- Will using an Instagram DM automation tool get my account banned?
- Not with HookSend. It is an approved Meta Tech Provider, which means Meta reviewed the app and approved every permission it uses. Every comment it hides and every DM it sends goes through Instagram's official API, paced inside Instagram's own limits. We never ask for your password, never log in as you and never drive a browser pretending to be you. That last part is what the tools that do get accounts restricted are actually doing.
- What does the AI in HookSend actually do?
- Six areas. It answers DMs from documents you uploaded, in the language the question was asked in. It hides abuse, scam links and fake support accounts under your posts. It pulls brand collaboration offers out of a busy inbox with the budget and deadline already extracted. It writes and rewrites your campaign copy, and drafts a whole campaign from one post link. It answers questions and picks the path inside a DM flow. And it connects to your own AI client over MCP, so you can run the whole account by asking.
- Does the AI make things up about my business?
- It is built not to. Answers are written from passages of your own uploaded documents and the AI is told to use nothing else, never general knowledge and never a guess. When your documents do not clearly cover a question it returns no answer at all, and HookSend checks that before anything is sent: a keyword chat sends your own fallback line instead, and Answer every DM sends nothing and leaves the message for you. It is also told never to invent a link, a phone number or a discount code that is not in your documents.
- Can the AI reply in Hindi, Hinglish or another language?
- Yes, and it does it by default. The reply comes back in the language the customer wrote in, even when your documents are in English. Hindi in Devanagari, Hinglish typed in English letters, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, French, German and Spanish are all handled. The language is detected in HookSend's own code and handed to the model as an instruction, because left to themselves the smaller models answered a Hinglish question in English. The tappable suggestions are translated too.
- What happens when I reply to a customer myself?
- The AI stops talking to that person. HookSend sees the message you typed, recognises it was not one of its own, and pauses the AI in that conversation for 30, 60 or 120 minutes, whichever you picked in Settings. It also closes the open chat so that when the pause ends it cannot pick up mid-thread as though nothing happened. Reply again and the pause starts over.
- Can I connect HookSend to Claude or ChatGPT?
- Yes. HookSend has an MCP connector, so you can add it to Claude, Codex, Antigravity or any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol and then ask for things in plain words: set up a campaign on this reel, build me a flow that collects an email, which post got the most reach last month. It offers 60 tools, covers what you would otherwise do in the dashboard, and costs nothing extra on any plan, including the free trial. What it can do still follows your plan, and anything irreversible asks you first.
- What happens if the AI provider goes down?
- Answers keep coming. HookSend does not depend on one model or one provider: a request is tried down a chain of models across several providers, and the first usable answer wins. A provider that is rate limited, slow or returning errors is skipped, and one that keeps failing is stood down for a while and then tried again. Nothing in the chain can throw, so the worst case is a comment left alone or a button that does nothing this minute — never a failed save or an undelivered DM.
- How much does the AI cost?
- AI work is charged in credits, and a credit is only spent on a real model call. Comment Guard's pattern rules cost nothing and run on every plan. An AI comment check or a collab read costs 1 credit, a DM flow routing step 1, an answer from your documents 2, the copy assistant 5 per campaign a month, and building a campaign from a link 10. Pro at ₹249$9 a month includes 200 credits, Business at ₹499$17 includes 1,000, Growth at ₹899$25 includes 2,000 and Agency at ₹1,599$40 includes 5,000. The free trial carries 500 credits and needs no card.
- Which plans include the knowledge bases and DM flows?
- Answering DMs from your documents and DM flows come with Growth at ₹899$25 a month (3 knowledge bases and 3 flows) and Agency at ₹1,599$40 (10 of each), and the 2 of each included in the free trial let you try both. Comment Guard's AI rules, the collab inbox and the AI copy assistant run on any plan that has AI credits. The MCP connector is included in the free trial and on every paid plan, but not on Free.
- Can I see it working before I sign up?
- Yes. Four of these features have a page that runs a demo in the page itself. Pick a business, tap a question, and you see the reply a customer would receive along with the line of the document it came from. No card and no account needed to look.
- Do I need an Instagram Business or Creator account?
- Yes. That is what Meta permits this kind of automation on. Switching a personal account to Creator is free and takes about a minute in the Instagram app.