Sauna vs Manus
Manus runs a task. Sauna runs with your team.
Manus is a capable autonomous agent for one-off tasks. Sauna is a coworker you keep: it remembers your work, lives on your team's surfaces, connects to your tools, and follows up — not just a task that runs and ends.
Comparing Sauna and Manus? Manus is a capable autonomous agent for one-off tasks. Sauna is a coworker you keep — persistent memory, real tool connections, every surface, multiplayer, and approval-gated actions — not a run that ends.
Manus is an autonomous AI agent that can plan and execute multi-step tasks on the web. It's strong at one-off autonomous runs, centered on individual tasks.
The difference: A one-shot autonomous run, versus a coworker that remembers, connects, and stays.
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Built around your work.
Persistent
Remembers and follows up
Sauna keeps your context and comes back with progress, instead of starting fresh each task.
Approval-gated
Acts with your okay
It drafts and acts in your tools, and anything that writes waits for your approval.
Team
Shared, on every surface
The same Sauna for the whole team, on Slack, email, iMessage, and the web.
In context
It knows your work, and acts on it.
Sauna remembers your projects and the people in them, connects to the tools your team runs, and finishes the task — across the web app, Slack, email, iMessage, and Superhuman.
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Questions, answered.
How is Sauna different from an autonomous agent like Manus?
Sauna is a coworker you keep, not a one-off run: persistent memory, real tool connections, every surface, multiplayer, and approval-gated actions.
Does it act on its own?
It can work on a schedule and follow up, but anything that writes to a tool waits for your approval.
Is my data safe?
Sauna reads only what you connect, and acts only after you approve. Your workspace and its memory are yours, not training data.
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