What people do with Manus
The general-purpose autonomous agent. 30 real use cases so far, most often for content, sales & marketing and research. Each links to its source and comes with a prompt to try.
30 use cases · 10 kinds of job · Updated Oct 5, 2026
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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.
How it went She got a deployed interactive course site and a 318-page formatted ebook, though design and branding needed polish and prompts needed review. A third test, an infographic, came out illegible even after retries.
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.
How it went Manus reported January ROAS of 14.25x and 30-day ROAS of 7.04x. When asked if it was sure, it rechecked and gave 1.76. Its advice was generic, and Skaleit rated strategic scaling 1 out of 5.
2 accounts
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.
How it went The reporter list took a little over an hour and the apartment search under half an hour. The award search ran three hours and produced only three full profiles. The 50-name list was skewed, and she gave up when the system warned about too much input.
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.
How it went The user review says the lead CSV became a clean dashboard in about 20 minutes. The sales data was processed well and charted. Error loops burned credits, and the site rates value for money 2 out of 5.
2 accounts
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.
How it went Mustar called Manus the most impressive AI tool he had tried. The article gives no technical results, game details, or limitations for this test.
2 accounts
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The best things people got an AI agent to do, each with the prompt to try it.
Manus for content
Writing, music, video, and design with agents in the loop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Manus for sales & marketing
Finding leads, running outreach, answering customers, and growing revenue.
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Manus for research
Digging through books, papers, and data, and keeping what you learn organized.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Manus for work
Planning, inboxes, documents, and the back office that runs a business.
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
Manus for games
Agents that play, build, and test games.
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
Also used for
Travel 2 · Money 1 · Life admin 1 · Shopping 1 · Software 1
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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