Breakout Alerts: Catch a Hit the Moment You Re-Scan

Re-scan a page you already track and PostSnag flags any post running far above that page's normal, right when the scan finishes, not days later.

The problem

You keep a shortlist of pages you actually care about, but "regularly" checking in quietly turns into "whenever you remember," and by the time you open a page again you're scrolling through a wall of posts trying to eyeball which one did something unusual. By the time you notice a real breakout, on your own or because someone mentions it, the moment has usually passed: the hook is stale and whatever trend it rode has moved on. Facebook won't tell you a post is doing five times what a page usually gets, and nobody does that math by hand for every page they track, so real breakouts slide by unnoticed.

What we're building

An alert that runs the moment you re-scan a page, built on the same baseline that powers the overperformance score. PostSnag compares each freshly captured post against that page's own trailing average, live, and anything that clears the bar gets flagged immediately instead of buried in a batch of new posts. It only ever runs off a scan you choose to do yourself, never a background process watching pages while you're not looking:

• A breakout badge on the specific post, calculated from that page's own trailing average, the same honest baseline the overperformance score uses.

• Triggered only by a scan you initiate yourself, never a background check.

• Works across your whole tracked list at once, not just the page you happen to be looking at.

How it works for you

You re-scan your weekly shortlist and one page posted something genuinely running hot. As PostSnag pulls in new posts, it scores each against that page's baseline in real time, and the moment the scan wraps you land on a summary with the breakout called out at the top, multiplier and all, one click from the post's detail view.

What you get

• No more scanning a fresh batch by eye hoping you notice what matters. PostSnag tells you.

• You catch a breakout while it's still current, in time to actually act on it.

• Zero background noise: alerts only ever appear off a scan you actually ran.

For example

You track a dozen pages in the home fitness niche and re-scan every Monday. This week, PostSnag flags one post sitting at 6.1x its usual engagement, a simple before-and-after reel with one specific line doing all the work, and you have that insight on Monday instead of a month from now.

What it unlocks

Breakout Alerts turns re-scanning from a maintenance chore into something worth doing on a schedule, running on the same baseline as the overperformance score so the two features reinforce each other, and it lays the groundwork for things like a weekly digest or a new-post badge.

Who it's for

Anyone tracking a shortlist of pages on purpose: competitive researchers, agencies watching client and rival accounts, and brand managers who want to catch a genuine hit while there's still time to react.