Opus LongevityThursday 22 October 2026

Mike and Nick's daily brief

Updated Thursday 22 October 2026, 11:30am Pacific

Today's top stories

Email, day one

Our 24-month BROQ offer email sold $1,824 on its first day

On Wednesday, 4 customers a year into our 24-month BROQ plan each paid $456 for 12 more months: 59% of Wednesday's Shopify sales.

Nick and his team sent it. Today's 20 emails went out at 10am; this week's emails could bank $12,700 by Tue 3 Nov, Wednesday's $1,824 included (Claude's email session's estimate).

Shopify's Wednesday orders, read by Claude's ads manager session; Klaviyo send status, 11:15am

This week's results

Sales up 13% in 7 days; Meta's ads beat break-even since Monday

LAST 72 HOURS: Mon 19 to Wed 21 Oct$14,500 of sales; Meta's ads 1.22 times break-even (1.53 counting the Amazon sales they bring).

LAST 7 DAYS: 15 to 21 Oct$32,900, up from $29,100 (8 to 14 Oct). TODAY: Thu 22 Oct, to 7am5 new Meta customers ($486, from $69 of ads).

Shopify, TikTok Shop and Amazon's own records; Meta's spend with our Shopify orders, read 7:02am

Video ideas

The 198 most-watched longevity videos of 2026, on one page

From TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, most with over 500,000 views. Videos on sulforaphane, spermidine and NMN come first, each with its script.

Five new video ideas drawn from them are now on the TikTok & Meta scripts page, ideas 37 to 41.

Claude's research session: each platform's own view counts, read Wed 21 Oct, 8:14pm to 9:20pm Pacific

MoneyFigures read Thu 22 Oct, 5:46 to 9:28am Pacific
Sales money coming in (not profit)

2 weeks: Wed 21 Oct to Tue 3 Nov

$58.3k

4 weeks: Wed 21 Oct to Tue 17 Nov

$116k

Through December: Wed 21 Oct to Thu 31 Dec

$389k
Includes $121k that comes only if TikTok ads grow. The parts:
  • Sales at last month's pace: $233k
  • If TikTok ads rise to $1,500 a day by 14 Dec: $121k
  • This week's emails to our customers: $15.2k
  • Holiday sales, as estimated Tue 20 Oct (Black Friday bundle emails, Amazon, Green Monday): $8.7k
  • New subscribers' monthly orders (this part is after product and shipping costs): $10.8k
  • Extra sales from Amazon ads: $0.3k
Bank deposits
Not shown yet. Our Chase deposits were last downloaded up to Tue 20 Oct; they'll show here as soon as the next download comes in.

Right now: Thu 22 Oct

Held by platforms
$20.7k
Amazon $14,467, Shopify $4,537, TikTok Shop $1,691.
Most of it should reach Chase by Tue 3 Nov, as part of the $58.3k coming in; $1,835 of Shopify's $4,537 stays in Shopify Balance, our account at Shopify.

Due: Mon 26 Oct

Repaying Stan (inventory financing)
Est. $4.7k
Claude's estimate from bottles sold: $3.9k in a slow week, $5.3k in a fast one

Sales money coming in: Claude's forecast on the bank balance page, made Tue 20 Oct. Other figures: Chase and each platform's payouts page.

Full money page

Most useful today

The numbers

Sales and ads

Figures read Thu 22 Oct, 5:42am to 9:26am Pacific

Last 72 hours: Mon 19 to Wed 21 Oct

Times break-even. 1.00x = the ads paid for themselves.

Without spillover: sales in the store the ad sends people to. With spillover: adds the sales these ads bring to our other stores within a week.

AdsWithout spilloversales in the store the ad sends people toWith spilloveradds the sales these ads bring to our other stores within a week
Meta adsnew customers only: new to us or back after 45 days, never subscription deliveries1.22x1.53x
TikTok adsnew customers only, the same way; $315 of TikTok orders we can't check yet count as new customers0.50x1.11x
Amazon adsbreak-even figure not in yet

Yesterday: Wed 21 Oct

Sales (website, TikTok Shop and Amazon)

$5.1k

▼ 19% vs Tue 20 Oct ($6.3k)

Last 7 days: 15 to 21 Oct

Sales (website, TikTok Shop and Amazon)

$32.9k

▲ 13% vs 8 to 14 Oct ($29.1k)

Sales each day. Last bar: yesterday.

Ad spend (Meta + TikTok ads)

$3.8k

▲ 29% vs 8 to 14 Oct ($2.9k)

Sales come from Shopify, TikTok Shop and Amazon's own records, so they can differ a little from Nick's sales ledger.

Break-even: what each $1 of ads must bring in to pay for itself after product costs (Mike and Nick's figures). Figures from Shopify, TikTok, Meta and Amazon.

Full dashboard: each platform, 4 time periods ›

Growth

Past BROQ customers

75 customers whose BROQ plan ran out could come back

$150 off our $712 12-month plan: $562 a year, one pack a month. About $1,500 by Tue 3 Nov from 2 or 3 buyers.

That $1,500 is part of this week's $12,700. Its codes are live, and its emails went out at 10am today.

