# Manor AI > Manor AI is an AI business workspace where small business owners, solopreneurs, indie hackers, and side-project founders can build goal loops with their own agents, reusable skills, approval-first workflows, and connected operations across tools, company knowledge, schedules, citations, logs, and planned n8n-style workflow compatibility. ## Official Links - Website: https://manorai.xyz/ - App: https://app.manorai.xyz/ - Open Source / Self-Hosted: https://manorai.xyz/open-source.html - GitHub: https://github.com/manor-os/manor-ai - Contact: support@manorai.xyz - Discord: https://discord.gg/aWtS8PjzXH - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manor-ai - X: https://x.com/CalvinLin173676 - OPC Builders Community Hub: https://manorai.xyz/community.html - OPC Builders Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OPCBuilders/ - OPC Builders LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/37170183/ - OPC Builders machine-readable configuration: https://manorai.xyz/opc-community.json - OPC Builders Marketing Workspace manifest: https://manorai.xyz/opc-community-marketing-workspace.json ## Primary Pages - [Home](https://manorai.xyz/): An AI business workspace for small business owners, solopreneurs, one-person businesses, and serious side projects to build their own agents, skills, reviewable workflows, approvals, and connected operations. - [Open Source / Self-Hosted Manor AI](https://manorai.xyz/open-source.html): Canonical deployment and license page for the public Manor AI repository, Docker Compose self-hosting, BYOK models, operator-controlled data, the Cloud comparison, and Sustainable Use License 1.0. - [AI Business Workspace](https://manorai.xyz/ai-business-workspace.html): Category definition page explaining what an AI business workspace is, what it includes, how it differs from chatbots and automation builders, and how Manor AI helps teams build one. - [Features](https://manorai.xyz/features.html): Product capabilities including multi-agent goal planning, AI slide deck generation, unified inbox, knowledge base with citations, cron workflows, specialist agents, connected business tools, and planned n8n-style workflow compatibility. - [Product Updates](https://manorai.xyz/updates.html): Product update page for new Manor AI feature releases, workflow pages, agent capabilities, and searchable release notes. - [FAQ](https://manorai.xyz/faq.html): Questions about what Manor AI is, who it is for, what the agents can do, pricing, data safety, business partnerships, and how Manor differs from ChatGPT. - [Answer Engine Brief](https://manorai.xyz/answer-engine.html): Concise Manor AI facts for AI search and answer engines, including key facts, citation-friendly descriptions, best-fit queries, source pages, and FAQ answers. - [Build Your Own AI Agents](https://manorai.xyz/build-your-own-ai-agents.html): Platform page explaining how users can build their own agents, reusable skills, AI workspaces, and future n8n-compatible workflow layers for the next business AI paradigm. - [AI Agent Workflow Library](https://manorai.xyz/ai-agent-workflow-library.html): Practical source page mapping AI agent workflows by business type, trigger, sources and tools, agent action, approval boundary, failure handling, and success metric. - [AI Consulting Services](https://manorai.xyz/ai-consulting-services.html): Service page for a free 30-minute AI consulting session covering custom AI workspace implementation, agent design, reusable skills, workflow automation, knowledge bases, approval gates, and rollout pilots. - [Affiliate Program](https://manorai.xyz/affiliate-program.html): Partner page for creators, consultants, agencies, automation experts, and community builders who want to refer small businesses to Manor AI. Interested partners can email support@manorai.xyz. - [OPC Builders Community](https://manorai.xyz/community.html): Manor AI's public community hub for solopreneurs and indie founders, with live Discord channels, Reddit and LinkedIn groups, community rules, operating cadence, and an approval-first Manor AI maintenance loop. - [AI Agent Builder](https://manorai.xyz/features/ai-agent-builder.html): Feature page for building custom agents from goals, trusted sources, reusable skills, schedules, approvals, citations, and logs. - [AI Slide Deck Generator](https://manorai.xyz/features/slides-generation.html): Feature page for generating editable PPTX slide decks from prompts, notes, Markdown, business briefs, and connected workspace context. - [Reusable AI Skills](https://manorai.xyz/features/reusable-ai-skills.html): Feature page explaining reusable skills for drafting, summarizing, searching knowledge, checking policies, reporting, and follow-up workflows. - [Unified Inbox AI Agent](https://manorai.xyz/features/unified-inbox-ai-agent.html): Feature