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John McCoy is an entrepreneur and co-founder of TikTok Titans, a platform for brands and creators on TikTok Shop. He previously built viralscan.io, used by TikTok affiliates and paying members, and has grown a database of over 100,000 TikTok creators and affiliates. He builds the AI behind his products. From Franklin Furnace, Ohio.

John McCoy is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of TikTok Titans, a platform that helps brands and creators grow on TikTok Shop. Born in 2002 in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, he started the company with his longtime friend Gage Sampson and leads its technical side.

McCoy builds the AI systems behind the company's products, including autonomous agents he engineers on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK. Before TikTok Titans he built viralscan.io, a TikTok analytics tool used by affiliates and paying members, and he has grown a database of more than 100,000 TikTok creators and affiliates. His TikTok Shop work has generated over five million dollars in GMV across its creator network, including more than one million in tracked sales in 2026 alone.

John McCoy is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of TikTok Titans, a platform that helps brands and creators grow on TikTok Shop. He was born in 2002 and grew up in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, a town of about 1,500 people, where he became close friends with his future business partner, Gage Sampson.

McCoy leads the technical side of the company and builds the AI systems behind its products, including an AI content engine and autonomous agents he engineers on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK. Before TikTok Titans he built viralscan.io, a TikTok analytics tool that affiliates and paying members used to find winning products and creators, and he grew a database of more than 100,000 TikTok creators and affiliates that became the backbone of the network he and Sampson work with today.

Across his ventures, his TikTok Shop work has generated over five million dollars in GMV through that creator network, including more than one million in tracked sales in 2026 alone. He is most useful as a source on what is actually working on TikTok Shop right now, and on what running real AI agents inside a commerce business looks like in practice.