Robyn Anderson shows how to use Manus, an AI agent powered by Anys, to automatically analyze your competitors' marketing strategies. The tool reviews your website, finds your closest competitors, digs into their digital footprint across sites and social media, then generates a comparative report with actionable tactics. Manus works autonomously and has a free tier.
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Welcome back to Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with AI, part 2. Today we're gonna show you how you can break down your competitor's marketing strategy using a tool called Manus. So in Manus, I put in this prompt, please review my website, and I put my URL, and then do the following: identify and list my top 3 to 5 closest competitors. For each competitor, analyze their digital footprint, website, blog, social media, ads, reviews, partnerships. From that and further marketing strategy, target audience, messaging channels, content offers, funnels, and positioning. Produce a strategic report com— comparing them with Jam AI and recommend actionable tactics I can implement to attract more customers than they do. And then I have specifics that I want in my report, and I ask for concrete examples and URLs where relevant. Anys is an agentic AI, so therefore it's out there doing research for me without me asking it to do specific things. I'll show you the results in a moment. It's free to use up to a certain amount, and I think it's a great tool that everyone should know about.