Claude's email session, after card fees: about $650 an order (some take 2 to 4 packs a month), so 2 to 3 orders

Meta ads

Filmed videos found 33 of Meta's 36 new customers in a week

Picture ads: $556 for 3 new customers. Moved to videos: up to $620 banked by 4 Nov, $1,340 by 18 Nov, $3,560 by 31 Dec.

The videos that would get that $556 first: four of Nick's videos, one of them the NMN-99 video creator Andy filmed.

Claude's Meta ads session, 14 to 20 Oct: Meta spend, Shopify first orders. Up to: if the picture-ad money did as well as videos, counting orders from Thu 22 Oct

  • TikTok and Meta

    Eight new video scripts, built on the Meta ads finding new customers

    Led by a BROQ script: the #2 selling sulforaphane product claimed 50mg, and the lab found 16mg.

    BROQ's Meta ads did best, Sun 18 to Tue 20 Oct: 2.30 times break-even, 2.89 counting Amazon sales. The new lines for Mike to say are on the questions page.

    Claude's video session. Break-even: Claude's ads session, new customers only

  • TikTok ads

    Ad money could leave our video “In 2 years I turn 60”

    Its $564 of ads sold $278. On other videos it could make $230 to $900 profit by 16 Nov, $960 to $3,800 by 31 Dec.

    Only if TikTok lets us take that video out. Low end: the $16 a day it got Sunday; high end: its $63 daily average, 9 to 17 Oct.

    Claude, from TikTok's own count by video, 9 to 17 Oct; the money moved sells at TikTok's $3.33 average per $1 of ads, all buyers

  • TikTok videos

    A new video before Friday lets TikTok's budget grow again

    Our budget rule raises TikTok's ad budget 10% on Fri 23 Oct if there's a new video to put it behind.

    Mike's new, second “Top 3 supplements to live to 200” video is filmed. On TikTok before 1:05am Fri 23 Oct, it lets the raise happen; running it as a Meta ad is a separate question on the questions page.

    Budget rule from Claude's ads session

  • Ad landing pages

    Lab results up top could lift the “top 5 longevity supplements” page

    0.5% of its visitors buy; our other ad pages, 1.2%. At 1.2%: $700 more sales in 2 weeks, $1,400 in 4, $3,150 by 31 Dec.

    Claude's daily ad page report: about 3 more buyers and $350 more first-order sales a week, before card fees

  • Email sign-ups

    Two new pop-ups could turn site visitors into email customers

    Each offers our free guidebook. Welcome-email sales: $100 a month if about 20 more people sign up a month, $2,300 a month if 460 do.

    If they go live today: about $40 to $800 by Sat 31 Oct, $80 to $1,900 by Sat 14 Nov, $240 to $5,500 by 31 Dec.

    Claude, from Klaviyo ($5 a sign-up). Low: 1 in 100 of the 2,000 who see a pop-up a month. High: 1 in 100 of all 46,000 visitors

  • Black Friday

    Our Black Friday bundle sale is built and ready

    A free SPMD-99 with BROQ or NMN-99 bundles. After costs, by 31 Dec: from $900 lost to $12,700 made, on $28,000 to $59,900 more sales.

    Claude's best guesses, from the Black Friday plan. 27 Nov to 1 Dec, top customers from 24 Nov. Includes the Black Friday sale emails ($9,200 to $18,400 of sales)

  • Keeping subscribers

    Keeping more subscribers: $1,000 to $4,000 more cash by 31 Dec

    33 website subscribers paused in two weeks. Failed-card follow-ups and a skipped-month offer: up to $300 by 31 Oct, $300 to $1,300 by 14 Nov.

    Claude's overnight review (pauses in the two weeks to 16 Oct). This cash is already inside Claude's bank forecast, not on top of it

  • Meta budgets

    Meta's budgets could shift toward BROQ and multi-product ads on Friday

    BROQ and multi-product up 25%, SPMD-99 down 15%, NMN-99 down 30%: spend barely changes. Starts Fri 23 Oct only if Mike and Nick OK it.

    Their OK is the Meta budgets question on the questions page.

    Our budget rule (Claude's ads session), based on new customers Sun 18 to Tue 20 Oct

  • X on Amazon

    X, our brain supplement, nearly tripled its normal Amazon sales Tuesday

    14 sold for $938 on Tue 20 Oct; a normal day is about 5 ($335). Second jump in a week (16 on Thu 15 Oct).

    Amazon Seller Central, day by day. Normal: 5.1 a day ($334.52), from Nick's X weekly ledger, 20 Sep to 17 Oct

Ad library

What's selling in our ads

1.0× break-even: the ad pays for itself. On TikTok, only sales that weren't subscription deliveries or recent repeat buyers count. “With spillover” adds sales on other platforms.

Last 30 days: 22 Sep to 21 Oct

Last 7 days: 15 to 21 Oct

Sources: Meta and TikTok ad accounts, Shopify orders, read Thu 22 Oct. How each figure is worked out: ad library.

Open the ad library: every ad, from yesterday to the last 30 days ›

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