Kavela vs Manus
Manus takes one goal, writes a plan you can watch, and fans it out to sub-agents that each get their own machine and a blank context, then hands you the finished report or deck. Kavela gives you a standing team: Kav, your project manager, sixteen specialists with playbooks and run histories, one file system they all work in, and a short queue of decisions waiting on you. Both put agents on real computers. The difference is whether you get a job finished or a team that keeps going.
What Manus is good at
- One prompt in, a plan you can watch update, and a finished report, deck or spreadsheet at the end.
- Fanning a wide research job across many machines at once, so a hundred sources take about as long as one.
- Real browsers, real terminals and real files, so it does the work itself.
Where Kavela works differently
- Sixteen specialists arrive with the workspace and stay. Each has a name, a role, a playbook and a run history you can open and read before you trust it with anything.
- Kav holds the goal. You say what you want done; Kav splits it, picks who runs each step, chases them, and brings the finished thing back for one tap.
- The whole team reads and writes one workspace file system, so Tuesday starts from Monday's output and a month of work adds up to something you can open.
- A computer switches on for a job and switches off after it, so what you spend follows the work rather than the clock.
- Correct something once and that is how your team works from then on. Your company context lives in readable files that stay in sync across every agent.
- Teach it a thousand niche workflows and the right one loads itself at the moment it is needed. Retrieval holds at 100% under two hundred skills.
- Credentials sit in a vault with rules about what each agent may do with each one, released for a single step and locked again after.
- Six kinds of approval, answered from Telegram or Slack, each one carrying the finished work so you decide from wherever you are.
- Ask Kav on Telegram for today's jobs, start a few, and have the files sent back to you in the same chat.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Manus if
You have a big one-off job, you want it fanned across a lot of machines at once, and a finished document at the end is the whole point.
Pick Kavela if
You want a team that stays. Files, corrections and run history carry from one job to the next, and your day is spent approving outcomes.
Build an agentThe fastest way to settle this
Reading about a team takes longer than having one. Open a workspace on the free plan, tell Kav what you want done this week, and watch which specialists it puts on the job and what comes back. Ten minutes settles what a comparison page can only argue about.