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The marketing infrastructure for your sub-armies.

Astral.AI is the outreach layer behind the network. It runs automated, consent-based messaging across Instagram and other social channels - DMing, qualifying, and warming the right people at scale, so every sub-army has a pipeline that fills itself.

The premise

Reach is the bottleneck. Astral.AI removes it - sending the right message to the right person automatically, without ever sounding like a bot.

Astral.AI runs on the same unified anti-hallucination system as the rest of the network. Before it messages anyone, it verifies who they are and what's true about them against a shared ledger - so automated outreach stays accurate, on-brand, and consent-based, not spray-and-pray.

What it does

Automated outreach that sounds human.

A complete social marketing engine for the sub-armies - built to message at scale while staying personal, accurate, and compliant.

Instagram DM automation

Targeted, personalized direct messages that open conversations with the right people automatically.

Multi-channel reach

Outreach extends beyond Instagram to the channels where your audience actually lives.

Audience targeting

It finds and segments the right people by intent and fit before a single message goes out.

Conversation handling

Replies are read, qualified, and routed - warm leads handed off, the rest nurtured.

Sub-army infrastructure

Every sub-account gets its own outreach engine, orchestrated centrally and branded locally.

Compliance & logging

Consent-based by default, with every message logged and traceable end to end.

How it works

From a target list to live conversations.

01

Define the audience

Describe who each sub-army should reach. Astral.AI builds and segments the target list.

02

Message at scale

Personalized DMs and messages go out across channels, in each sub-army's voice.

03

Qualify replies

Conversations are read and scored; warm leads surface, the rest stay nurtured.

04

Hand off warm

Ready prospects are routed to the right person or agent to close.

Consent-based outreach with full message-level logging

Identity and fact verification before any send

Per-sub-account engines, centrally orchestrated

Human-sounding conversations, not spam

Founding partnership

Signed at the foundation. Proven in the stack.

Certificate of founding partnership

David Townshend

Founding Partner - Astral.AI

Co-founder of Astral.AI, co-architecting the social marketing infrastructure for the network's sub-armies and the unified anti-hallucination system that keeps automated outreach accurate and consent-based.

Effective

2026

Reference

AS-FP-001

Status

Verified

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Give every sub-army a pipeline.

Astral.AI is the marketing infrastructure behind Spider Network's sub-armies. Tell us who you want to reach, and we'll switch on the outreach engine.