Strawberry vs Manus

The work is slow because of who is signed in, not because the answer is hard.

Think about the job only you can do because only you are signed in.

Say it is the quarterly price check across eleven supplier portals for your ops lead. You need the current price on every line you actually buy. You need the terms you agreed back in March. All of it has to land in the sheet your ops lead negotiates from.

None of that is hidden. It sits behind eleven logins, in three PDFs you downloaded, and in a thread from March that you will search for twice.

An agent on another computer cannot see any of it until you let it in. Strawberry starts on the other side of that problem. Your AI companion opens the portals in your own browser, reads the contract files, and works through several suppliers at once. What comes back is the sheet your ops lead asked for, with a source link beside every price.

Strawberry works inside the accounts you are already signed into, so nothing has to keep a copy of your access.

Your AI companion works in the browser window open in front of you, under the eleven logins you already have. It can go where you can go, into the supplier portal, the analytics tool and the folder holding the contracts you signed in March.

Manus documents a different arrangement. On a site that needs a login, you take over its browser and log in manually. It then asks whether to save that login status, so it can reach the site on its own later. Saved sites are managed in its Cloud Browser settings.

Being the browser is why Strawberry reaches 2,000+ integrations rather than a shortlist. The sheet your ops lead negotiates from is one of them, so the output has somewhere real to go. Rows arrive in your sheet with the source linked beside each value. The supplier email sits in your inbox as a draft. The record update is prepared against the actual record, with the evidence attached.

You should be able to steer the work while it happens, not read the replay afterwards.

Watching a finished run tell you it did the wrong thing is the most expensive kind of feedback. Strawberry keeps you in the room while the work is going on.

Your AI companion works in real tabs you can watch. You can keep typing while it works, and your messages run in order. Send one ahead when it matters. Interrupt and redirect it mid-run when you see it heading the wrong way. Take a page back as an ordinary tab of your own and finish that bit yourself.

Manus documents the opposite direction of travel. It prompts you to take over when it requires assistance from you, and you can also take over its browser or VS Code yourself inside a task. In Strawberry there is nothing to take over. The browser was yours the whole time, and the pages keep working while you look at something else.

You approve anything that leaves the building, one action at a time.

Reading a supplier's price page is not the same decision as writing to that supplier.

Strawberry treats reading, drafting, sending and changing a record as four decisions.

Every connected action is set to ask, always allow, or off. Reading the portals can run unattended. Writing to a supplier can wait for you. Anything that pays an invoice can be off, and stays off.

When something needs approval you get a real editor rather than a yes or no box. You see the destination, the recipient, the full text and the attachments before any of it moves. A reply shows the address it resolved so you can correct it, and the other people on that thread are not added back without you.

Manus documents its own model for work on your local machine. Once you authorize a folder, it runs commands automatically, and only asks for confirmation on sensitive commands rather than every command. Risky operations can be scoped to the current task or the current path.

Work that repeats should run on a schedule you can audit, then belong to the team rather than to you.

Most work that matters comes back. The same price check, the same review, the same Monday, forever.

Save it once and Strawberry keeps how you like it done. The sources you trust. The way you decide what counts. The point where you want to look before it carries on. Then give it a schedule, or start it when a new email arrives. Every run records what it did and what it cost, so the quarter you did not watch is still open to inspection.

Then hand it over. Manus documents sharing a workflow as a file: package it as a skill, download a.skill file or archive, or import one from a public GitHub repository. In Strawberry you hand over the worker. An AI companion arrives with its memory, its skills and its connected accounts. Your teammate gets a colleague who already knows the eleven suppliers, not instructions for becoming one. The team workspace holds the shared files, and one credit pool covers whoever runs the check next quarter.

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