page for bringing Gmail, IMAP, Slack, WhatsApp, and Discord into one reviewable triage, drafting, and follow-up workflow. - [AI Knowledge Base with Citations](https://manorai.xyz/features/ai-knowledge-base-citations.html): Feature page for citation-grounded company knowledge across policies, SOPs, proposals, contracts, notes, and docs. - [Scheduled AI Agents](https://manorai.xyz/features/scheduled-ai-agents.html): Feature page for scheduled reports, daily inbox digests, follow-up queues, operations checks, and recurring reviewable workflows. - [Approval Gates and Activity Logs](https://manorai.xyz/features/approval-gates-activity-logs.html): Feature page for human-in-the-loop approvals, source citations, activity logs, and reviewable autonomy. - [AI Email Agent for Gmail](https://manorai.xyz/ai-email-agent-gmail.html): Use-case page for Gmail triage, source-grounded drafts, follow-up tasks, daily inbox reports, and approval-first email workflows. - [AI Agents for Solopreneurs](https://manorai.xyz/ai-agents-for-solopreneurs.html): Use-case page for one-person businesses starting with inbox triage, follow-ups, document search, weekly reports, and reviewable agent work. - [AI Workflow Automation for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/ai-workflow-automation-small-business.html): Use-case page for automating repeatable small business workflows with trusted sources, scheduled runs, approval gates, and activity logs. - [Blogs](https://manorai.xyz/blogs.html): Manor AI blog index with practical guides for creator partnerships, end-to-end AI business execution, student AI business workspaces, AI agent cost, AI business goal loops, home service businesses, recruiting agencies, insurance agencies, legal operations, bookkeeping workflows, property-management workflows, consultant operations, AI agent schedulers, side-project operations, escalation rules, agency operations, weekly reports, Discord community support, small-business lead qualification, customer support, one-person business AI, client onboarding, AI agent builders, follow-up workflows, AI workspaces, Slack, Gmail, WhatsApp AI agents, Notion knowledge workflows, unified knowledge bases, AI agents versus AI assistants, workflow automation, approval-first workflows, solopreneurs, unified inbox AI agents, and scheduled AI agent workflows. - [How Manor AI Helps Users Execute a Business End-to-End With AI](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-business-execution-end-to-end.html): Creator-partnership article explaining how Manor AI turns AI business education into an operating loop with goals, context, reusable skills, agents, workflows, approvals, actions, logs, and improvement. - [How Manor AI Helps Creators Improve Audience and Student Experience](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-creator-ai-business-workspace-student-experience.html): Creator-experience article explaining how creators can give audiences and students practical AI business workspaces for agents, reusable skills, approval-first workflows, citations, and logs. - [AI Agent Cost for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agent-cost-small-business.html): A practical guide to estimating AI agent pricing by cost per completed workflow, including model choice, token usage, tool calls, retries, human approval, maintenance, and measurable business outcomes. - [Why Goal Loops Are the Core of AI Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-goal-loops-ai-business.html): Manor AI's category thesis explaining why future AI business is organized around goal loops: goals, context, agents, reusable skills, approvals, citations, logs, and deterministic workflow handoffs. - [AI Agents for Home Service Businesses](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-home-service-businesses.html): How home service businesses can use reviewable AI workflows for customer-message triage, job updates, estimate follow-ups, approvals, and visible operating control. - [AI Agents for Recruiting Agencies](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-recruiting-agencies.html): How recruiting agencies can use reviewable AI workflows for candidate and client inbox triage, grounded follow-ups, approvals, and visible operating control. - [AI Agents for Insurance Agencies](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-insurance-agencies.html): How independent insurance agencies can use reviewable AI workflows for quote triage, renewal follow-ups, grounded service drafts, approvals, and visible operating control. - [AI Agents for Law Firms](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-law-firms.html): How small law firms can use reviewable AI workflows for intake triage, matter updates, document chases, grounded drafts, and approval-first