@Darc There are a lot of solutions for followers attracting and instagram promotion. Fake bots is fake follower and may attract only fake sales
About automation (no bots but human like AI). My service, as example, connecting to promoted account like new device (i.g: your new smartphone). When it connected it starts activity in the instagram - search people who may be interested by your account and interact with them. Interact mean - like some photos, send "follow", comment photos or send direct message. When people see this activity feed he will get notice about "
@Darc is followed you". Then this people may look at you account and follow you if it interest. If it no interest - it is problem of targeting.
As example from my practice - some company working in interior design (as example bwhdesign

). This company has account in instagram (@bwhdesign) with superb photos from portfolio. But only few dozens of followers. Then this company connected to my system and my robots starting work. Robot scan few dozens of competitors (another interior design companies from same city) and retrieve all people who asking about price / qualite / time for presented portfolio examples. This scan is working every day, cause new people asking about it on the competitors pages in instagram. For all this asking people my robot send likes, direct messages, follows and comments. These people is very targeted audithory, cause asking about service (price, quality, guatrantee). After that we get crazy conversion rate. Real crazy conversion rate cause we use this method - people who asking about price is very hot lead. And we have not costs for traffic buying - competitors do it

They bought traffic to his instagram accounts and we use this for our goals
Tell me more about your bots and service as well as any traffic driving bots, not fake traffic but redirects, in applications, through email.
Any and all viable black hat methods. I am interested in social media, traffic redirect, web crawling bot armies and all viable black hat methods including programs in free apps, mentioned in the fine print.
None of this should leave traces or hurt site ranking, blacklist or effect seo. probably a series of automated connected programs and services would be best.
I am researching now to build a complex system. I am also trying to understand how to move the flaws in some systems/programs with secondary programs services and bypasses, vpns are just the obvious.
Like forum poster traffic devices, extractors and senders. How to foil spam filters with legal phishing multi-adaptive programs, legal by giving a opt out option. Direct traffic but some masking.
A system that would target those least likely to be bothered by this but are not over spammed. Buyers who are nuts about the niche. Smart auto responders and simple ai systems to keep people on site for adsense. Proper affiliate networks ''without getting banned semi-automated freelance services/partnerships. I'm learning.
That said the main product is viable honest and something I believe in, that satisfies a need, and solves a problem.
I am honest but pragmatic.
Some might say I have an interesting set of morals, but I would never cheat my customers, they get what they pay for, and often more such as in my mail order projects.
Will I cut corners with a system set up against you from the go? Use legal exploits? You bet.
You have to think smart and take the direct path, or employ bypass and tricks if needed and be smart enough to keep adapting, when things change and making them technically legal.
Otherwise, you will be mediocre from a starting point of view, or have little success at all. It takes hard work dedication, even machine like tenacity and going beyond the limit of what any normal person would do to even compete without the same resources.
Hard work is not enough you also need cunning, creativity pragmatism and guts.
That goes for most things in life...that and a willingness to learn. I have these things.