1. Your niche

2. Your voice

3. Budget

Step one

Crux read your account. Here is what it thinks you write about.

Confirm or correct this. Everything downstream — which openings surface, how crowding is measured — is scored against these topics, so it is worth thirty seconds.

Posts read

312

Public posts only

Period

6 months

14 Mar – 11 Sep

Used for voice

40

Your best performers

The number is how strongly your published posts support that topic. Crux pre-selected everything above 50 — Databases sits at 21, which is why it is off.

Step two

Three rules, taken from your own best posts.

These are observations, not preferences we picked for you. Switch off any that read wrong and drafts will stop following them.

Open on a number

Thirty-one of your forty best posts start with a figure rather than a claim.

Yes: “My AI wrapper runs at 71% margin.”  ·  No: “Let’s talk about margins.”

Keep sentences under fourteen words

Your median sentence runs nine words. Longer lines track with a sharp drop in replies on your account.

Top posts: 9 words median  ·  Bottom posts: 21 words median

Never use hype words

Three phrases appear only in your worst-performing posts. Drafts get flagged before they reach the queue.

Banned: game changer · unlock · 10x · “let that sink in”

You can edit all of this later in Your DNA, and retrain from scratch whenever your account changes direction.

Step three

Set the ceiling on what X can charge you.

Crux samples your niche every fifteen minutes, and X bills per read. We pass that through at cost, so this cap is the only thing standing between you and a surprise.

Scanning pauses when the cap is reached and resumes on the 1st. You are never billed above it.

$

A typical Solo account spends about $0.84 a month, so $5.00 leaves plenty of headroom.

Not a login — you always sign in with X. This is how we send invoices, warn you at 80% of the cap, and reach you if you ever lose access to your X account.

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