Meta’s AI Agent is Better Than OpenClaw (Manus AI Demo)

*Automate your work with our AI Agents Playbook:* https://clickhubspot.com/rdw Shownotes How to get your own personal game changing autonomous agent. Kipp and Kieran dive into how Meta’s newly acquired Manus AI agent quietly outpaces the hype around OpenClaw 00:00 Introduction: OpenClaw vs Manus 00:01 Why OpenClaw Is Hard & What Manus Fixes 03:00 How to Set Up Manus via Telegram 04:00 LIVE DEMO: Voice Note → Research Dashboard in Real Time 06:00 Talking Points Tool & The Anthropic Legal Story 07:00 Agentic Teams: Handing Off Tasks Between Agents 07:30 What Are AI Skills? (Matrix Analogy) 09:00 Skills Demo: SimilarWeb Analytics Skill 10:00 Building an Ad Optimizer Skill (Live) 12:00 How to Call a Skill in Telegram 13:00 Meta Integration: Paid Ad Arbitrage Analysis 14:00 Credit Costs & Targeting Strategy Breakdown 15:00 The Underrated Feature: Email Your Agent 16:00 Forwarding Deal Flow & Newsletters to Manus 17:00 Future of Manus: WhatsApp, Slack & Multi-Agent Teams 19:00 Cost Warning: Manus Is Token-Hungry (Honest Review) 20:00 Why Kipp Stopped Using ChatGPT Entirely 21:00 AI Loyalty: Nobody Sticks With One Model 22:00 Skills Are Portable — The Key Takeaway 23:00 Wrap-Up: How to Get Started Today Ep. 402 Mentions Manus ⁠https://manus.im OpenClaw ⁠https://openclaw.ai Meta ⁠https://www.meta.ai Telegram ⁠https://web.telegram.org Host Links: 📲Kipp Bodnar, https://twitter.com/kippbodnar 📲Kieran Flanagan, https://twitter.com/searchbrat ‘Marketing Against The Grain’ is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Produced by Darren Clarke. About the Show Kipp Bodnar, HubSpot’s CMO and Kieran Flanagan Hubspot's SVP of Marketing, lead you down the rabbit hole of marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation. On the way you’ll pick up undiscovered strategies to give you that slight edge for success. These are not your typical twitter thread regurgitated marketing tactics that everyone is doing. These are new methods, with unfiltered examination of successful fresh ideas.