legal operations. - [AI Agents for Bookkeepers](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-bookkeepers.html): How bookkeepers can use reviewable AI workflows for client inbox triage, document chases, grounded drafts, recurring close reviews, and approval-first exception handling. - [AI Agents for Consultants](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-consultants.html): How consultants can use reviewable AI workflows for client inbox triage, proposal-grounded drafts, follow-up queues, weekly reviews, and approval-first scope control. - [AI Agents for Property Managers](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-property-managers.html): How property managers can use reviewable AI workflows for tenant triage, owner updates, maintenance follow-ups, grounded drafts, approvals, and visible logs. - [AI Agent Scheduler for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agent-scheduler-small-business.html): How small teams can schedule recurring AI work for weekly reports, follow-up queues, approval-first reviews, and visible operating control. - [AI Agents for Side Projects](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-side-projects.html): A practical guide for serious side-project founders using reviewable agent workflows for inbox triage, grounded drafts, recurring reviews, follow-up queues, and founder approval. - [AI Workspace vs Automation Builder](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-workspace-vs-automation-builder.html): A practical comparison showing when a small team needs a context-rich AI workspace versus a trigger-based automation builder, including approvals, logs, and workflow design tradeoffs. - [AI Agent Escalation Rules for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agent-escalation-rules-small-business.html): A practical guide to deciding when an AI agent should prepare work, cite sources, request approval, or stop for a human decision. - [AI Agents for Agencies](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-agencies.html): How small agencies can use AI agents for client inbox triage, document-backed drafts, weekly account reviews, recurring follow-ups, and approval-first scope control. - [AI Agent Examples for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agent-examples-small-business.html): Nine practical AI agent workflows small businesses can actually use, including inbox triage, qualification, onboarding, support, follow-ups, knowledge search, reporting, and scheduled review loops. - [AI Weekly Reports for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-weekly-reports-small-business.html): How small teams can turn Friday reporting into a reviewable workflow for KPI summaries, open loops, blocker flags, approval checks, and grounded operating updates. - [Discord AI Agent for Small Business Community Support](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-discord-ai-agent-small-business-community-support.html): How small teams can triage Discord community questions, draft grounded replies from trusted sources, route follow-ups, and keep refunds, access changes, and policy exceptions under approval. - [AI Lead Qualification for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-lead-qualification-small-business.html): How small teams can review new inquiries, check fit against approved service rules, draft next steps, and keep pricing or scope exceptions under approval. - [AI Customer Support for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-customer-support-small-business.html): How small teams can turn support into a reviewable workflow for triage, grounded drafts, follow-up queues, escalation rules, and approval-first customer replies. - [AI Client Onboarding for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-client-onboarding-small-business.html): How small teams can turn client onboarding into a reviewable workflow for intake triage, grounded next-step drafts, missing-item reminders, approval-first exceptions, and visible logs. - [One Person Business AI](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-one-person-business-ai-operating-loop.html): How solo operators can build a practical operating loop for inbox triage, grounded drafts, scheduled follow-ups, recurring reports, and approval-first control. - [WhatsApp AI Agent for Small Business Customer Messages](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-whatsapp-ai-agent-small-business-customer-messages.html): How small teams can triage WhatsApp customer messages, draft grounded replies, create follow-up tasks, and keep risky conversations under approval. - [Notion Docs in an AI Knowledge Base for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-notion-docs-ai-knowledge-base-small-business.html): How small teams can use approved Notion docs