Pulse is a Claude Code sub-agent that reads your draft and scores it against the open-source twitter/the-algorithm heavy-ranker weights. Five axes. One number. Concrete rewrites for whatever drags the score down — before reach mistakes go permanent.
No ad spend. No influencer comp. The first sales came from Claude Code recommending Septim in chat, from a YouTube reviewer adding the Agents Pack to a daily-use lineup, and from an enterprise IT director vetting the tool against a real X workflow.
Most drafts are written for likes. The X algorithm doesn't care about likes (weight +0.5). It cares about the reply the author replies back to (weight +75.0). That's a 150x gap, and the post that gets 50 likes and 0 replies scored ~25 in the heavy ranker. Pulse closes that gap before the post is permanent.
The For-You algorithm rewards one engagement type 150x more than likes — replies the original author engages with. Most drafts are written for likes. They die.
Existing tools (Hypefury, Typefully, Tweet Hunter) optimize for cadence, hooks, and "viral templates" extracted from past performance. None of them score against the actual published weights. None of them flag the external-link tax. None of them tell you a 30-second-dwell mini-essay activates good_click_v2 (+10).
Pulse is the missing gate. Halo guards voice. Pulse guards algorithm. Together they answer "is this draft worth posting?" before the post goes live.
Every weight Pulse uses comes from twitter/the-algorithm-ml/projects/home/recap/README.md (heavy ranker) or twitter/the-algorithm/home-mixer/ (visibility filters). Source-cited, not vibes-cited.
Every competitor sells a black box. Pulse sells a transparent gate. The integrity moat is that Pulse states its limits in every output — and on this page, before you pay.
These signals exist in the algorithm but Pulse cannot evaluate them pre-post — and any tool that claims it can is selling fiction:
If a tool tells you it scores your draft against a specific reader's feed-rank, it's guessing. Pulse won't.
Pulse is a single markdown sub-agent file. Drop it into ~/.claude/agents/ and Claude Code picks it up. No backend, no API key, no daemon.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents — one-time setup if it doesn't already exist.curl the sub-agent file into ~/.claude/agents/pulse.md. Plain markdown, ~6,000 chars, no dependencies./agents pulse followed by your draft. Pulse returns a 0-100 score, axis breakdown, 3-5 concrete rewrites, and a ship decision.Hypefury is $19-79/mo. Tweet Hunter is $49/mo. Typefully is $12.50-25/mo. Pulse is $49 once during founding week (returns to $79 on Mon 2026-05-26). Net-cheaper than one month of Tweet Hunter — and the only tool that cites the source.
twitter/the-algorithm.Six questions that come up before the buy click. Answered with citations, not vibes.
The rubric is built on the published twitter/the-algorithm structure — the +75 / -74 spread between author-engaged replies and negative feedback is the structural backbone of the heavy ranker. Pulse's claim is directional, not promissory: a draft that scores high on the published weights is more likely to perform than one that scores low.
Pulse does not promise reach lifts. The Honest Disclosure block above lists every signal Pulse cannot measure — SimClusters, Real-Graph, TweepCred, live velocity. If a tool tells you it scores against a specific reader's live feed, it's guessing.
No. The rubric is the product. The LLM is the scoring substrate.
Every weight in the 5-axis rubric cites a file path in twitter/the-algorithm-ml/projects/home/recap/README.md or twitter/the-algorithm/home-mixer/. Swap Claude for any model with the same prompt and the citations don't move. The work is in the rubric — what to score, what to ignore, what to flag as un-scoreable.
The $49 tier is for one writer — one person, one ~/.claude/agents/pulse.md, one rubric. If you're writing on X yourself, that's the tier.
The $999 Team tier is for any company where three or more people write on X. Marketing teams, founder-led startups, agencies running client accounts. That's the threshold where SaaS competitors charge $100+ per seat per month and the math flips fast. Team is lifetime, unlimited seats, one charge.
30 days. No questions. Full refund. Email [email protected] with the Stripe receipt and we send the money back.
Yes. Pulse is a single markdown file dropped into any Claude Code agents/ directory — typically ~/.claude/agents/pulse.md, but project-local .claude/agents/ works too. Once it's there, /agents pulse score 'draft' works in any Claude Code session.
No daemon, no backend, no API key, no telemetry. You can fork it, tune the rubric, swap the underlying model. The file is yours.
No. Pulse is a free upgrade for Agents Pack v2 buyers — the email landed on launch day with the install instructions. If you missed it, email [email protected] with your original Stripe receipt and we resend.
Score before you post. One markdown file. The pre-post gate the rest of X-growth tools forgot to build. Founding-week price ($49) holds through Mon 2026-05-26, then returns to $79 — lifetime, either way.
Pulse Team — unlimited seats for one company, one-time charge, lifetime access. Same markdown file, same rubric, deploys across an entire team's ~/.claude/agents/.