Twin1
01Took a company out of stealth and tripled its LinkedIn audience in ten days, without paying for a single follower.
The challenge
Twin1 builds a digital twin of a professional: a permission-aware model of one person's judgment and context. It launched in August 2026 with a $20M seed round co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca, and Aramco Ventures, and almost no audience. The launch had to reach legal, financial services, and enterprise buyers in a crowded AI category.
The approach
Dakota built the launch around the founders. Co-founders Lewis Z. Liu and Tom Cahn posted from their own profiles while the company page tagged the investors on the funding news. 35 LinkedIn posts and 41 on X went out in the first ten days. Paid LinkedIn and Google campaigns followed, along with the schema and llms.txt work that helps AI tools describe Twin1 correctly.
What worked
The funding post was the strongest of launch week at 9.4% engagement. In its first three days public, Twin1 gained more followers than four of six comparable AI companies gained in thirty.
Source: LinkedIn page analytics, August 20 to October 1, 2026. Follower and impression figures are organic.