How to set up a Reddit watcher that reports to your Gina

Why Reddit

People ask Reddit the questions they don’t ask a salesperson: what a fair price is, what to ask before hiring, who to avoid. A careful, honest answer from someone who does the work builds more trust than an ad. The hard part is finding the right threads in time and writing a reply that helps instead of selling. That’s the part Gina takes on.

How the watcher works

1. Watch list. The subreddits, the phrases your buyers use, what to skip, and your guardrails: what you do, what you don’t and what you can back up.
2. Scheduled check. Gina reads new posts in those subreddits on a schedule you set, as a routine.
3. Score and draft. Each matching post is checked for whether an answer from you adds something. The ones that pass get a reply drafted in your voice.
4. Your approval. Drafts wait in your approvals with the post link and a one-line summary. You edit, post it yourself and mark it done. Nothing posts automatically.

Step 1: Give Gina the watch list

Send this to Gina in the console or Slack, with the brackets filled in:

Set up a Reddit watcher.
Subreddits: [r/one], [r/two], [r/three], [r/four]
Look for posts asking for advice or a recommendation about [your service], using phrases like "anyone recommend", "how much should", "what should I ask".
Skip posts from businesses, posts older than a day and threads with more than 15 comments.
For each post worth answering, draft a reply that answers the question first, in my voice, and put it in my approvals with the link, a one-line summary and why it fits.
Run it every weekday at 7am.

Gina turns that into a routine you can see, pause or change in the console. Your guardrails go into her memory of your business, so every draft follows them.

Step 2: Read what lands

Each find reads like this in your approvals:

Reddit opportunity: r/HomeImprovement
Post: "Got three quotes for a new water heater, prices are all over the place. What should I be comparing?"
Angle: explain what changes the price (tank vs tankless, venting, permit, haul-away) before anything about you.
Why: a direct question in your trade, posted 3 hours ago, 6 comments, none of them answer the price question.
Draft: "The big swings usually come from four things: tank vs tankless, whether the venting has to change, the permit, and haul-away of the old unit. Ask each quote to list those separately and the comparison gets easy."

Most good drafts don’t mention your business at all. That’s the point: the profile link does the rest.

Step 3: The weekly brief

Ask Gina for a Friday routine: what people asked in your category this week, the objections that keep coming up, competitor mentions, and which subreddits produced real requests. Drop the quiet subreddits, add the ones that keep showing up in the brief.

Upgrade it: run the watcher from your AI

Gina has a public MCP server at https://app.talktogina.ai/api/mcp. Connect it once to the assistant you already use, and the watcher comes with you:

• “What did the Reddit watcher find today?” Your assistant reads the watcher’s thread in Gina and lists the finds.
• “What’s waiting on me in Gina?” It lists your open approvals, drafts included.
• “Run the Reddit watcher now.” It fires the routine early, before a big thread goes stale.
• “Tell Gina to add r/[new sub] to the watcher.” It sends Gina the task; Gina updates the routine.

Setup takes a few minutes: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta Muse, Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. Watching Facebook groups too? Those sit behind your login, so Muse does the reading there: set up a Facebook group watcher with Muse.

Where it stops

• Gina reads public subreddits only, and Reddit limits automated access. When a read fails, the thread says so.
• Every subreddit has its own rules on self-promotion. Read them, and answer only where an answer from you is welcome.
• Nothing posts automatically. A reply in a community should come from you.

Source for the connection steps and permissions: Gina docs: API keys for other tools.