Send a daily competitor ad research report to Slack
From the linked report, the Manus agent runs daily in the background. It mines data from target avatar locations, segments findings into angles, concepts, failures and awareness maps, scrapes competitors’ ad libraries for text and headlines, benchmarks against the mined data to spot underserved areas, compiles a master report and posts it to Slack. It automates research and idea delivery to creative strategists, increasing their output.
- Agent or tool
- Manus
- Topic
- Research & Data
- Reported on
- X
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Research is mostly gathering, cleaning and comparing. Handing that groundwork to an agent leaves the person with the part that needs judgment: deciding what the findings mean. It is one of 67 sightings filed under Research & Data on Agent Sightings (number 65 by interest), and one of 22 involving Manus.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Manus or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Research brief: send a daily competitor ad research report to Slack. Prefer primary sources, include links and confidence notes, and do not contact anyone.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on X: https://x.com/cjfeth/status/2034220127042834715. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.