run shape, not an independent audit of what mutable Instagram pages displayed during the historical capture. It also omits cookies, browser endpoints, expiring media URLs, raw socai output, downloaded media, and local filesystem paths.

Jev Social applies no automatic cleanup schedule. This document does not prove that the local run artifacts were deleted; the operator remains responsible for reviewing and removing saved run data and any socai artifacts. The current provider payload, browser-session, and retention boundaries are documented in [SECURITY.md](../SECURITY.md), but that current policy does not fill the historical metadata gaps above.

## Sources

1. E01 — canonical source withheld; opened post
2. E02 — canonical source withheld; discovery card only
3. E03 — canonical source withheld; discovery card only
4. E04 — canonical source withheld; discovery card only

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