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Notes from running the loops.
What the engine learns across the apps it runs, written up so you can use it without the engine.
Your first 1,000 app downloads without ads: the brief you give the agent
The organic loop in 2026, written as instructions for an agent: keywords per country, a listing built for App Store Tags and Ask Play, a hook a day from reviews, every review answered. No budget, no busywork.
Keyword volume per country in 2026: what your agent should pull and why one global number lies
How per country search volume works on the App Store and Google Play, what App Store Tags, Guided Search and indexed screenshot captions changed, and the exact brief that turns research into a listing.
Growth loops versus funnels: how to brief an agent to run all three loops for your app
The funnel model spends and empties, the loop model compounds. What that means in 2026 when an agent runs organic, paid and retention as one system, with the brief for each loop.
Apple Ads payback in 2026: the rules you give the agent for raising, holding and pausing
Cost per trial, trial to paid, payback window. The three numbers that decide whether an Apple Ads campaign grows, holds or pauses, with custom product pages, keyword linking and the exact rules an agent should run by.
App retention in 2026: benchmarks for day 1, 7 and 30, and the fixes you have the agent draft
Rough retention benchmarks, why the day 3 leak matters most, why the stores now rank on retention, and the briefs for the three fixes that move day 30: the push prompt, onboarding, win back.
TikTok hooks for apps in 2026: written from your reviews, cut for search, briefed to an agent
TikTok is a search engine now, Google Play is adding Play Shorts, and templates sound like templates. How to have an agent turn the sentences your users already say into hooks that get watched and found, with ten examples.
App Store Tags, indexed captions and 70 custom product pages: the 2026 App Store playbook for your agent
Apple changed how apps get found: AI generated tags from your metadata, screenshot captions in the index, custom product pages in organic search, retention and rating recency in ranking. What each change means and the brief for it.
Ask Play, Gemini installs and ChatGPT recommendations: how to get your app recommended by AI
In 2026 people ask an assistant which app to install before they open a store. What Ask Play reads, how Gemini installs apps without the Play Store, how answer engines pick apps to cite, and the brief that makes your app the answer.
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