Redo your grid with Claude

Find two or three creators whose grids you would want. Screenshot their reels tab. You are not copying their content. You are copying what makes the grid feel like one thing.

• 01Look for the same shot on every tile. That does most of the work.
• 02One short headline per cover beats three lines of text.
• 03Do this first. I made 96 options before I found the look, and the look decided it in one message.

Here are screenshots of three Instagram grids I love. Tell me what makes each one look consistent: the shot, the framing, the text, the colours. Then write me one cover style that does the same thing for my account.

Without a brand kit, Claude designs like everyone else. Give it your fonts, your colours and the rules you care about, and it designs like you.

• 01Name the font files on your Mac so it can use them.
• 02Write the rules down, even small ones. Mine: never colour a single headline word, and no em dashes.

This is my brand kit: [your fonts], [your colours], and these rules: [your rules]. Use it for every cover. If a design choice is not covered by the kit, ask me before you invent one.

Claude never touched my Instagram. It worked from the original video files on my Mac. It matched each reel on my grid to the clip it came from, then picked the sharpest frame with my eyes open.

• 01Use the raw clips, before captions went on. Screenshots of the posted reel have text burned in.
• 02Keep your face the same size and in the same spot on every tile. This is why a grid looks planned.
• 03Ask for three options per reel on one contact sheet. Picking takes seconds.

Here are screenshots of my reels tab, top to bottom. List every tile in order. My original videos are in [folder]. Match each reel to the clip it came from, and skip trial reels. For each one, use the Mac's built-in face detection to find the sharpest frame where my face is centred and my eyes are open. Show me three options per reel on a contact sheet. Then scale the chosen frames so my face is the same size and in the same spot on every cover.

Each cover says what that video actually covers, in plain words. If the video does not say it, the cover does not either.

• 01Two short lines. Big enough to read on the grid.
• 02Read it back as a stranger. Would they know what the video is about?
• 03My first pass drifted into clickbait. I made Claude redo every title from the caption.

Read each reel's caption and transcript. Write a two-line cover title for each one, in plain words a small business owner would use. It must say what the video actually covers. No bait, and no claims the video does not make.

A small sticker or two makes a cover feel alive. Every one of mine is something real from that video: a tool I named, a line I said, a number I showed, a command I used.

• 01Mix the sizes. One small badge and one medium card works.
• 02Sticker text needs to be readable on a phone. About 34px on a 1080px cover.
• 03No made-up screens or sample data. It looks alive but it is not real, and people can tell.

For each cover, add one to three small stickers using only real things from that video: a tool I named, a line I said, a number I showed, or a command I used. Mix the sizes, keep them off my face, and make the text big enough to read on a phone.

Judge the covers together, not one at a time. A cover that looks fine alone can break the grid. Once the mock looks right, the swap takes minutes.

• 01Number the files in grid order, with 01 as the newest reel.
• 02AirDrop them to your phone, then Edit cover, Add from camera roll, one reel at a time.
• 03Screen record the before and after. That is your next reel.

Render every cover at 1080 by 1920, numbered in grid order with 01 as the newest. Then mock up my reels tab on a phone with all of them in place, so I can see the whole grid before I change anything. Save the covers to a folder I can AirDrop.