How-to · 3 steps
How to find creators
with Monid.
Give this to your agent
$set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md, then find the <niche> creators whose last video beat their own baseline
and let it take it from there.
#CreatorFollowersOutlier
1aiya.tea2,101150,355x ✓
2elii.soong16,5513,523x ✓
3djxstash77,440354x ✓
4ilove_me.111381,218,188 views ✓
5arnisabaku02,944561,591 views ✓
6victor.broola3311416,856 views ✓
7matchaandco236,182verified ✓
20 videos ranked against their own creatorsagent running$0.0075
Real run, 2026-09-23. Public creator accounts; a handle that is a person's name is shortened.
Step 1
Set up Monid.
One line. It installs the CLI and asks for an API key from app.monid.ai. New accounts start with $1.00.
Say this to your agent
>set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md
Step 2
Pick what you need. Say it in one sentence.
Click a job. Paste the sentence, fill in the brackets.
Find videos beating the creator's baseline
Say this to your agent
>search tiktok for <niche> on monid, take the authors with the most views, then pull each author's recent posts by their sec_uid, not their handle, and rank by views over that author's own median. give me the multiplier per creator and the cost per row
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /tiktok/app/v3/fetch_video_search_result$0.0015
tikhub /tiktok/app/v3/fetch_user_post_videos$0.0015
apify /apidojo/tiktok-profile-scraper · not run$0.00045 / result
apify /clockworks/tiktok-video-scraper · not run$0.015 / result
What came backmatcha · 2026-09-23
the outlier
real vs. fake MATCHA🍵 #matcha #matchalatte…
@aiya.tea · 2,104 followers
their own median
Here are the tools essential to optimize the…
@aiya.teatop outlier2,101 followers · 26,161,756 views against a 174-view median · 150,355x
second16,551 followers · 17,561,952 views against 4,986 · 3,523x
third77,440 followers · 2,562,282 views against 7,230 · 354x
the patternthe multiplier shrinks as the account grows, so baseline reach rises faster than peak reach
caveatthe 150,355x hit is from 2024 measured against a 2026 baseline
$0.006one search plus three baselines
Who posts about this niche
Say this to your agent
>use monid to search tiktok creators for <niche> on the app search, not the web one, and give me 20 accounts with follower, like and video counts, sorted by followers
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /tiktok/app/v3/fetch_user_search_result$0.0015
apify /apidojo/tiktok-profile-scraper · not run$0.00045 / result
What came backmatcha · 2026-09-23
range9 followers up to 2,836,795 · median 60,910
bands7 under 1K · 8 between 10K and 100K · 3 between 100K and 1M · 1 over 1M
verified2 of 20, so most of the niche is unverified mid-tier
no extra callfollower, like and video counts come back with the search
$0.0015per search, 20 creators
Does follower count predict reach?
Say this to your agent
>search tiktok for <niche> videos on monid and give me views, likes and the author's follower count per row, then tell me how many accounts under 10,000 followers cleared 100K views
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /tiktok/app/v3/fetch_video_search_result$0.0015
apify /apidojo/tiktok-scraper · not run$0.00045 / result
What came backmatcha · 2026-09-23
TikTok
matcha 🍵🍡 #matcha
@ilove_me.11 · 138 followers
TikTok
matcha trending #matchatrending #makeitviral
@victor.broola3 · 311 followersthe set20 videos · 19 creators · 56.3M views · median 489,224
small accounts6 of 20 came from accounts under 10K followers and still cleared 100K views
smallest hit138 followers · 1,218,188 views
median author4,100 followers, so follower count does not gate reach here
$0.0015per search, 20 videos
Check a creator's profile
Say this to your agent
>pull the instagram profile for <handle> on monid: followers, following, verified, category and the link in bio
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /instagram/v1/fetch_user_info_by_username$0.0015
apify /apify/instagram-profile-scraper · not run$0.003 / result
What came backmatcha · 2026-09-23
Instagram
💚 +500.000 clientes toman nuestro matcha 🍵…
@matchaandco · verified · Organic Grocery Storeprofile236,182 followers · verified · a shop category and an external link
bionames its sourcing region and the year it started
a warningthe v2 user search was marked degraded and returned 400 twice for $0.00
$0.0015per profile
Find the founders, not the creators
Say this to your agent
>search linkedin on monid for <niche> founders, passing limit 5 explicitly because the default is 25, then pull the recent posts of the most active one
What the agent runsdone
ploid /linkedin/search$0.01
ploid /linkedin/posts$0.01
apify /harvestapi/linkedin-profile-search · not run$0.015 / result
What came backmatcha · 2026-09-23
5 foundersJapan, Belgium, France and India · 4 of 5 outside the US
posts10 recent posts, all business-to-business, April to May 2026
a different poolnone of them showed up in the TikTok search
caveatthe post endpoint returns text and dates; its engagement counts come back at zero
$0.02two calls
Get the channel's business email
Say this to your agent
>for these youtube channels, get the business email from the about page with apify on monid. it is $0.18 per cached result and $0.60 fresh, so confirm with me before you run it
What the agent runsdone
apify /dataovercoffee/youtube-channel-business-email-scraper · not run$0.18 / result
hunterio /email-verifier · not run$0.012 / check
What it returnsshape of the answer
returnschannel, business email, and where it was found
inputa list of channels plus a flag for fresh instead of cached
price$0.18 cached · $0.60 fresh, the most expensive call on this page
$0.18per result · catalog rate
Step 3
Take the cheapest route with Monid.
One search sizes the niche. Baselines cost the same as the search, so buy them only for the creators worth checking.
Search · $0.0015
Video search$0.001520 rows with views
Creator search$0.001520 accounts with counts
Baseline · first source that answers
Apify profile$0.0004
TikHub posts$0.0015
Apify TikTok API$0.003
Apify video scraper$0.015
Rank
Views over median$0.00
Jev judgement$0.042creator or brand ad · catalog rate
Shortlist
rowbaseline fromcost
1TikHub posts$0.003
2TikHub posts$0.003
3under the floor$0.0015
4Apify profile$0.0019
5Apify TikTok API$0.006
5 of 5 rows$0.0155
Say this to your agent
>find which of the top ten <niche> creators had a video beat their own baseline, cheapest source first, and show the cost per creator
“against their own median”a big account doing its usual numbers is not a find
“skip anything under the floor”a view floor keeps you from buying baselines you will not use
“cheapest source first”the agent orders the post-history sources by Monid's prices
“cost per creator”the receipt ends up in the file
One key. 1,700+ tools.
Creator research is one aisle.
Every feedtikhub · $0.0015 / call
Ready-made actorsapify · from $0.00045 / result
LinkedIn peopleploid · $0.01 / result
One video, one pagemrscraper · $0.01 / call
Judge every rowtypesafe · $0.042 / call
The web around themexa · from $0.002 / query
Read any URLcontext.dev · $0.018 / page
Verify their emailhunterio · $0.012 / check
Who runs the brandapollo · $0.05 / person
Remake the winnerminimax · $0.038 / s at 480P
Send the briefagentmail · $0.001 / email
Call themsaperly · $0.005 / unit
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