Manus use cases
65 real things people got Manus to do, each with what they asked, how it went, and the prompt to copy.
Analyze competitor ads and generate on-brand ad creatives with Claude
An autonomous Ad Agent built on the Claude Agent SDK finds competitors, analyzes their ads, generates on-brand creatives and packages a shareable report.
Attempt to build a navigation app (did not finish)
A poster tried to build a navigation app with Manus but spent a month of credits and over 8 hours without a working app.
Book hotel rooms across booking engines
Manus was tested on 11 hotel booking engines and got through date and room selection on 8, but handed back at payment details so no booking was completed.
Build a consultancy-style deck from a vague prompt
The author had Manus Slides research sources and build a 16-slide outline on 2025 generative AI trends in UK English.
Build a full ad campaign from a client's website
An agent scraped a client's site, built a multilingual ad campaign with keywords, copy and tracking plan, and flagged a conversion problem.
Build a paid ad campaign from scraped brand and competitor data
An agent scraped a jewelry brand's site for SKUs and social media for buying patterns, analyzed competitor ads, and generated a paid campaign with image and video concepts.
Build a student survey form with Manus
Manus built a Google Form survey on undergraduates' views of AGI; the author hit a snag when asking it to fill the survey with synthesized student responses.
Build an expense and inventory tracking app
A user had Manus create an app to track their business expenses and inventory, and says it works as envisioned.
Build interactive web games from prompts
Per an influencer's tests, Manus built a role-play web game as Google's CEO in about an hour and a match-three puzzle game with tech logos.
Code a 3D plane game in the browser
A Hugging Face product head prompted Manus to build a Three.js plane-control game and got an animated 3D browser game.
Code with Manus and auto-deploy via GitHub and Vercel
A G2 reviewer uses Manus mostly for coding, pushing code to GitHub, which is linked to Vercel so work goes live on their website.
Compile journalist lists and search apartment listings
A reporter tested Manus on building a reporter list, searching NYC rentals and finding award candidates; results were thin at first, and a three-hour search yielded only three full profiles.
Create a marketing plan and deploy it as a website
A marketer had Manus produce a marketing plan with personas and HubSpot CRM steps, then build and deploy it as a website.
Create a presentation on agentic AI in retail
The author had Manus Slides research and build a deck, added a slide mid-run, and fixed some overlapping text after export.
Design a Polkadot parachain strategy game concept
An X user spent a day working with Manus on Parachain Conquest, a game mapping Polkadot parachains with cross-chain events.
Design product labels and produce SDS sheets
A seller used Manus to design product labels, turn customer testimonials into an updated file, and create SDS sheets.
Discover room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates with agents
Opus 5.5 agents were used to identify two candidate room-temperature magnetic semiconductors, per the post's headline.
Draft a film script outline, biography book and business card
A TechRadar writer compared Manus with ChatGPT on script research, a 10,000-word Adobe biography and a business card design.
Draft research by gathering many web sources
A G2 reviewer uses Manus to scrape sites, read images and gather many sources into a summary in the background, but says credits run out fast.
Email car brands without web apps and build them one
@JerryJenasom had Manus find car brands lacking a web app and email them; brands replied and he then built a web app for them.
Explore open math problems with a multi-agent system
A paper on autonomous mathematical discovery in an open-world multi-agent environment.
Extract CRM pricing and ratings into a spreadsheet
A reviewer had Manus visit the top 15 CRM sites and pull pricing tiers, free plan limits and G2 ratings into a spreadsheet; long tasks were unreliable.
Fill forms and run multi-step workflows in your own browser
A review of Manus Browser Operator, which works in the user's Chrome session with their logins for form filling and multi-page workflows.
Find discounted bank-owned homes and list them as midterm rentals
MidtermMate agent finds discounted bank-owned homes in a region, estimates local rents, and helps list them as midterm rentals, shown in a video demo.
Find outperforming YouTube videos and newsletter advertisers
Manus browsed YouTube for videos outperforming their channel size and identified 20 companies advertising in AI newsletters with contact details, then was set up for scheduled research runs.
Find Prague apartments and contact landlords
Manus browsed listings and returned five apartments, but looped and made mistakes when asked to email landlords to schedule viewings.
Find target businesses with Manus
The author tested Manus on identifying companies to target; it found specific firms and useful insights, but login barriers blocked some data and human verification was still needed.
Find weak-web-presence businesses and pitch them with personalized outreach
Six agents find businesses with weak online presence, write personalized outreach, and produce scripts, voiceovers and talking-head videos to sell web services.
Generate ads from a website URL
Arcads agents take a website URL, learn the brand, and produce ad ideas, static ads and AI UGC videos.
Generate slide decks from titles and a branded template
A reviewer had Manus find content for slide decks and produce a monthly marketing report in an uploaded PPTX template; editing tools were limited.
Generate structured company research reports
Dharmesh's Company Research agent pulls firmographics, executives, traffic, search marketing data and G2 reviews into a structured report on any company.
Generate websites, a course and a 318-page ebook
A newsletter author used Manus over three days to produce websites, interactive courses and a 318-page ebook from simple prompts.
Handle meal planning, daily briefs, errands and household tasks
Commenters use agents for weekly meal planning, daily briefs, errand tracking, email sorting, home repair load and household task organization.
