In-house tools

X7

X7 is Mashin's tool that analyzes influencer profiles and matches them to the brand's strategy. It was built in 2025 and runs on artificial intelligence agents across two in-house models: C.O.N.T.E.N.T. and C.O.N.N.E.C.T.

Why an influencer has influence

X7 classifies each creator by the origin of their influence, because not all of them built it the same way, and that changes what they are good for.

Expertise or usefulness

The audience listens for technical competence: doctors, professional makeup artists, trainers, journalists.

Entertainment

Having a good time is the pitch. Comedians, travelers and gamers dominate this segment.

Social tribe

Influence comes from belonging to a community with its own identity. The creator leads or speaks for the group.

Emotional closeness

Built through empathy, with the feeling of listening to a friend. Common among micro-influencers and intimate narratives.

Admirable role model

The audience wants to be like that person: athletes, activists, entrepreneurs.

Aspirational lifestyle

The desire to reach the life the creator represents: travel, luxury, wellness.

Social role

Prestige or public relevance. Not necessarily experts, but their position makes them influential.

What problem it solves

Most influencer selections are made with a presentation sheet that shows results but does not explain how they were achieved. That sheet lets you compare reach between profiles, and little else.

X7 exists to replace that comparison with an analysis: what that creator does, why their audience listens to them, and whether their way of working is compatible with the brand that wants to hire them.

How it profiles an influencer

C.O.N.T.E.N.T., Mashin's model, describes how a creator produces content for their audience, across seven dimensions: character, omnichannel approach, narrative style, principles, engagement style, niche and themes.

Each dimension is analyzed by several specialized agents, and the full system adds up to 89. The character dimension, for example, works with twelve: sources of influence, archetypes, tone of voice, relationship style, lifestyle, projected socioeconomic level, cultural roots, opinion on traditional media, posturing, tag cloud, consistency and declared enemy.

How it profiles the brand

X7 analyzes the brand with the same model it applies to creators. It studies how the brand generated content in past campaigns and how it can generate it in the current one, and builds a profile comparable to an influencer's.

That step is what makes the match possible. Without a brand profile built with the same logic, the comparison would be between a detailed description and a hunch.

The filters

X7 also applies a set of hard filters before considering a profile: family friendliness and brand safety, audience quality, engagement rate, active social channels, minimum reach and demographic data.

Brand safety and family friendliness monitoring uses a Mashin prompt of its own and several AI tools. It is the filter that rules out first, because no creative fit makes up for a reputational risk.

How the match is made

C.O.N.N.E.C.T., Mashin's model, crosses the two profiles across seven criteria: core-trait compatibility, omnichannel strategy, narrative connection, tone naturalness, engagement style, creative alignment and target match.

That cross produces three answers, and all three matter. The points in common, which show where the collaboration will feel natural. The dissonances, which anticipate where the content will sound forced and the audience will notice. And the opportunities, which point to where that creator can take the brand into territory it has not reached yet.

The human filter

Every stage that involves AI agents includes human review to correct possible hallucinations from the tool. Those corrections feed back into the agent, so the system gets sharper with every use.

That detail also explains why the same agent is used for every profile Mashin analyzes: it keeps a balanced perspective across creators and reduces the evaluator's bias.

It also measures whether the campaign is good for the influencer

X7 classifies each campaign from the creator's point of view into three categories: positive, those that build their influence over their audience; neutral, those that add no value beyond the paycheck; and negative, those that can damage their reputation.

That analysis is no courtesy. A creator who accepts campaigns that wear them down loses influence, and the brand that later hires them buys less than it thinks it is buying.

Where the data comes from

X7 combines three sources. Mashin's own data, data provided by the brand's marketing team, and third-party data through Klear and other measurement platforms.

All proposed profiles are also audited with Klear, so the qualitative analysis sits alongside performance metrics a third party can verify.

What it delivers

An X7 analysis returns each creator's profile with a score per dimension, the brand's profile built with the same model, the matching result criterion by criterion, and the proposed profiles with their rationale.

It also feeds work that is not about selection: analysis of the brand's social media positioning, defining territories to work with talent, and creative insights for influencer campaigns.

What it does not do

X7 reduces the margin of error in a decision usually made by instinct or by reach. It does not guarantee a campaign's outcome or replace the judgment of whoever runs it: it orders the evidence so that judgment can be applied to more than a follower count sheet.

Comparing reach is easy. Understanding why someone has influence is the work.