Manor AI long-running workspace FAQ

Manor is a long-running AI business workspace. It keeps goals, company context, agents, schedules, approvals, and work history connected so recurring back-office work can continue across days and months—not restart from a blank chat each time.

Solo founders running a SaaS alone. Indie hackers shipping products without a team. Small agencies handling clients without ops staff. Property managers running portfolios without an office. If you're 1–20 people and tired of being the bottleneck for every routine task, Manor is built for you.

A business AI workspace for small business is a persistent operating layer where agents continue working from durable goals, company knowledge, connected tools, schedules, approvals, citations, and activity history over time.

Manor agents can work from connected documents and use supported tools to search company knowledge with citations, prepare drafts and reports, create follow-up tasks, and run configured recurring workflows. Available actions depend on the connected sources, supported tools, and permissions you configure.

Yes. Manor AI can generate editable PPTX slide decks from prompts, notes, Markdown, business briefs, or provided source text. Teams can use it for pitch decks, client proposals, workflow maps, business reports, launch plans, and internal updates. See the AI slide deck generator page.

Manor AI is primarily a long-running AI business workspace, though teams can build an agent for a specific job. The workspace preserves settings and results for reuse, so you do not need to set up the same job again.

ChatGPT is a general AI assistant. Manor stores sources, configuration, and results for recurring business work, and can prepare drafts or take supported connected actions subject to configured permissions and review. The right choice depends on the job and the controls a team needs.

Manor AI and n8n both help businesses automate work, but they sit at different layers. n8n is a workflow automation builder for explicit steps and integrations. Manor AI is an AI business workspace for agents, business context, reusable skills, approvals, and human-reviewed actions.

Manor AI is designed around agents, skills, and workspaces first, with future compatibility for workflow systems such as n8n. The practical goal is to keep business context, approvals, and logs in Manor while connecting to deterministic workflows where they make sense.

Start with workflows that are repetitive, high-volume, and easy to review: inbox triage, follow-up drafts, meeting summaries, lead qualification, customer support routing, document search, and weekly reports. Keep final customer-facing actions, pricing, refunds, contracts, and account changes behind human approval until the workflow is proven.

No. You can configure instructions, source material, and supported connections without writing code. Setup still depends on the tools and permissions your workflow needs, and teams should review the resulting workflow before relying on it.

Costs can include a one-time paid template purchase where applicable, plus model and tool runtime usage for a workspace. Current plans, credits, and template prices are shown in the Manor app. Self-hosted use has its own hosting and model costs. Manor Cloud starts free, then Personal at $20 a month and Pro at $49 a month. See the pricing page.

Yes. Book a free 30-minute initial AI consulting session about custom AI workspace implementation, agents, reusable skills, workflow automation, knowledge bases, approvals, and pilots for your team. You can also review the AI consulting services page.

Yes. In Manor Cloud, creators can build and test a workspace, export it as a Blueprint, connect a payout account, set a one-time price, submit the paid listing for review, and earn seller proceeds when buyers purchase it. Earnings are not guaranteed. See the Workspace Creator Marketplace.

Yes. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train models, and you can export or delete your workspace at any time. You own everything that goes in.