The problem
One viral moment had brought 80K users in five days. Then the line went flat.
- Why now
- The founder was making UGC herself and it was “time-consuming and hit or miss.” Fluffle needed growth it could manufacture, in a region it hadn’t cracked.
- What success meant
- New users in Latin America, measured on calls completed rather than views.
Objective
Primary objective
New users in Latin America, from zero
Supporting metrics
- Completed calls (activation)
- Weekly views held over time (repeatability)
What Plutus did
Creator system
Five creators who look like the audience: people who test side hustles on camera. Daily posting on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat.
Testing system
Eight days, 38 posts, three hooks, ~2K views a day. On day 8, one video reframed the creator as a side-hustle tester delivering a verdict: 1.41M views, 2,479× normal reach, 527K views a day within 48 hours.
Optimization system
The pod reorganised around that format in 12 hours. We fixed the architecture (series cue then tension then reveal then process then proof then verdict) and varied the creator, language, audience and setting. Two wrappers (numbered job-test series, curated app lists), then cut by life situation. 1,725 posts, 771 unique videos.
The learning
The biggest lesson was that the wrapper beat the pitch. “Get paid to talk” as a direct claim: 2K views a day. The same claim inside a creator who tests side hustles and gives a verdict: 527K a day within 48 hours. Once the fixed structure was separated from the variable parts, it ran for three months without falling off. This gave the client a decision: open the next region with the same architecture and new creators, and measure it on completed calls, not views.
What happened next
Still running and still accelerating: the last 19 days ran at ~1,480 users a day, faster than the campaign average. The plan is to open the next region with the same architecture and new creators, measured on completed calls, not views.











