Understand who you are serving and what they need.
12 workflows
A solo founder's step-by-step method for pulling cancellation reasons from Stripe, surveys and support tickets into one place, tagging them by theme, and ranking themes by how much revenue they cost.
A guide describes using an always-on OpenClaw agent to search Reddit and X for complaints about existing tools, check GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI and Product Hunt for competitors, and turn the findings into an opportunity report before starting a project.
A creator used the Hermes Agent desktop app to research another indie founder's products using her existing Grok subscription instead of the X API, then handed it a backlog of browser-tab tasks to run unattended on a schedule.
A founder-focused guide to trialing Grok for market scans, outreach drafts, document analysis and meeting recaps with a six-step test that splits public from private data and keeps human review.
Manus's own blog lists small-business workflows: researching top competitors' pricing into a dashboard, turning a rough plan into documents and a deck, and updating ClickUp, calendars and email.
A review of Manus describes goal-to-deliverable runs such as an eight-page market analysis with a price comparison in about 15 minutes, with tips for scoping tasks and the credit costs and failures to expect.
A creator ran a published content gap agent with Perplexity and Firecrawl, got a scored gap report, then discovered her local files missed 37 published posts and the real problem was distribution.
A product-management guide to cleaning feedback from tickets, interviews, surveys and reviews, then using AI prompts to find cross-source themes and rank them by impact, frequency and feasibility.
A tested version of a viral trick: group a competitor's sitemap URLs by path, ask ChatGPT for a roadmap, and see what it can and cannot tell you. The author rates it 3 out of 10.
A step-by-step tutorial that points Claude Cowork at a Substack archive, scrapes the top free posts, and returns a Word report on audience, themes, gaps and ten content ideas.
A field guide on using Claude before and after customer interviews: drafting hypothesis-testing questions, synthesising notes across calls, and role-playing a skeptical buyer.
A founder starting a new company describes using ChatGPT to answer discovery questions from interview transcripts, pull enthusiasm quotes, and draft a competitor and ecosystem table.