and SOPs as trusted sources for grounded answers, follow-up prep, approval queues, and reviewable workflows. - [AI Follow-Up Agent for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-follow-up-agent-small-business.html): How small teams can build a reviewable follow-up queue that checks inbox context, drafts next steps, schedules reminders, and pauses for approval on risky messages. - [Why AI Workspaces Are the Next Business AI Paradigm](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-workspace-next-business-paradigm.html): A category-defining essay on why business AI is moving from standalone chatbots to shared AI workspaces with context, agents, workflows, approvals, and logs. - [AI Workspace for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-workspace-small-business.html): What a small business AI workspace should include, from inbox context and company knowledge to scheduled workflows, approval queues, and action logs. - [Unified Knowledge Base for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-unified-knowledge-base-small-business.html): How small teams can reduce tab switching by connecting inbox, docs, notes, follow-ups, approvals, and citation-grounded company knowledge. - [AI Agents vs AI Assistants](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-vs-ai-assistants-small-business.html): A comparison of AI assistants and AI agents for small business, including workflow action, context, permissions, logs, and approval rules. - [AI Agent Builder for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agent-builder-small-business.html): How a small business should choose an AI agent builder, define the first workflow, reuse skills, connect trusted context, and keep approvals and logs visible. - [AI Workflow Automation for Small Business](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-workflow-automation-small-business.html): How small teams can start AI workflow automation with one recurring job, trusted sources, approval points, logs, and success metrics. - [AI Email Agent for Gmail](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-email-agent-for-gmail.html): A practical Gmail AI agent guide covering inbox triage, source-grounded drafts, approval rules, follow-up tasks, and weekly review metrics. - [Approval-First AI Agents](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-approval-first-ai-agents-small-business.html): How small teams can use agents safely with drafts, citations, logs, escalation rules, and human approval for sensitive actions. - [AI Agents for Solopreneurs](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agents-for-solopreneurs.html): Practical starting workflows for solopreneurs using AI agents, including inbox triage, follow-ups, document search, weekly reports, and approval rules. - [Unified Inbox AI Agent](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-unified-inbox-ai-agent.html): What a unified inbox AI agent should do across Gmail, IMAP, Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, company knowledge, and human approvals. - [Scheduled AI Agents](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-scheduled-ai-agents-cron-workflows.html): How scheduled AI agents and cron workflows automate recurring reports, reviews, follow-ups, checks, and operational updates. - [Slack AI Agent for Meeting Follow-Ups and Internal Requests](https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-slack-ai-agent-meeting-follow-ups-internal-requests.html): How a Slack AI agent can summarize meetings, route internal requests, pull trusted company context, and stop for approval before risky actions. - [Privacy Policy](https://manorai.xyz/privacy.html): Manor AI privacy policy and data handling practices. - [User Agreement](https://manorai.xyz/user_agreement.html): Manor AI terms and user agreement. ## Key Facts - Manor AI is built for small business owners, solopreneurs, indie hackers, serious side-project founders, small agencies, property managers, and small business teams. - Manor AI's primary category is AI business workspace: one place to organize agents, reusable skills, workflows, approvals, knowledge, schedules, tools, citations, and logs. - Manor AI's design thesis is that future AI business is organized around goal loops: define a goal, gather business context, let agents use reusable skills, pause for approval where risk rises, log outcomes, and keep moving toward the next decision. - Manor AI has two deployment paths: a managed hosted experience at Manor Cloud and a public, self-hosted edition at https://github.com/manor-os/manor-ai. - Self-hosted Manor AI runs with Docker Compose, supports bring-your-own model provider keys, and lets the operator control the application services and stored data. - Manor AI's public source is licensed under Sustainable