Manus

Manus is an AI agent that executes tasks instead of only answering questions. It builds slides, websites, games, designs and video, runs wide research, and works through web, mobile, desktop, Slack, email and an API.

Manus positions itself as an action engine rather than a chat assistant: instead of stopping at an answer, it carries out the task. The homepage opens with a single prompt box ("What can I do for you?") and shortcuts for common jobs such as creating slides, building a website, making games, producing video and generating designs, with a "More" menu for the rest. The product line is broad. Separate pages cover a web app builder, AI design, AI slides, game development, an image generator, a music generator, video creation, a video editor, a browser operator, Wide Research for large-scale information gathering, and Mail Manus, which suggests tasks can be started by email. A Slack integration brings the agent into team chat, and an API is listed for developers who want to call it from their own software. Apps are offered for mobile and desktop, and a desktop page mentions a "My Browser" capability. In practice, a user describes an outcome in plain language and the agent works toward it, so the effort shifts from operating many separate tools to reviewing the result. That suits founders, small teams, marketers and independent builders who want drafts of decks, sites or media without learning a specialist application for each. The site also lists a Team plan with SSO support, a startups program and a trust center, which points to use beyond individual hobbyists. Among alternatives, Manus competes with general chat assistants and with app-building agents. The site publishes comparison pages against ChatGPT, Lovable and Replit, which shows where the company sees its rivals: a general assistant on one side and prompt-to-app builders on the other. Its pitch is breadth, covering documents, code, media and research under one agent. The homepage gives no pricing figures or technical limits, so buyers should check the pricing page and the docs to judge cost, output quality and how much supervision complex jobs need.