How do you get an Instinct AI invite?
Instinct is invite only. Every user gets five invites, its founder puts growth at ten percent a day on no marketing, and codes have turned up on eBay.
Every Instinct user gets 5 invites, and that is the entire supply. You get one of those, or you join the waitlist. There is no third route and nothing you can pay Instinct to skip the queue.
What the gate actually is
The founder described the mechanics in his first long interview on 28 September 2026, and they appear on no page the company publishes. The programme opened with about 200 people, friends and family, and the first days added roughly five users at a time. That rate climbed from about two percent a day to three, then six, seven, eight, and he puts it now at ten or eleven percent day over day, with nothing spent on marketing.
What that percentage measures is worth being clear about. It is not advertising working. It is roughly one in ten existing users deciding, each day, to give away one of the five they will ever have.
The waitlist
If nobody you know has a spare code, the site takes your details. Its SMS terms describe a text arriving when your spot comes up, which is the only published description of how the queue behaves.
What the codes go for
He says he has seen invites selling on eBay at around $300, and describes the social traffic around them: people emailing him to ask, embarrassed about it, and other people boasting about having three left.
Treat that number as an observation rather than a market rate. It is one person describing what he noticed, it is not a price Instinct sets or receives, and buying a code from a stranger means trusting a stranger with the account that will hold your email and your card.
Why the gate exists, in his account
Not scarcity marketing, on his telling. The constraint is compute: he describes spending about 40 percent of his time acquiring it, with demand roughly doubling every week and lead times of months. The cap on invites is what stops the product waking up to ten times the users and not being able to serve them.
Whether that is the whole reason is not something this site can check. What is checkable is that the gate is real and that it has not moved.
What you get if you are let in
No published price. 25 of the 84 listings here publish none, and Instinct is one of them: its site names no figure while its terms carry a paid-services section describing fees charged to a card. What it does, what it holds and what its policy says are all recorded on its listing, with dates.
If you would rather not wait, 25 listings here can be started by texting a number, with no account and no queue.