Have an agent research its own competitors
A developer's custom agent searched forums and review sites, cross-referenced findings, and produced a cited 3,000-word competitor analysis with target users and an outbound playbook.
Let general-purpose agents choose and play their own games
AI Village gave agents a computer to pick games; GPT-5 spent the week on Minesweeper without winning and built a Google Sheets scoresheet to track agents.
Make an AI trends presentation
The author had Manus 1.6 Lite build a 2026 AI trends deck; research was deep but generation took over 10 minutes and slides were monotonous.
Negotiate retention discounts on bills by phone
A voice agent calls service providers, navigates IVR menus, waits on hold and negotiates retention discounts for users, pausing for OTP verification.
Produce cited research briefs with simulated peer review
Feynman multi-agent system searches papers and the web, synthesizes findings, runs simulated peer review, verifies citations, and outputs a cited brief.
Produce competitor research reports and build a landing page
A team ran a multi-source competitor research report and a working landing page build through Manus, logging output and fixes needed.
Research and compare SaaS tools and refactor Python
Reviewers had Manus find the top 10 project management tools, compare pricing in a table, and refactor a 400-line Python script that ran cleanly.
Research buying a yak
Manus navigated sites, handled pop-ups and summarized findings, but took 15 minutes, used 300 credits, and needed manual takeover when stuck.
Research dentist offices and build an outreach CRM
Manus found 40+ Los Angeles dental offices with contact details across directories, then built a CRM app with dashboard, profiles and notes.
Research hotels for a 14-day Japan trip
Manus searched Booking.com for well-rated hotels, cross-checked reviews and transit, and returned three options per city; the author rated it 7/10 on availability handling.
Research US stablecoin adoption with an agent
A Manus agent connected to Heurist's mesh ran deep research on US stablecoin adoption in 2026 after one approval step, finishing in two minutes.
Review Meta ad performance inside Ads Manager
An agency tested Manus on a real ecommerce client's Meta ads account; it reported a 14.25x ROAS against an actual 1.76x and corrected itself only when challenged.
Run a company autonomously
Andon Labs on why they built Pion, an agent designed to run any company on its own.
Run a consulting business with an AI chief of staff
A consultant uses Manus for daily briefings, competitor monitoring, inbox triage, market mapping, and making decks, reports and websites, delegated via Telegram.
Run first-pass topic research, then verify references
A commenter uses Manus for first-pass research, then has Genspark double-check every reference and flag problems.
Run systematic literature reviews with a research agent
Poster recommends a research-focused tool that does systematic review (slow but strong), adds notes to papers, and builds a research project over time.
Run varied business tasks through a general agent
Reviewers gave Manus 15 tasks including competitor analysis, itinerary, content calendar and PDF summary; most succeeded, some partial, one API integration failed.
Scrape a conference site into a searchable dashboard
In a workshop demo, a Manus agent scraped about 70 talks, extracted schedules, converted times to UTC, and built a dashboard with recommendations and calendar integration.
Script Shorts, post X threads and repurpose content
An agent scripts YouTube Shorts, posts X threads and repurposes content so the creator avoids touching a content calendar.
Send a daily AI news digest on a schedule
A Manus scheduled task searches Reddit, X and Hacker News each morning, ranks results and delivers a digest to email or Notion; a how-to guide.
Send a daily competitor ad research report to Slack
@cjfeth's Manus automation mines target avatar data, scrapes competitor ad libraries, benchmarks them and sends a report of underserved areas to Slack.
Source suppliers and negotiate deals overnight
An agent found suppliers for an online store, negotiated, handled a sample refusal, and locked in $4.50/unit for 100 pieces needing one decision from the owner.
Speed up multifamily deal research and property summaries
A multifamily broker uses AI for market research, comps analysis, property summaries and chasing property details, but not for negotiation or relationships.
Teach an agent to trade with signals and logging
@mufasadubai had Manus write a Python script using ProjectX APIs for realtime charts, set up Telegram signals and log trades to Google Sheets and CSV.
Turn a spreadsheet into a Meta ads account
Joel Jackson used the Manus agent to convert a spreadsheet directly into a Meta ads account through a native integration.
Turn lead CSVs and sales data into dashboards
Manus turned a large lead CSV into a dashboard in about 20 minutes and charted coffee shop sales data with Python, though it sometimes looped and drained credits.
Turn product photos into video ads with an ad agent
A commenter feeds product photos and audience details to an agent that drafts the script, generates b-roll, and adds voiceover; another mentions a bot organizing calendar and payments.
Turn videos and company research into slide decks
The author describes Manus watching a YouTube video to make a slide deck and researching companies for investment potential into a presentation.
Update a digital assets platform with Manus
Mufasa used Manus to review features, iterate on mockups, and generate code for a new AI automation sector in Genesis v2.0.
Write a beginner book on programming with AI
A blogger used Manus free credits to write a book on programming with AI for beginners and plans to publish it on Amazon.
Write and debug code across eight test tasks
A reviewer had Manus build a currency converter, fix a find_max bug and make a landing page, with mostly strong results.
Write Meta campaign copy as a senior copywriter
A poster had Manus act as a senior direct-response copywriter to generate ad copy for a Meta campaign.