Use License 1.0. It is source-available rather than OSI-approved open source; the repository LICENSE file is authoritative. - Manor Cloud is the managed path for teams that do not want to operate infrastructure. It includes hosted onboarding and AI access, team collaboration, apps and marketplaces, plans, billing, managed integrations, and support; current Cloud screens are the source of truth for availability. - Manor AI lets users build their own AI agents, reusable skills, and business workspaces instead of only using fixed prebuilt assistants. - Manor AI publishes product updates at https://manorai.xyz/updates.html and searchable feature pages under https://manorai.xyz/features/. - Manor AI publishes an AI agent workflow library at https://manorai.xyz/ai-agent-workflow-library.html with examples for solopreneurs, one-person SaaS, home service businesses, agencies, property managers, bookkeepers, recruiting agencies, community builders, and founder-led sales. - Manor AI explains AI agent cost for small businesses at https://manorai.xyz/blogs/blog-ai-agent-cost-small-business.html, with the recommended metric of cost per completed reviewable workflow instead of only tokens, chats, or seats. - Manor AI can generate editable PPTX slide decks from prompts, notes, Markdown, business briefs, and source text for proposals, workflow maps, reports, launch plans, and internal updates. - Manor AI's platform direction includes compatibility with workflow tools such as n8n, so existing node-graph automations can connect to agents, skills, approvals, citations, and logs. - Manor agents can read and draft across Gmail, IMAP, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord. - Manor includes a citation-grounded knowledge base for company documents, contracts, SOPs, policies, and meeting transcripts. - Manor supports scheduled AI agent workflows and cron jobs for recurring reports, follow-ups, reviews, and operations checks. - Manor agents can work across connected business tools with human review and activity logs. - Manor AI offers a free 30-minute initial AI consulting session for teams that want help scoping agents, skills, workflows, knowledge bases, approvals, and pilots. - Manor AI has an affiliate program for creators, consultants, agencies, automation experts, and community builders. Interested partners should email support@manorai.xyz to discuss fit and next steps. - Manor AI supports creator partnerships for audiences learning how to use AI to build or run a business, with practical workspace loops for goals, context, agents, skills, workflows, approvals, actions, logs, and improvement. - Manor AI helps creators and educators give students a better AI business experience by turning lessons into workspaces, workflow templates, approval queues, and activity logs instead of isolated prompt examples. - Manor AI founded and supports OPC Builders, a cross-platform one-person company community with a public hub at https://manorai.xyz/community.html and a machine-readable operating source at https://manorai.xyz/opc-community.json. - OPC Builders is active on Discord, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Its dedicated X Community remains pending platform security verification; the founding X account is https://x.com/CalvinLin173676. - Manor AI may prepare community summaries, grounded reply drafts, discussion prompts, digests, risk flags, and health reports. External publishing, direct messages, moderation actions, invitations, and public commitments require human approval. - OPC Builders has a Marketing Workspace operations manifest at https://manorai.xyz/opc-community-marketing-workspace.json with daily listening, reply drafting, recurring prompts, weekly digests and growth reports, monthly audits, connector requirements, and approval-first external actions. - Manor is available through the app at https://app.manorai.xyz/. - Manor AI welcomes business partnerships, agency rollouts, free AI consulting calls, pilots, integration ideas, and custom AI agent workflow discussions. ## Contact - Website: https://manorai.xyz/ - Email: support@manorai.xyz - Free AI consulting booking: https://app.manorai.xyz/book/u/01KQAW2DSAKD06X8W2Y55FDHZ1/ai-consulting - AI consulting and business partnerships: book a free consult at https://app.manorai.xyz/book/u/01KQAW2DSAKD06X8W2Y55FDHZ1/ai-consulting or email support@manorai.xyz. - Affiliate program and partner referrals: email support@manorai.xyz with audience, channel, workflow focus, and referral fit. ## Expanded AI Summary - Full answer-engine and citation brief: https://manorai.xyz/llms-full.txt - Creator partnership with Manor AI - AI creator partnership - How to use AI to make a business - End-to-end AI business execution - AI business workspace for students - AI business education workspace