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Case study

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Neuroscientist, mental-health author, and podcast host.

In 12 months her reach and engagement roughly tripled. In the same year most accounts went backwards. Ilai runs her entire content operation across eight platforms, with zero spent on ads.

8 platforms 12 months $0 on ads
Dr. Caroline Leaf
0M+
Impressions in 12 months
7.9M+
Engagements earned
0K+
New followers gained
10.4M+
Video views

Totals for the last 12 months, across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Bluesky, and Substack. No paid promotion.

Year over year

She moved the opposite way from the industry.

The cleanest like-for-like comparison, this year against last. Reach and engagement both roughly tripled.

Reach +204%

How many screens her content reached, this year against last.

Engagement +210%

Likes, comments, shares, and saves, this year against last.

Where the growth came from, by platform

+359% Facebook reach
+549% Facebook engagement
+155% Instagram reach
+155% Instagram engagement
+42% YouTube views
+39% TikTok followers
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In her words

A short video testimonial from the client, landing here soon.

The challenge

A serious expert, eight platforms, and no time to be everywhere.

Dr. Leaf reaches an audience that skews women 35 to 50 who come to her for careful, researched work on the mind. That audience is spread across eight platforms, each with its own format, rhythm, and voice. Showing up on all of them, every day, in her voice, is a second full-time job.

Generic agencies solve this with sameness: the same clip cut nine ways, captions that could belong to anyone. Ilai took on the whole operation instead, run on our Signal Method. We study her market, write in a voice we built with her, publish across all eight platforms, and answer her community in the minutes that matter, with people directing every call.

The divergence

The field went down. She went up.

Both lines start at the same point twelve months ago. One follows the industry average. The other is Dr. Leaf.

Dr. Caroline Leaf Industry average
+204% reach -12% average Same start · 12 months ago
Reach indexed to 100 twelve months ago. Industry line reflects the 2025 average organic decline of roughly 12%.
Platform by platform

Where each audience stands now.

Current standing across the eight platforms Ilai runs, all grown organically.

Facebook

523K followers
  • Up 28K this year
  • 76M impressions this year
  • Reach up 359% year over year

Instagram

932K followers
  • Up 46K this year
  • 129M impressions this year
  • Her biggest single audience

YouTube

1.26M views
  • 100K watch hours
  • 11K new subscribers
  • 4.1% click-through rate

TikTok

+39% follower growth
  • Fastest-growing of her platforms
  • Built from a standing start
  • Followers up 39% year over year

X · Threads · Bluesky · Substack

4 more platforms
  • Her voice, adapted for each feed
  • Written and published by people
  • One idea, shaped for where it lands
Why it worked

Four things generic agencies skip.

The growth is not luck. It comes from four commitments baked into the Signal Method.

01

Researched, not guessed

Every piece is grounded in her market, her audience of women 35 to 50, and what they actually respond to. Specific beats generic on every platform.

02

Human-led, human-gated

A real US team writes the angles and signs off on every piece before it ships. Software carries the load. The judgment stays with people.

03

Everywhere, one voice

One idea, adapted for eight platforms and posted in a single voice we built with her and hold to on every feed.

04

The first minutes decide

An engagement engine answers her community in her voice in the first minutes, the window that decides whether a post travels or stalls.

The context

Across the industry in 2025, the average account’s reach fell about 12% and engagement dropped close to 28%. The typical Facebook page now reaches only 1 to 2% of its own followers. Against that, Dr. Leaf’s reach and engagement roughly tripled.

She grew at a size where most accounts flatten out, in a year the whole field shrank.

The proof

One dashboard, pulled straight from the platforms.

Dr. Caroline Leaf year-in-review dashboard
Every figure on this page is pulled from the platforms and refreshed automatically.
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