7-day warmup plan

This plan is a ready-made breakdown of a new account's first week: how many minutes to warm up, which action chances to set and when to add the first post. It is built for working from real phones in Lusiesta Studio and fits Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, adjusted for the set of actions each platform supports. For what a warmup is and how the task itself works, see What account warmup is and why it matters.

How to treat this plan

It is a reference point, not a guarantee. No platform publishes the rules of its protection systems, they change over time and work differently across countries and account types. The numbers below are a sensible starting point: if the accounts feel fine, activity can be added carefully; if problems start, activity gets cut back rather than pushed up.

The second rule: do not copy the same values to every phone and do not launch the whole farm in the same minute. Spread in duration, chances and start time is part of the point of a warmup. The easiest way is to start devices in groups of 3-5 with half an hour to an hour between them.

What to prepare before day one

1. Connect the phones over USB and make sure they show up on the Home page.
2. Install the input agent with the Initialize agent button in the Quick actions panel on the right - warmup tasks will not start without it.
3. Assign each device its own proxy on the Proxies page and click Check all. One IP shared by several accounts cancels out any warmup, details are in Why every device needs its own proxy.
4. Sign in to the account in the app on the phone itself: the screen can be controlled with the mouse right in the device tile.
5. If you plan to use comments, prepare the TXT file in advance: one comment per line, no links and no mentions.

Days 1-2: feed only

The goal of the first two days is to show the platform that someone uses the account as a viewer. Nothing beyond watching.

• Duration: 15-20 minutes.
• Like chance: 0%.
• Save chance: 0%.
• Follow chance: 0%.
• Comment chance: 0%.
• Sessions per day: two, several hours apart.

What you should end up with: two warmup tasks per phone with the Done status, and by the end of the second day the feed starts showing topical clips instead of a generic stream. If the status is Error, sort it out now rather than on day seven.

Days 3-4: first likes and saves

• Duration: 15-25 minutes.
• Like chance: 15-25%.
• Save chance: 5-10%.
• Follow chance: 0%.
• Comment chance: 0%.
• Sessions per day: two.

The app defaults (like 25%, save 8%) match this stage exactly. Set different numbers on different phones: 18% on one, 24% on another, 21% on a third. Identical settings across the whole farm are precisely the machine-like pattern a warmup is meant to move you away from.

Days 5-6: follows and first comments

• Duration: 20-30 minutes.
• Like chance: 20-30%.
• Save chance: 5-10%.
• Follow chance: 2-5%.
• Comment chance: 0-3%, and only if the TXT file is ready.
• Sessions per day: two.

A follow carries the most weight, which is why its chance is kept low: in a half-hour session even 3% adds up to a noticeable number of follows per day. Turn comments on only if the lines in the file read like a real reaction and not like a template. The Delete used comments toggle keeps repeats away: a used line is deleted from the file.

These are also good days to fill in the profile by hand - avatar, name, bio. A link in the bio is better left out during the first week.

Day 7: the first post

1. In the morning, run a regular warmup session of 15-20 minutes with the day 5 and 6 settings.
2. A few hours later, publish one clip per device: the upload engine takes exactly one file per phone per run, so ten phones will take ten different videos.
3. In the evening, run one more short warmup session so the day does not end on a post.

How to prepare files and captions is covered in Preparing content for upload. Keep the same rhythm in the second week: warmups stay a daily background, and posts are added gradually instead of in a batch.

Scheduling and tracking progress

The Start block on the Warmup tab has two modes. Now sends the task to work immediately. Scheduled adds a Repeat every field with an interval in hours (from 1 to 72), and the task is queued to start after that time.

An honest caveat about the current build: a deferred task like this runs once, not endlessly in a loop. So the most convenient way to get two sessions a day is to start a warmup in Now mode in the morning, queue the evening session as Scheduled with a 6-8 hour interval, and repeat that the next day. You can confirm the deferred task was created on the Tasks page - it will have the Scheduled status and a start time.

There are four convenient places to check that the plan is on track:

• The Tasks page: the Total tasks, Completed, In progress and Error cards. By the end of the day the number of completed tasks should match the number of sessions you planned.
• The Logs page: the live progress of the scenario with a filter by device - you can see which step the phone is on right now.
• The device tile on Home: once a day it is worth simply looking at what is happening on the phone screen.
• If a task fails, a diagnostic archive with a screenshot and the interface tree is attached to it automatically, and the Report an error button sends it to support.

Do not try to catch up. If a phone sat idle on day three, do not set double chances and an hour-long session the next day to make up for it: a sharp jump in activity after a pause looks more suspicious than a slow, even start. Just continue from the day you stopped on.

Common mistakes

• A link in the profile bio during the first days.
• Identical settings and identical start times on every phone.
• One IP for several accounts.
• Comments from day one, without a warmed-up feed, and templated on top of that.
• Posting on the very first day: the account has nothing to show that a human uses it.
• Action chances at maximum - a feed where every single clip gets a like does not look human.
• Ignoring task errors: a week where half the sessions failed at launch is not a warmup.